Go Greene! Riley goes deep twice as Tigers claim series.
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Video Highlights of the Tigers come from behind win over the rays.

Tigers 4 - Rays 2: Another Cardiac Cats comeback victory.
It was a tight tilt tonight at the Trop, but a pair of late homers put the Detroiters over the top.
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'It's a special team': Tigers' Greene slugs two homers to beat Rays.
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Riley Greene powers Detroit Tigers to 4-2 win over Tampa Bay Rays with two home runs.
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Riley Greene homers twice to lead Tigers to win over Rays.
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April 24 in Tigers and mlb history:

1750: John Trumbull born in Watertown, Conn. Namesake of Trumbull Ave. in Detroit.
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1898: Andy Cooper is born in Waco, Texas. The Hall of Famer pitched for the Detroit Stars from 1920-1927.

1901: Three rain postponements give Chicago the honor of hosting the first game in American League history.
The first official game in American League history is played! The Chicago White Sox (pictured) defeat the Cleveland Blues (Guardians), 8-2 at the Chicago Cricket Club!
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1911: The Battle Creek Crickets of the Southern Michigan League turn two triple plays in the first two innings of today's game.

1923: Babe Ruth shakes hands with President Warren G. Harding before a Washington Senators vs. New York #Yankees game at Yankee Stadium. The Babe didn't disappoint, hitting his 2nd HR of the season!
U.S. President Warren G. Harding witnesses the first shutout ever thrown at Yankee Stadium as Babe Ruth hits a home run in New York's 4 - 0 victory over the Senators.
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1926: Unfazed by Forbes Field's ample dimensions, St. Louis Cardinals player-manager Rogers Hornsby leads by example, slugging his team to a 9 - 3 thrashing of the Pittsburgh Pirates. 3 for 3 with a single, double, sacrifice fly and home run good for 5 RBI, the Rajah's exploits are documented by Lou Wollen of the Pittsburgh Press: "Manager Rogers Hornsby is an ideal leader. Not only does he pilot the Cardinals in expert fashion, getting all the baseball possible out of his players, but he shows them on the ball field how the game should be played.

1929: The Detroit Tigers lineup for the National Anthem during Opening Day festivities at Navin Field.
The Tigers were led by Hall of Famer Harry Heilmann who went 3-4, HR, 3 RBI. (Tigers 7, Indians 6).
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1931: Three days before his 35th birthday, Chicago's player-manager Rogers Hornsby is again undaunted by Forbes Field's forbidding expanse. Hornsby hits three consecutive home runs to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 10 - 6. This is the final season in which Hornsby will allot himself significant playing time ? 357 at-bats in 100 games.
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1933: Tigers sell pitcher George Uhle to Giants.

1934: Under new manager Mickey Cochrane, the Tigers score 6 runs in the 6th inning to beat the White Sox 7-2 on Opening Day. Hank Greenberg has a double and 2 stolen bases. Beer sales resume at Navin Field after the repeal of Prohibition.

1934: New York Yankees star Babe Ruth meets Gertrude Musier at Yankee Stadium. The 19-year-old NYC woman recently regained her eyesight after being blind since she was stricken with infantile paralysis at the age of four!
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1945: Happy Chandler becomes the second baseball commissioner. The major league owners unanimously elect the former governor of Kentucky on the first ballot and reward him with a seven-year contract. Chandler succeeds Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the game's first commissioner, who died in 1944.

1946: Former major leaguers Jesse Burkett, Frank Chance, Jack Chesbro, Johnny Evers, Clark Griffith, Tommy McCarthy, Joe McGinnity, Eddie Plank, Joe Tinker, Rube Waddell and Ed Walsh are inducted into the Hall of Fame.

1947: Johnny Mize of the New York Giants becomes the first major leaguer to hit three home runs in a game on five different occasions. Mize hits his trio off Johnny Sain of the Boston Braves, but in spite of his barrage, the Giants lose to the Braves, 14 - 5.

