April 30 in Tigers and mlb history:
1903: The Detroit Tigers signed Billy Lush as a free agent.
1904: The Detroit Tigers purchased Bobby Lowe from the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1906: Ty Cobb goes 2-for-4 with a key double in the 10th: Tigers win 2-1 in Chicago.
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1922: Charlie Robertson of the Chicago White Sox pitches a 2 - 0 perfect game against the Detroit Tigers.
1923: The New York Yankees signed Lou Gehrig as a free agent.
1936: The St. Louis Browns traded Jack Burns to the Detroit Tigers for Chief Hogsett.
1939: Charlie Gehringer hits a grand slam & Hank Greenberg hits 2 doubles in a 14-1 home win over Cleveland.
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1942: Tigers sell Schoolboy Rowe to the Dodgers after 10 seasons with the team.
Rowe pitched in two World Series. He tied the league record for consecutive wins with 16 in 1934.
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1945: Tigers trade for Roy Cullenbine. He will start in right field the rest of the season and help the Tigers win their second world championship. Cullenbine still holds the major league record for consecutive games drawing a walk as a batter, with 22 in 1947. Scouted for the Tigers in the 50s. Attended Al Kaline's number retirement as a previous wearer of #6. Cullenbine holds the Tigers franchise record for walks in a season, with 137 that year.
His career .408 OBP is 38th all-time, ahead of multiple Hall of Famers including Honus Wagner, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays, & Hank Aaron.
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1946: Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians strikes out 11 and pitches his second of three career no-hitters, his first since returning from a three-and-a-half year stint in World War II. Feller defeats the New York Yankees, 1 - 0.
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1952: Ted Williams plays his final game before leaving for military duty in Korea. In his last at-bat on "Ted Williams Day" at Fenway Park, he blasts a game-winning, two-run home run against Dizzy Trout of the Detroit Tigers. The home run gives the Red Sox a 5 - 3 victory.
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1957: The Detroit Tigers traded Jack Phillips to the Boston Red Sox for Karl Olson.
1958: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox becomes the tenth major league player to tally 1,000 extra-base hits in the 10 - 4 loss to the Kansas City Athletics at Fenway Park.
1961: Game 1: Tigers 8 - Orioles 2. Tigers score 3 in the 7th inning & 5 in the 8th. Steve Boros goes 3-for-3 with a walk. Don Mossi strikes out 7 in 5 innings. 2nd straight win: Tigers are 10-3, up 1 game in AL.
1961: Game 2: Orioles 4 - Tigers 2. Norm Cash goes 2-for-3 with a home run. Tigers are 10-4, up 1 game in AL #60thof61 #101in61
1961: Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hits four home runs against the Milwaukee Braves in the Giants' 14 - 4 victory at County Stadium.
1967: Steve Barber and Stu Miller of the Baltimore Orioles combine on a no-hitter, but still lose the game to the Detroit Tigers, 2 - 1. A wild Barber gives up 10 walks in eight and one-third innings before giving way to Miller, who pitches one-third of an inning. Tigers become the first team in American League history to win a game without a hit.
1968: A 3-run homer by Ramon Webster in the top of the first is Tigers' starter Earl Wilson's only mistake: Tigers lose 3-1 to the athletics.
1969: Jim Maloney of the Cincinnati Reds strikes out 13 en route to a 10 - 0 no-hitter over the Houston Astros at Crosley Field. Bobby Tolan has four RBI in support of Maloney, who records his second career no-hitter after pitching a ten-inning masterpiece against the Cubs in 1965.
1970: Chicago Cubs outfielder Billy Williams becomes the first player in National League history to play 1,000 consecutive games in the 9 - 2 loss to the Atlanta Braves at Fulton County Stadium.
1984: Tigers finish April with a record of 18-2: they could go .500 the rest of the season and finish with 88 wins.
