July 23 in Tigers and mlb history:
1902: John McGraw has his first win as the Giants' manager, when New York downs Brooklyn, 4 - 1. McGraw finishes with 2,763 wins as a manager, second only to Connie Mack's 3,731.
1910: Photographer Charles Conlon snapped one of the most iconic photos of Ty Cobb kicking up a cloud of dirt as he slides into third base.
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1912: Iron Man McGinnity is still pitching doubleheaders, winning a pair of games for Newark against Rochester (International League) at age 41.
1917: The Cubs sweep a doubleheader with Brooklyn on two shutouts. Grover Alexander wins the opener, 3 - 0.
1922: When umpires Brick Owens and Tom Connolly miss a train, the Detroit and St. Louis trainers, Bits Bierhalter and Dan Howley, are pressed into service.
1926: Detroit and Washington take the unheard of time of two hours and 40 minutes to play nine innings. Detroit's 19 hits give them a 9 - 6 win, but much of the time is consumed by manager Ty Cobb's arguing over a balk call, then trying to have a heckling fan removed from the stands.
1930: Pie Traynor of the Pirates is responsible for two victories over the Phillies. His home run in the 9th seals the first game, 2 - 1, and he comes through with a three-run homer in the 13th inning of the nightcap to win, 16 - 15.
1932: Cleveland P Wes Ferrell makes 10 assists in a 12-inning game, but loses to the White Sox, 6 - 5. The record in both leagues is 12.
1942: After giving up a lead-off bloop single, Newark Eagles hurler Leon Day strikes out 18 Baltimore Elite Giants to set a Negro League record.
1947: Ralph Kiner hits home runs number 24 and 25, breaking the Pirate record of 23 by Johnny Rizzo in 1938 and tied by Kiner as a rookie last year. Trailing home run king Johnny Mize, 14 to 3, at the end of May, Kiner will have 25 to Mize's 31 by the end of July.
1948: After missing 15 games with a torn rib cartilage, Ted Williams is 2 for 4 to help the Red Sox down the White Sox, 13 - 1. Bobby Doerr collects his 18th homer and adds a double and single to back Mickey Harris. Boston has now won nine straight to pull within a game and a half of the first-place Indians.
1950: Tigers P Saul Rogovin hits a 2nd-inning grand slam off Yankees P Eddie Lopat as the first-place Bengals nip the onrushing New York Yankees, 6 - 5.
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1956: Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg are officially inducted into the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, NY.
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1957: Mickey Mantle hits for the cycle, and adds a stolen base, against Chicago's Bob Keegan. The Yankees win, 10 - 6.
1958: Baseball's pre-eminent hitter (and spitter), Boston's Ted Williams, is at it again although today, as noted by Bob Holbrook of the Boston Globe, Teddy Baseball branches out, irrigating an unsuspecting gathering of Kansas City supporters. After hitting a 4th-inning grounder to first, writes Holbrook, "Williams jogged part way to first, saw the play was routine and then made an abrupt turn and started back to the dugout. For his lack of fire on this play the Kansas City fans set up a crescendo of boos. Ted bristled and made his dying swan leap, spitting at the fans as he pirouetted through the air. That's all the fans needed. They set up a thunderous round of boos, the spontaneity of which amazed the observers in this sector."
1959: Ty Cobb leaves his seat in the stands at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium to greet Tigers players in the dugout.
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1959: With Ty Cobb in the stands, the Tigers make 15 hits to beat the Senators, 11 - 2. Harvey Kuenn, the American League's leading hitter, is 4 for 4 and scores four runs with 3 rbi. The second leading hitter in the league Al Kaline is 4 for 5 with 3 runs scored and 2 rbi. Jim Bunning allows four hits to win his 9th of the year.
1960: Kansas City OF Whitey Herzog hits into the only all-Cuban triple play in major league history. The action goes from Washington P Pedro Ramos, to 1B Julio Becquer, to SS Jose Valdivielso. The win, however, goes to reliever Chuck Stobbs as the Nats take an 8 - 3 decision. Harmon Killebrew has a two-run homer.
1960: In an effort to distract Ted Williams during his at-bats in the 6th and 8th innings, Indians CF Jimmy Piersall goes into a war dance. Piersall gets tossed for his efforts and manager Joe Gordon is also ejected for arguing Jimmy's case. It is Piersall's 6th ejection of the season. Gordon had previously announced that any more ejections would cost Piersall $500 each, but he thinks today's thumbing is unwarranted and waives the fine. American League president Joe Cronin is less forgiving and fines Piersall $100. The Indians win, 4 - 2, behind Jim Perry's pitching and the first major league home run of Mike de la Hoz.
1961: Using 21 pitchers, the Tigers (11) and A's (10) set an American League record for most hurlers used in an 18-inning doubleheader. At 3 hours, 54 minutes, the second game is the longest 9-inning contest in AL history. The entire doubleheader lasts six hours, 50 minutes, a major league record. The Tigers sweep, 6 - 4 and 17 - 14, taking first place by one percentage point. Game 1 the Tigers are led by Norm Cash's homerun and 3 rbi. Game 2 the Tigers Norm Cash with 4 hits, 4 runs, and 5 rbi, Rocky Colavito with 3 hits and 4 rbi, and Al Kaline with 3 runs and 2 rbi lead the 17 hit attack.
1963: The Kansas City Athletics purchased Tom Sturdivant from the Detroit Tigers.
1967: 12th Street Riot erupts during Tigers doubleheader, Willie Horton appeals to crowd for peace.
