September 4 in Tigers and mlb history:
1907: For his 32nd birthday tomorrow, Cleveland fans give manager Nap Lajoie a wagon-load of gifts, including a live black sheep. Addie Joss pitches a one-hitter against Detroit.
1908: In New York, Walter Johnson opens a series against New York by besting Jack Chesbro, 3 - 0, allowing six hits in the Washington win.
1912: Providence (International) purchased Ralph Works from the Detroit Tigers.
1913: Providence (International) purchased Lou North from the Detroit Tigers.
1913: Cleveland lefty Vean Gregg strikes out Ty Cobb three times in a row, but Cobb doubles in the winning run in the 12th.
1916: In Detroit, the Coveleski brothers appear together in the same game for the only time in their careers. Stan starts for the Indians and gets knocked out in Detroit's 5-run first inning. Harry relieves later on in the game as Detroit wins 7 - 5.
1916: Reds player-manager Christy Mathewson, pitching his only game not in a Giant uniform, beats his long-time nemesis Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown and the Cubs, 10 - 8. In the 25 contests in which the two legends have faced one another, Matty, by winning the last decision, takes a 13-12 advantage in their final meeting.
1922: At the start of the day, both New York teams are on top, and both Boston teams are on the bottom. But today, the Red Sox take two and knock the leaders off their perch as they sweep the Yankees, 4 - 3 and 6 - 5. Babe Ruth hits his last regular-season home run in the Polo Grounds. He gets it off Herb Pennock, who also gave up Ruth's first Yankee homer, also at the Polo Grounds.
1930: Rogers Hornsby returns to the Chicago lineup as the Cubs beat the Pirates. Hornsby had been absent since Memorial Day because of a broken ankle.
1935: Babe Ruth receives a lifetime pass for all National League games from NL President Ford Frick.
1945: Long-time Yankee batting practice pitcher Paul Schreiber, who last pitched in the majors in 1923 and the minors in 1931, relieves for the Yankees against Detroit in a Tiger rout. Schreiber gives up no hits in 3 1/3 innings, but the Tigers' Dizzy Trout wins 10 - 0.
1951: George "Sparky" Anderson hits an RBI double in the American Legion World Series at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium.
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1961: Mickey Mantle misses the Labor Day doubleheader with a painful and swollen forearm, but the Yanks don't need him as they sweep a pair from the Senators, 5 - 3 and 3 - 2. The sweep moves the Yanks six games up on the slumping Tigers, who lose, 6 - 3, to the Orioles and trail, 4 - 1, in a game that is suspended. Mantle's replacement, Johnny Blanchard, breaks a 3 - 3 tie in the opener with an 8th-inning homer.
1969: the Orioles lead off the 9th inning with 3 straight home runs, by Frank Robinson, Boog Powell, & Brooks Robinson, to rally to beat the Tigers and widen their division lead over Detroit to 13.5 games.
1979: Norman "Turkey" Stearnes dies at age 79 in Detroit. Here he is at Tiger Stadium months before his death. The Detroit Stars legend was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000.
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1981: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later to the Minnesota Twins for Ron Jackson. The Detroit Tigers sent Tim Corcoran (September 4, 1981) to the Minnesota Twins to complete the trade.
1986: Hank Greenberg dies at age 75 in Beverly Hills, California.
Greenberg is still the Tigers franchise leader in slugging percentage (.616) and OPS (1,028), and holds the team's season records for home runs, RBIs, doubles, and extra base hits.
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1987: Doyle Alexander celebrated turning 37 with his 4th straight win as a Tiger, as the offense roared to an 11-2 win in Texas. A toronto win kept the Tigers? AL East lead over the Jays at 1.5 games.
1989: Fred Lynn hits his 300th career home run to help the Tigers to a 5 - 1 win over Kansas City.
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1991: Removing an asterisk which really never existed, the Statistical Accuracy Committee decides to put Roger Maris' 1961 home run season ahead of Babe Ruth's 60 mark instead of listing it separately as it was from 1962 until this year.
The eight-man panel also re-defines a no-hit game as one which ends after 9 or more innings with one team failing to get a hit, thereby removing 50 games from the list that had previously been considered hitless, including the 1959 performance of Harvey Haddix's 12 perfect innings against the Braves and Jim Maloney's 1965 1 - 0 loss to the Mets in 11 innings.
2011: The Tigers crush the White Sox, 18 - 2, behind Max Scherzer. Miguel Cabrera homers and drives in 4 runs, while Alex Avila has 4 hits. Over the last two days, the Tigers scored 26 unanswered runs against Chicago, coming back from 8 - 1 down yesterday to win, 9 - 8, then taking an 18 - 0 lead today before surrendering two 9th-inning runs.
2014: Battling to stay alive in the AL Central, the Indians suffer a demoralizing loss after they rally from a 4 - 0 1st-inning deficit against defending Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer of the Tigers. They manage to force extra innings, but everything goes wrong in the 11th, when they allow 7 runs to lose, 11 - 4. It's their second straight crushing loss to the Tigers, after closer Cody Allen gave up a three-run, 9th-inning homer to J.D. Martinez in a 4 - 2 loss yesterday.
2017: J.D. Martinez of the Diamondbacks becomes the 18th player in major league history - and second this season after Scooter Gennett - to hit four homers in one game. He connects for a two-run shot off Rich Hill in the 4th, solo homers off Pedro Baez and Josh Fields in the 7th and 8th, respectively, and a two-run blast off Wilmer Font in the 9th to tie the record. Arizona defeats Los Angeles, 13 - 0 for its 11th straight win, while the Dodgers have lost 9 of their last 10.
2018: Several sources report that a severe fight breaks out between the two main members of the Tigers' television broadcast team, Mario Impemba and Rod Allen, at the end of tonight's game. The two have been working together for 17 years and it is not clear what caused the altercation. Both will be let go as the result of this incident.
Tigers players birthdays:
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John Terry 1902.
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Red Corriden 1912.
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Paul Jata 1972.
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Doyle Alexander 1987-1989.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Red Killefer 1907-1909.
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Clyde Manion 1920-1924, 1926-1927.
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Norman Turkey Stearnes Detroit Stars Negro Leagues 1923-1931, 1937.
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Hank Greenberg 1930, 1933-1941, 1945-1946.
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