July 13 in Tigers and mlb history:
1896: Ed Delahanty hits four home runs, but it's not enough as the Phillies lose to the Chicago Colts, 9 - 8. "Big Ed" is the second man to hit four homers in one game in the National League, after Bobby Lowe two years earlier.
1901: Doc Nance becomes the first player in Tigers history to get six hits in one game.
1904: With Napoleon Lajoie lining a major-league record three triples, Cleveland rolls past the Highlanders, 16 - 3.
1909: The Detroit Tigers traded Frank Allen, George Suggs and $2,800 to Mobile (Southern Association) for Bill Lelivelt.
1911: In the 9th against the A's, Ty Cobb breaks a 7 - 7 tie by scoring from first on Jim Delahanty's single. Cobb runs through coach Hughie Jennings' frantic signal to hold up and, using a fadeaway slide, eludes the tag of catcher Ira Thomas. Detroit wins 8 - 7, to stay in first place.
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1915: Pete Alexander wins his 9th in a row for the Phils, shutting out the visiting Cardinals, 8 - 0. The Phils move into first place in the National League with the victory, and will remain there for the rest of the season, winning the franchise' first-ever NL Pennant.
1916: Detroit's Bill James strikes out seven straight batters in the Tigers' 3 - 1 win over Washington.
1922: The Detroit Tigers purchased Roy Moore from the Philadelphia Athletics.
1922: The smallest crowd in Fenway Park history - just 68 fans - see the Browns' Herman Pillette shut out the Red Sox, 2 - 0. Alex Ferguson takes the loss.
1927: Sam Gibson of the Tigers walks 12 but still beats the Senators 7 - 3 in the first game of a double header.
1927: Chicago admirers present Eddie Collins, now with the A's, with a new automobile. The A's send out a lineup featuring Collins, Ty Cobb and Zack Wheat, all of whom have at least 2,500 hits entering the game. The next team to that will be the 2012 Yankees.
1930: The defending champs, the Philadelphia A's, move into first place by beating the Browns, 12 - 1, and will remain in the lead the rest of the season.
1934: In front of 20,000 fans during the third inning at Navin Field in Detroit, Babe Ruth wallops a Tommy Bridges 3-2 pitch far over the right field wall for his 700th career home run. The 4 - 2 victory over the Tigers puts the Bronx Bombers back into first place, but Lou Gehrig is helped off the field in the first inning with a severe bout of lumbago.
1935: The A's Doc Cramer has a 6-for-6 game, tying the American League mark for the second time. He had also done it in 1932.
1940: Bobo Newsom wins his 13th consecutive decision, the longest win streak for him. His line in that time: 17 G, 17 GS, 13 CG, 135.2 IP, 102 H, 42 R, 34 ER, 42 BB, 84 K, and 2.26 ERA.
1943: The American League edges the National League, 5 - 3, at Shibe Park in the first All-Star Game played under the lights. Bobby Doerr of the Red Sox is the hitting hero with a three-run homer off Mort Cooper in the 2nd inning. Vince DiMaggio of the Pirates has a single, triple and home run in three trips. Doerr also handles six fielding chances. At the All-Star break he had handled 307 errorless chances, dating back to May 20th. His streak will end at 349 chances, a record he will break in 1948. The game is broadcast to GIs via shortwave radio.
1944: A .300 hitter as a rookie for the Tigers in 1943, Dick Wakefield finishes Navy air training and then is released from the service pending assignment. He rejoins the Tigers and will hit .355 the rest of the season, pushing Detroit near the flag despite the loss of 12 of its first 13 home games. In the first week after the All-Star Game, Wakefield homers twice, and goes 9 for 24.
1947: Making his 14th major-league uniform switch, Bobo Newsom joins the Yanks. His 7-5 record the rest of the way will help the Yankees to the title. Next season, Newsom will join the Giants.
1948: At Sportsman's Park, the American League defeats the National League for the 11th time in 15 All-Star contests, 5 - 2. Vic Raschi pitches three scoreless innings to pick up the win and hits a two-run single as well.
Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, George Kell and Hal Newhouser miss places in the lineup due to injuries.
1950: Doctors remove seven bone fragments from Ted Williams' elbow in a 75-minute operation. He was injured in yesterday's All-Star Game and will be sidelined until mid-September. But he will go on to hit .350 for the rest of 1950 and .336 throughout the rest of his career, including .388 and .328 to lead the American League in 1957 and 1958 respectively.
1954: At Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, Senators hurler Dean Stone does not retire a batter, but gets the win in the American League's 11 - 9 All-Star Game victory as he throws out Red Schoendienst trying to steal home in the 8th inning for the third out before retiring a batter. The AL breaks the National League's 4-game winning streak.
Larry Doby's pinch home run in the bottom of the 8th, followed by Nellie Fox's 2-run single, ends the highest-scoring All-Star Game in history. The two teams combine for 31 hits, with the AL amassing 17. The Indians' Al Rosen has two homers and 5 RBIs.
1960: Vern Law becomes the second Pirate to win a 1960 All-Star Game, working two scoreless innings. Stan Musial comes off the National League bench and hits his record 6th and last All-Star Game home run. Willie Mays, Ken Boyer and Eddie Mathews also homer in the 6 - 0 NL win, the third shutout in All-Star Game history.
1961: Chicago's Early Wynn gets an early departure as he retires just two Yankees in the 1st inning. Then Mickey Mantle (30th) and Roger Maris (34th) belt back-to-back homers to send the vet to the showers. For Mantle, it is the 13th homer in his career off Wynn, his favorite target. New York wins, 6 - 2
1963: At Kansas City in the second game of a doubleheader, Cleveland's 43-year-old Early Wynn leaves with a lead after struggling through five innings. Four scoreless relief innings by Jerry Walker enable Wynn to score his 300th career victory, 7 - 4. It has taken Wynn eight tries to cop his 300th (and last) career win.