1956: American League umpire Frank Umont is the first to wear glasses in a regular-season game when he officiates a contest between the Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Athletics. A former NFL tackle for the New York Giants, Umont still presents an intimidating appearance to most players and fans.
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1961: Tigers 4 - Yankees 3. Norm Cash finishes 2-for-2 with a home run & 2 walks. Steve Boros goes 3-for-4 with a double & 2 RBIs. Frank Lary: 7H, 2 ER in a complete game. 8th straight win: Tigers are 8-1, up 0.5 game in AL.

1962: Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers strikes out 18 Chicago Cubs in a 10 - 2 victory at Wrigley Field.
Koufax ties the record of 18 strikeouts in a single game, matching the mark set by Bob Feller with the Cleveland Indians.

1964: Mickey Lolich pitches his first career shutout, a 3-hitter. Jerry Lumpe has 3 hits and 3 rbi for the Tigers.

1965: Casey Stengel records his 1,900th victory as a manager as the Mets beat the Giants, 7 - 6.

1968: Cleveland's Steve Hargan holds the Tigers to one hit for their 2nd loss of the season.

1978: Nolan Ryan of the California Angels strikes out 15 batters for the 20th time in his career, but leaves in the 9th inning without a decision.

1978: Mark Fidrych returns to the cover of Sports Illustrated.
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1982: Larry Herndon's 3-run home run off Doyle Alexander breaks the game open in a 7-2 win at Yankee Stadium. Herndon would go on to a career-high 23 home runs in his first season with the #Tigers and lead the team with 179 hits.
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1983: Glenn Wilson hits a home run and a double in the #Tigers' 4-2 win over the Mariners.

1984: Tigers sweep doubleheader vs the Twins to improve to 14-1. Tigers rally from 2 runs down in the 9th in Game 1.
Game 2: Tigers beat Twins 4-3 on a Lance Parrish 3-run HR to sweep doubleheader.
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1989: Doyle Alexander pitches a complete game shutout. Tory Lovullo's sac fly in the bottom of the 7th is the game's only run in the Tigers' win over Seattle.

1993: Travis Fryman goes 4-for-6 with 2 doubles and John Doherty scatters 5 hits over 7 scoreless innings in a 17-1 rout of the Twins at the Metrodome.
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1994: Julio Franco and Robin Ventura hit back-to-back home runs twice in the same game, but Tigers win 7-6 with a home run and 4 rbi by Cecil Fielder.

1995: The Detroit Tigers signed Scott Fletcher as a free agent.

1995: The New York Mets selected Brian Edmondson off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

1996: Greg Myers and Paul Molitor each have five RBI as the Minnesota Twins set a team record for runs and rout the Detroit Tigers, 24 - 11. It is the highest run total against the Tigers in 84 years, matching the mark set in a 24 - 2 loss to the Philadelphia Athletics on May 18, 1912, in a game in which Detroit did not have its regulars due to a players' strike.
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1998: The Detroit Tigers selected Jeff Manto off waivers from the Cleveland Indians.

2001 - The American League celebrates its 100th anniversary as a major league.

2004: Tigers beat Cleveland 5-2 on a walk-off 3-run home run by Rondell White.
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2008: Magglio Ord??ez hits 2 home runs, and Curtis Granderson, Brandon Inge, and Ryan Raburn also go deep in an 8-2 win at home against Texas.
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2009: The Detroit Tigers signed Angel Nesbitt as an amateur free agent.

2010: Tigers win on back-to-back RBI hits by Magglio Ordonez and Miguel Cabrera, Brennan Boesch, 8-4 over Texas. Eddie Bonine holds the Rangers to one hit in 3 scoreless innings of relief to get the win.

