June 23 in Tigers and mlb history:
1909: At the Polo Grounds, Christy Mathewson wins a doubleheader against Boston. Matty relieves Rube Marquard in the opener with the score tied 4 - 4 in the 9th. After shutting down Boston, the Giants score a run for the 5 - 4 win. Matty then coasts in the nitecap to an 11 - 1 win.
1915: For the 5th time this month, and 6th time this year, Ty Cobb steals home, doing it in a 4 - 2 Tiger win over the St. Louis Browns. Cobb scores another run when Sam Crawford hits back to Browns P Grover Lowdermilk, who somersaults after catching the grounder and sits on the mound holding the ball. Cobb scores all the way from second base on the play.
1915: Philadelphia Athletics lefty Bruno Haas makes his debut against New York a memorable one as he walks a record 16 batters, and throws three wild pitches. He goes all the way in a 15 - 7 loss, his only major league decision. Haas breaks the American League record of 15 walks, set by Boardwalk Brown and ties Bill George's major league record. Haas will pitch in just five more games before ending up in the NFL as a halfback for Akron.
1917: In the first of two games at Boston, Babe Ruth starts for the Red Sox and walks the leadoff man, griping to plate umpire Brick Owens after each pitch. On ball 4, Ruth plants a right to the umpire's head, and is ejected.
Ernie Shore comes in to pitch. Ray Morgan is then caught stealing, and Shore retires all 26 men he faces in a 4 - 0 win, getting credit in the books for a perfect game (the ruling will later be changed, giving the two pitchers a combined no-hitter, but no perfect game). Boston's Dutch Leonard then beats Walter Johnson, 5 - 0, in the nitecap.
Ruth is suspended for his actions, a ban that will last nine days. He also is fined $100.
1927: With the help of a 3rd-inning triple play, the Tigers down the White Sox, 6 - 5, in 11 innings. Ted Lyons loses again, to reliever Earl Whitehill.
1927: At Boston, Lou Gehrig leads New York to an 11 - 4 victory by hitting three home runs, a first at Fenway Park. Gehrig hits a two-run homer in the 2nd, and solo shots in the 6th and 8th, off Danny MacFayden. He adds a single to his total as Dutch Ruether coasts to the win.
1930: With two outs in the 6th inning, Brooklyn makes 10 hits in succession against Pittsburgh to equal the major league record. The Robins begin the 7th inning with two more after the 6th inning ends with a runner tagged out at the plate. They win, 19 - 6. Babe Herman hits two home runs during the streak.
1930: Hack Wilson hits for the cycle with two singles, a double, triple, and homer, and drives in six as the Cubs whip the Phils, 21 - 8, at Wrigley Field.
1933: The Senators take over first place, winning their third in a row over the White Sox while the Yankees break even in St. Louis. Joe Cronin leads the way with his 5th consecutive multi-hit game. With his two hits today matching his output on the 18th, and 13 hits in the three games of the 19th, 21st and 22nd, Cronin sets the record for most hits in three games (13) as well as four games (15).
1935: Hank Greenberg hits a grand slam in the 9th, but the Tigers lose 12-7 to the senators.
1939: Hank Greenberg collects his 1,000th hit, a double in the Tigers 7 - 4 win over the Senators.
1940: Bobo Newsom wins his 9th in a row, stopping the Yankees on four hits. The Tigers move to a game and a half in back of the first-place Indians.
1940: In Cleveland, 56,659 watch the Indians split with Boston. Cleveland wins the opener, 4 - 1, for their 8th win in a row, then Boston wins the nitecap, 2 - 0, on two Jim Tabor home runs. In the first game, Ted Williams and Doc Cramer collide chasing a fly ball. Williams is knocked unconscious and the ball goes for an inside-the-park home run.
1943: Captain Hank Greenberg briefly re-joins the Tigers for batting practice.
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1943: Tigers play a doubleheader with 350 armed guards stationed throughout Briggs Stadium due to racial unrest.
1950: Eleven home runs - a major league record - drive in all the runs scored in a 10 - 9 Tiger win over the Yankees before 51,000 Detroit fans.
Detroit has four home runs in the 4th inning as Dizzy Trout, Jerry Priddy, Vic Wertz and Hoot Evers connect.
Pitcher Trout's home run, off Tommy Byrne, is his second lifetime grand slam.