1964: For the second straight game, the Tigers win 4-3 in 10 innings against the Orioles.
1965: For the first time in All-Star history, the National League takes the lead in games won over the American League as the Senior Circuit edges the junior loop, 6 - 5 at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota. Willie Mays homers, walks twice and scores twice. Game MVP Juan Marichal throws three scoreless innings.
1971: In a game which features six home runs, including Reggie Jackson's crushing a Dock Ellis 4th-inning pitch off the power generator located on the Tiger Stadium right-field roof 520 feet from home plate, the American League beats the National League, 6 - 4, in All-Star action. All the players who homer - Johnny Bench, Hank Aaron, Roberto Clemente, Frank Robinson, Harmon Killebrew as well as Reggie - will become members of the Hall of Fame. It is the only AL All-Star victory between 1962 and 1983.
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1973: Mickey Stanley ties an an American League record with 11 outfield putouts in the Tigers' 8-2 win over the Angels at Tiger Stadium.
1976: Three Tigers start in the annual All-Star Game, played in Philadelphia. Mark Fidrych becomes the second rookie pitcher ever to start the All-Star Game. With Mark Fidrych on the mound, Ron LeFlore leads off and plays center field, and Rusty Staub plays right field. The National League wins the contest 7-1.
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1979: One day after Disco Demolition, 20-year-old rookie Dan Petry pitches a 4-hit complete game 3 - 1 win at Comiskey Park vs. the white sox for his first career win.
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1982: In the first All-Star game played outside the United States, the National League cruises to its 11th straight win, beating the American League at Montreal's Olympic Stadium, 4 - 1. Dave Concepcion's 2nd-inning two-run homer off Red Sox starter Dennis Eckersley is the turning point of the game. The NL has now won 19 of the last 20 contests.
1984: At Minnesota, Detroit tops the Twins 5 - 3, when Lou Whitaker bloops an inside-the-park homer to win it.
Detroit sends it to extra innings when RF Kirk Gibson throws out Tim Teufel at home with two out in the 9th.
Willie Hernandez (5-0) is the winner. Tigers are 58-28.
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1984: The Yankees retire the uniform numbers of Roger Maris (# 9) and Elston Howard (# 32). The team also erects plaques in their honor to pay tribute to their achievements as Bronx Bombers.
1989: The Detroit Tigers released David Palmer.
1993: Players Association chief Donald Fehr says that if serious negotiations between the players and the owners don't begin soon, the players could go out on strike in September, threatening the postseason.
1999: At Fenway Park, hometown favorite Pedro Martinez strikes out five of the six batters he faces to win MVP honors. The two All-Star pitching squads combine for a record 22 strikeouts as the American League tops the National League in the 70th Mid-Summer Classic, 4 - 1. The game begins 15 minutes late as Hall of Fame OF Ted Williams rides out in a cart for the first-pitch ceremony. Players from both teams surround the former Red Sox star in a spontaneous display of homage.
2002: The Tigers defeat the White Sox twice, 5 - 3 and 3 - 1, to mark their first sweep of a doubleheader in almost nine years.
2003: The Detroit Tigers traded Adam Bernero to the Colorado Rockies for Ben Petrick.
2004: Having earned the All-Star MVP award as a 23-year-old for pitching three perfect innings at the Astrodome in 1986, the 41-year old Roger Clemens gives up six runs in the 1st inning in the 75th Midsummer Classic played at Houston's Minute Maid Park. The eventual 9 - 4 American League victory is halted in the top of the 5th inning as the much chagrined "Rocket" receives the Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award from Bud Selig in recognition of his outstanding 21-year career.
2007: The Detroit Tigers traded Roman Colon to the Kansas City Royals for Danny Christensen (minors).
2008: C.C. Sabathia homers and goes the distance in a 3 - 2 Brewers win over the Reds. Sabathia had homered for the Indians earlier in the season, making him the first pitcher to go deep for a team in each league since Earl Wilson in 1970.
2010: George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees since 1973, passes away from a heart attack at his home in Tampa, FL. Steinbrenner restored the Yankees to greatness during his ownership, spent lavishly on free agents, fired managers and front office personnel at a sometimes dizzying pace, but saw the team win seven World Series titles. He had relinquished the team's operations to his son Hal Steinbrenner as his health deteriorated badly in 2008.
2010: The National League wins the 2010 All-Star Game, played at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, 3 - 1, for its first win since 1996. MVP Brian McCann drives in all three runs with a bases-loaded double off Matt Thornton in the 7th. In a year in which pitchers have grabbed most of the headlines, the game is true to form, as pitchers dominate. The American League's only score comes on a sacrifice fly by Robinson Cano.
2011: With jury selection complete, both sides make their opening arguments in the trial of Roger Clemens for perjury. It is clear that the central issue will be the credibility of Clemens' former trainer, Brian McNamee, who has supplied much of the prosecution's key evidence and will be its star witness. For its part, the defense argues that "Clemens' only crime was having the poor judgment of staying connected with McNamee", claiming that none of the allegations are founded and that the physical evidence is the result of tampering.
2012: Chipper Jones ties Mike Schmidt for second place on the all-time list for RBI by a third baseman, knocking in his 1,595th run with a homer in Atlanta's 7 - 5 win over the Mets. Jones is now one RBI behind George Brett among players who played the majority of their careers at the hot corner.
2013: Max Scherzer loses his first game of the year after 13 straight wins when the Tigers bow to the Rangers, 7 - 1.
2020: The Detroit Tigers released Zack Godley.
Tigers players birthdays:
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George Cunningham 1916-1919.
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Clint Sodowsky 1995-1996.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Pepper Peploski 1913.
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