2011: Max Scherzer strikes out 7 and holds the White Sox to 4 hits over 8 innings. The #Tigers get back-to-back RBI doubles from Brandon Inge and Austin Jackson and win 3-0.
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2013: Miguel Cabrera goes 2-for-3 with a double and a sac fly in the Tigers' 7-5 win over the Royals.
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2014: Max Scherzer strikes out 10 in 6 innings, and Rajai Davis hits a home run and an RBI double in the Tigers' 7-4 win over the White Sox.

2019: The Detroit Tigers released Eduardo Paredes.

2019 Brandon Dixon hits a bases-loaded double, one of his 3 hits in a 4-2 win in Boston. Tigers improve to 12-10.
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Tigers and Detroit Stars players and coaches birthdays:

Howard Ehmke 1916-1917, 1919-1922.

Andy Cooper Detroit Stars Negro Leagues 1920-1927.

Bill Krueger 1993-1994.

Todd Jones 1997-2001, 2006-2008.

Mick Billmeyer coach 2014-2017.

Omar Vizquel coach 2014-2017.

Willi Castro 2019-2022.

Tigers players who passed away:

Dennis Ribant 1968.

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WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY.
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Detroit Tigers’ new tv broadcaster, Jason Benetti, has now had the chance to work with all of the designated color commentary associates. That list includes Kirk Gibson, Todd Jones, Craig Monroe (C-Mo), Carlos Pena and Dan Petry.

Monroe was named as the primary partner for the tv broadcasts but considering that he and Benetti have not worked together formally until the season started, Bally Sports Detroit and the Tigers could potentially change things up next year depending upon their chemistry.

It’s unlikely that Gibson and Jones would get that job which leaves Monroe, Pena and Petry as potential partners with Benetti for next year.

Based upon what you’ve seen and heard, which of these candidates deserves to be the primary tv partner to Benetti?

Which former Tiger deserves to be the primary tv partner of Jason Benetti?

1. Craig Monroe

2. Carlos Pena

3. Dan Petry

VOTE

Discipline is the basis for a major breakout for Riley Greene this season.
Greene is focused on driving the ball in the air and being more selective in what he swings at.
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It's an honor to wear No. 18 as a Japanese-born pitcher. Johnny Kane BSD talked to the right-hander about carrying the special honor with the Tigers.

"To be really good at anything you have to practice at it a lot. Having older brothers…guided me to be the best I could be."Jake Rogers credits his family for not only making him a better baseball player, but a better person.

Florida man becoming the breakout star of the upstart Detroit Tigers.
Central Florida native and Tigers breakout star Riley Greene was key to Detroit's comeback victory
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Former Tigers reliever adds 9th team to his MLB resume.
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7 early breakout stars nobody saw coming.
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Tigers’ Ryan Kreidler Undergoes Finger Surgery.
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Tigers 5 - Rays 7: Tigers drop series closer.
The Rays eked out a win in the last game of the series.
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Tigers fail to sweep Rays, drop rare game with lead in sixth inning.
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Detroit Tigers rally, but miss out on sweep of Tampa Bay Rays with 7-5 loss.
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Tigers lose lead and can’t grab it back in series-ending loss to Rays.
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April 25 in Tigers and mlb history:

1901: At Bennett Park, the Detroit Tigers make an incredible comeback in their American League debut. Trailing 13 - 4 in the bottom of the 9th inning, the Tigers score 10 runs in their last at-bat to defeat the visiting Milwaukee Brewers, 14 - 13.
Frank Dillon drives in the game-winning run with a double, his fourth of the game. Dillon's four doubles is an opening day record that will be matched in 1954. It remains the greatest 9th-inning comeback in major league history.
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1904: New York Highlanders pitcher Jack Chesbro posts the first of his 41 wins on the season, an American League record that still stands.
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1916: At the Polo Grounds, Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox pitches a 10-inning complete game to defeat the Yankees, 4 - 3. Ruth gives up two earned runs on eight hits, but is hitless at the plate.