Evers hits another home run, an inside-the-park 2-run game winner in the 9th off Joe Page to win it.
For New York, Hank Bauer connects for two homers, including one in the 4th inning. Joe DiMaggio, Jerry Coleman, Yogi Berra and pinch hitter Tommy Henrich also belt round trippers.
It is the first time that nine different players connect for homers in a game.
1951: Don Newcombe gives up a 1st-inning single to Ralph Kiner in beating the Bucs on a one-hitter, 13 - 1. The Dodgers jump on Bill Werle and successors for 16 hits, including homers by Carl Furillo and Rocky Bridges.
1958: The Detroit Tigers traded Vito Valentinetti to the Washington Senators for Al Cicotte.
1959: The Yankees ride two-run homers from Mickey Mantle, Hank Bauer and Gil McDougald to a 10 - 2 win over Kansas City.
1962: Mickey Mantle returns to the Yankee lineup and homers against Paul Foytack. But it is not enough as Detroit wins, 5 - 4.
1963: A major league fielding record is set by Boston's 1B Dick Stuart aka "Dr. Strange Glove" handles three 1st-inning grounders and tosses to P Bob Heffner for putouts each time. Stuart's teammates and Fenway Park fans give him a standing ovation. The Yankees beat the Sox, 8 - 0. Heffner is just the second pitcher to have three putouts in an inning: Boston's Jim Bagby (1940) is the other. Rick Reuschel in 1975 will be the next.
1965: The Detroit Tigers selected Orlando Pena off waivers from the Kansas City Athletics.
1967: The Cincinnati Reds purchased Jake Wood from the Detroit Tigers.
1968: Tigers split a doubleheader in Cleveland: Luis Tiant shuts Tigers out in Game 1, Dick Tracewski's 3-run homer gives them a 4-1 win in Game 2.
1969: Jim Price hits a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 9th, his second walk-off hit in two weeks, and Tigers beat the yankees 6 - 5.
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1974: Los Angeles Dodgers closer Mike Marshall completes a sweep of the Giants, winning today, 4 - 3. Marshall was the winner in yesterday's 3 - 2 win, and also on the 21st in another 4 - 3 victory. Not till California's Chuck McElroy, in 1996, will another pitcher sweep a series.
1984: The Detroit Tigers released Don Gordon.
1984: Milt Wilcox pitches the Tigers 5 - 1 win over the Brewers.
1985: Frank Tanana pitches 7 shutout innings against the Yankees in his #Tigers debut Tigers win 3 - 1.
1988: George Steinbrenner fires Billy Martin for the fifth time, replacing him with Lou Piniella. In 1985, Piniella was fired and replaced by Martin. In 1987, Martin was fired and replaced by Piniella. New York's 40-28 record is the 4th best in the big leagues, but the Yankees have just completed a 2-7 road trip.
1994: The Senate Judiciary Committee fails to approve antitrust legislation by a vote of 10-7. According to Donald Fehr, executive director of the Major League Players Association, the action leaves the players with little choice but to strike.
1998: The Detroit Tigers traded Bip Roberts to the Oakland Athletics for a player to be named later. The Oakland Athletics sent Jason Wood (July 18, 1998) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
2001: The Detroit Tigers traded Dave Mlicki to the Houston Astros for Jose Lima.
2003: The Cleveland Indians sent Ron Wright to the Detroit Tigers as part of a conditional deal.
2012: Jim Thome hits a walk-off homer off Tampa Bay's Jake McGee in the bottom of the 9th to give the Phillies a 7 - 6 win. It is Thome's 609th career homer, tying him with Sammy Sosa for 7th place on the all-time list, and the 13th in walk-off fashion, the most in history; five players have hit 12, and all are Hall of Famers: Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Frank Robinson and Babe Ruth.
2016: The Tigers win the game as Cameron Maybin comes in to score on a wild pitch by Steve Cishek in the bottom of the 10th and beat the mariners 5 - 4.
2017: The Detroit Tigers released Francisco Rodriguez.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Al Clauss 1913.
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Bubba Floyd 1944.
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Aaron Robinson 1949-1951.
November 10, 1948: Traded by the Chicago White Sox to the Detroit Tigers for Billy Pierce and $10,000.
Top 5 dumbest trades by Detroit.
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Tom Haller 1972.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Al Bashang 1912.
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George Boehler 1912-1916.
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Ross Reynolds 1914-1915.
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