1987: Matt Nokes hits a grand slam and Dave Bergman hits a 2-run home run to power the Tigers to a 12-4 win in Anaheim. The Tigers finish the month 9-12, a shaky start to their '87 campaign.
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1988: Tigers beat the Mariners 4-3 on a walk-off single by Alan Trammell that scores Tom Brookens in the bottom of the 12th inning.
1991: Lou Whitaker goes 3-for-3 with a home run and a walk, and Rob Deer hits a grand slam, as the Tigers win 13-7 in Kansas City.
1994: The Pittsburgh Pirates purchased Lance Parrish from the Detroit Tigers.
1994: Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Joe Carter finishes April with 31 RBI to set a major league record for the month. Colorado Rockies first baseman Andres Galarraga finishes with 30 RBI to set a National League record.
1997: Tino Martinez, who got off to a painfully slow start with the Yankees last season, finishes April with 34 RBI to set a major league record for the month.
2000: Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks defeats the Chicago Cubs, 6 - 0, as he becomes only the third pitcher in major league history to win six games in April.
2005: The Detroit Tigers signed Gorkys Hernandez as an amateur free agent.
2005: Major league players are asked by Commissioner Bud Selig to agree to a 50-game suspension for the first offense, a 100-game suspension for the second offense and a lifelong ban after the third offense for the use of steroids. In addition to the harsher "three-strike" rule, the commissioner is also seeking a ban on amphetamines.
2006 The Tigers win 6-0 to complete a sweep in which they outscored the Twins 33-1. Marcus Thames hits a 2-run home run & Vance Wilson hits a bases-loaded double. Kenny Rogers holds the Twins to 2 hits over 8 innings.
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2008: The Detroit Tigers traded Jason Grilli to the Colorado Rockies for Zach Simons (minors).
2010: Scott Sizemore and Brennan Boesch both hit their first major league home run in the 4th inning as Detroit beats the Angels, 10 - 6. Another rookie, Austin Jackson, goes 5 for 5 for Detroit. Sizemore's dinger follows one by Gerald Laird, while Boesch's is a grand slam during the 8-run inning.
2011: Former Negro Leagues infielder Emilio Navarro dies at 105 in his native Puerto Rico. He was the oldest living professional baseball player at the time of his death.
2011: Miguel Cabrera hits a homer and a double, and receives 2 intentional walks, but Tigers lose in 13 innings to the indians 3 - 2.
2014: The Dodgers win the 10,000th game in franchise history when they defeat the Twins, 6 - 4, in an interleague game.
2019: Niko Goodrum hits a 2-run home run and Spencer Turnbull scatters 3 hits over 6 innings in a 3-1 win in Philadelphia.
2019: CC Sabathia becomes the 17th pitcher to reach 3,000 strikeouts as he fans John Ryan Murphy in the 2nd inning of a 3 - 1 loss to the Diamondbacks. He's just the third lefthander to reach the total, and the first pitcher since 2008 to do so. Justin Verlander will also join the exclusive club before the end of the season.
2020: The latest event to be cancelled due to the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic is the annual Little League World Series. This is the first cancellation in the event's history, dating back to 1947. The MLB Little League Classic, which was slated to be held in conjunction with the international youth fest, is also cancelled for this year.
2022: Clayton Kershaw becomes the Dodgers all-time franchise leader for strikeouts when he fans Spencer Torkelson of the Tigers in the 4th inning. With 2,697 strikeouts, he moved past Hall of Famer Don Sutton. Overall, he strikes out 7 in 6 innings to reach the round total of 2,700.
2-023: The
Detroit Tigers signed
Sam Clay as a free agent.
Tigers players and managers birthdays:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Chet Laabs. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Chet Laabs 1937-1939.
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Phil Garner manager 2000-2002.
Tigers players who passed away:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Chick Gagnon. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Chick Gagnon 1922.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Herman Pillette. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Herman Pillette 1922-1924.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Elam Vangilder. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Elam Vangilder 1928-1929.
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