1922: In a 5 - 3 win over Detroit, Ken Williams of the St. Louis Browns hits his sixth home run in four days, off Howard Ehmke, tying Babe Ruth's 1921 feat. Williams will take the American League home run and RBI titles and become the first 30-30 man in major league history, with 39 home runs and 37 stolen bases.

1932: Mission (PCL) purchased Mark Koenig from the Detroit Tigers.

1938: 1,988 showed up at Sportsman Park to watch the Tigers demolish the Browns, 10-1.

1939: Dizzy Trout, star pitcher for the World War II Tigers, makes his debut in the major leagues.

1948: Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians ties a major league record by striking out five times in the Indians' 7 - 4 victory over Detroit

1957: The major leagues adopt a new rule that prohibits baserunners from interfering with batted balls in the field of play. The rule is adopted in reaction to recent actions by several Cincinnati Redlegs baserunners. Earlier in the week, Don Hoak and Johnny Temple had intentionally interfered with batted balls as a way of preventing double plays.

1961: Two weeks after the Boston Celtics win the NBA championship, their reserve center, Gene Conley, pitching for the Boston Red Sox, gets his first American League victory, a 6 - 1 win over the visiting Washington Senators.

1962: Catcher Harry Chiti is traded for himself when the Cleveland Indians send him to the New York Mets in exchange for a player to be named later. On June 15th, the Mets will sell Chiti back to Cleveland to complete the deal.

1967: Whitey Ford of the New York Yankees earns his final major league victory. His 236th win comes against the Chicago White Sox, an 11 - 2 decision at Yankee Stadium. Ford will enter the Hall of Fame in 1974.

1970: Earl Wilson of the Tigers does something rare: he reaches third base on a dropped third strike. After he whiffs, the Twins entire team pulls a Josh Paul and starts trotting off the field, so Detroit's third base coach tells Wilson to run.

1970: For the 7th time in his career (and the second time this week), Willie Stargell homers over Forbes Field's right field roof, a two-out, two-run blast which erases a one-run deficit and provides the final margin of victory as the Bucs beat Atlanta, 8 - 7, in a barn-burner featuring 8 doubles, one triple and 2 tape measure home runs.

1976: Chicago Cubs centerfielder Rick Monday rescues an American flag from two spectators who try to set it on fire in the outfield of Dodger Stadium. The incident happened in the 4th inning of a 5 - 4, 10-inning loss to Los Angeles.

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1984: The Detroit Tigers signed Butch Benton as a free agent.

1984: Tigers beat the Rangers 9-4 on home runs by Johnny Grubb, Howard Johnson, & Lance Parrish. Parrish?s 3-run home run kicks off a 5-run 7th inning. Willie Hernandez notches a 3-inning save. & Tigers improve to 15-1.
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1986: The Detroit Tigers signed Brian Harper as a free agent.
1986: The Detroit Tigers signed Pat Sheridan as a free agent.

1987: Billy Bean becomes the 10th player to get 4 hits in his major league debut: 2 doubles & 2 singles. Tigers get home runs from Alan Trammell, Darrell Evans, Dave Bergman, and Tom Brookens in a 13-2 blowout of the Royals.
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1990: Tony Phillips celebrated turning 31 by leading off the game with a triple in the Metrodome. It was the beginning of a 3-run rally. The Tigers would go on to win 6-4.

1993: Trailing 5-1, the Tigers unleash an 8-run 7th inning and a 7-run 8th inning to clobber the Twins 16-5 at the Metrodome. Chad Kreuter & Tony Phillips hit back-to-back home runs in the 7th. Milt Cuyler hits a 3-run double in the 8th.
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1995: Major League Baseball returns after a 257-day layoff as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Florida Marlins, 8 - 7. Players had gone on strike the previous August.

1997: Ken Griffey, Jr. of the Seattle Mariners hits three home runs in a 13 - 8 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. The three homers give Griffey a major league-leading 13 on the year, and a major-league record for the month of April. The first two dingers come off Roger Clemens and the third, hit off Mike Timlin, is the 250th of Griffey's career. He also had a three-homer game in May of last year.

2001: Rickey Henderson of the San Diego Padres sets a major league record with his 2,063rd base on balls in San Diego's 5 - 3 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. The mark had been held by Babe Ruth.

2005: Tigers are snowed out in Detroit for the second straight day.
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2009: The Detroit Tigers released Scott Williamson.

2013: The Miami Marlins selected Duane Below off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

2014: Tigers score 7 runs in the 3rd inning, on 5 RBI singles and a bases-loaded walk, in a 10-6 win over the Twins.

2016: Miguel Cabrera goes 4-for-4 with two home runs and a double in the Tigers' 7-3 win over the A's.

2017: Tigers score 19 runs, their highest single-game output since 2008, including 9 runs in the 5th inning and beat the mariners 19 - 9.


2018: Leonys Martin homers in each game of a doubleheader vs. the pirates. Tigers win 13-10 & lose 8-3.

2018: 20-year-old Ronald Acuna, the 2017 Minor League Player of the Year according to Baseball America, makes his debut as the youngest player in the majors now that his eligibility for salary arbitration has been pushed back by a year after the Braves delayed his call-up. His first major league hit comes in the 8th inning, and he soon comes in to score the winning run in a 5 - 4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.

Tigers players birthdays:

Fred Haney 1922-1925.

Woody Davis 1938.

Larry Pashnick 1982-1983.

Tony Phillips 1990-1994.

Jacque Jones 2008.

Daniel Norris 2015-2021.

Tigers players and Detroit Wolverines N.L. players who passed away:

Tony Mullane Detroit Wolverines N.L. 1881.

Jack Rowe Detroit Wolverines N.L. 1886-1888.

Bob Hazle 1958.

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THE HUNGRY HEART.
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Riley Greene so far this season (OF ranks)
.247/.402/.506
5 HR (T-3rd)
20 R (2nd)
11 RBI
165 wRC+ (5th)
1.2 fWAR (T-3rd)
20.6 BB% (1st)

Have a seat Tigers Podcast: A.J. Hinch: Keeping Your Head Where Your Feet Are | Have a Seat. 48 minutes.
Jason and Dan sit down with Detroit skipper, A.J. Hinch. The former MLB catcher explains why he never thought he’d be a manager, recounts throwing up after receiving his first offer, and relays his unconventional road to clubhouse leader. Hinch delves into his fascination with sports psychology and how he utilizes principles to create impactful and consistent messaging for players. How have his thoughts on lineup construction evolved over the years – or have they? Hinch also details the telltale signs of uncomfortable hitters, navigating the intricacies of pitching changes, and shares his thoughts on the 2024 Tigers. Finally, A.J. explains why he won’t be picking up water sports any time soon.

Tigers Today podcast: There's more good than bad (14-11) after 25 games. 30 minutes.

Chris McCosky and Tony Paul talk about the Tigers' 14-11 record after 25 games heading into this weekend's series against the Royals at Comerica Park.

On the positive side, the Tigers have the No. 1-ranked bullpen in the major leagues, reliever Jason Foley hasn't allowed a run in his first 11 appearances, the team's overall pitching is ranked third in the American League with a 3.00 ERA and Tarik Skubal is 3-0 and ranked fifth with a 1.82 ERA.

"They're still kind of finding themselves," Chris said on the podcast. "They've been unbeaten in five straight road series. They haven't done that since 2007. That's not a small thing. Those wins count. Their run differential is plus-seven and they've been kind of scruffy at home.

"Tork (Spencer Torkelson) hasn't found his stride and the young guys, Colt Keith and Parker Meadows, have struggled, but pitching has been lights out and they're winning nearly all of the close games."

On deck: Tigers open three-game series against Royals at Comerica Park.
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