1969: Bill Freehan goes 2-for-2 in the All-Star Game at RFK Stadium, with a home run off Steve Carlton and an RBI single off Bob Gibson. Willie McCovey hits two home runs for the NL in a 9-3 win for the N.L. 7th straight All-Star Game win, with McCovey named All-Star MVP. Mel Stottlemyre starts for the AL when Denny McLain is late arriving from a dental appointment.
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1971: Mickey Lolich loses his 100th decision for a 132-100 career record.
1974: The National League triumphs in the All-Star Game in Pittsburgh, winning, 7 - 2. Steve Garvey, elected as a starter as a write-in choice, is the game's MVP.
1984: Tigers beat the indians 4 - 1. Jack Morris wins his 13th of the season. Kirk Gibson (15th) & Lance Parrish (20th) hit back-to-back home runs in the first. Jack Morris & the bullpen hold the Indians scoreless for 8 ? innings. Tigers are 67-29 #Relive84
1986: Jack Morris' scoreless inning streak ends at 31 in the first inning on an unearned run. Morris then holds the Twins scoreless for 7 more innings. Johnny Grubb hits a pinch hit grand slam in the Tigers' 12-2 win.
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1991: Texas's Nolan Ryan notches his 308th career win in a 5 - 4 victory over the Red Sox. Rich Gossage garners his 308th career save in relief. The game marks Ryan's 545th consecutive start, surpassing Steve Carlton's major league record.
2000: Cooperstown, delivers first baseman Tony Perez, manager Sparky Anderson and Reds announcer Marty Brennaman into the Baseball Hall of Fame along with 1975 Red Sox World Series rival Carlton Fisk. Also enshrined are 19th Century Cincinnati second baseman Bid McPhee, and longtime member of the Detroit Stars and one of the Negro Leagues' most prolific sluggers star centerfielder Norman 'Turkey' Stearnes is inducted posthumously.
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2002: The Detroit Tigers traded Matt Boone (minors), Brian Moehler and cash to the Cincinnati Reds for players to be named later and David Espinosa (minors). The Cincinnati Reds sent Noochie Varner (minors) (August 30, 2002) and Jorge Cordova (minors) (September 24, 2002) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
2009: Mark Buehrle of the White Sox pitches the 18th perfect game in major league history in shutting down the Rays, 5 - 0. Dewayne Wise, inserted as a defensive substitute in the 9th, saves the gem by reaching over the left-center field fence to deprive Gabe Kapler of a home run. It is the second career no-hitter for Buehrle, who threw one on April 18, 2007. After the game, he receives a congratulatory phone call from President Barack Obama, a staunch White Sox fan.
2012: The Marlins send P Anibal Sanchez and IF Omar Infante to the Tigers in return for P Jacob Turner and minor-leaguers Rob Brantly and Brian Flynn; and in a major league first, the teams also swap picks in next season's amateur draft.
2014: The Tigers shore up their bullpen with the acquisition of Joakim Soria from the Rangers in return for Ps Jake Thompson and Corey Knebel.
Closer has proved to be a weak link for the Tigers this year, with Joe Nathan sporting a 5.89 ERA.
2016: In a bizarre incident, White Sox ace Chris Sale is scratched from a scheduled start against the Tigers because of what General Manager Rick Hahn describes as a "clubhouse incident". Sale apparently was upset at this team's decision to wear throwback uniforms from the late 1970s, including their infamous dark blue long-collared jerseys, and in a fit of sartorial criticism, destroyed the uniforms with a pair of scissors. Matt Albers makes an emergency start wearing the Sox's 1980s white jerseys. Sale's tantrum will result in a five-day suspension handed by the ChiSox and he will be traded for a package of prospects after the season.
2018: The Red Sox continue their scorching pace as a 5 - 3 win over the Orioles, behind the pitching of Rick Porcello, puts them at 40 games above .500 for the first time since 1949.
2018: The Tigers rally from 2 runs down in the 9th with 3 straight doubles to win 5-4.
2020: Commissioner Rob Manfred springs a surprise on everyone as he announces a modified postseason format for this year only. There will be 8 teams participating from each league: the two teams with the best records in each division, and the ones with the two next best records in the league. The teams will be seeded one to eight. The Wild Card Game will be replaced by a preliminary round with all teams participating, played in best-of-three format, with all games played in the better-ranked team's ballpark.
2020: In the most belated opening day in major league history, a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the Yankees defeat the Nationals, 4 - 1 in an interleague game ended in the 6th inning by a violent thunderstorm. Without any spectators present, the nation's chief immunologist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, throws a wild ceremonial first pitch at Nationals Park, before Giancarlo Stanton hits a two-run homer off Max Scherzer to put New York ahead to stay in the top of the 1st. The Yankees' prize off-season signing, Gerrit Cole, allows just one hit, a solo homer by Adam Eaton, in pitching an abbreviated complete game. As a reminder that the health crisis is still a reality, the Nationals play without LF Juan Soto, who tests positive for COVID-19 on the morning of the game.
In the only other game played today, RF Mookie Betts makes his presence felt in his first game in a Dodgers uniform, one day after signing a $325-million contract extension, in an 8 - 1 win over the Giants. Rookie Dustin May, a last-minute replacement for scheduled opening day starter Clayton Kershaw, victim of a back injury, allows the Giants an early run, but it's all blue after that as Kik? Hernandez drives in 5 runs on 4 hits, while Betts starts a five-run rally in the 7th with his first hit for his new team, scoring the go-ahead run on a close play at home.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Lewis 'Sport' McAllister 1901-1903.
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Lee Dressen 1918.
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Cy Fried 1920.
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Frank Croucher 1939-1941.
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Johnny Groth 1946-1952, 1957-1960.
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Ray Scarborough 1953.
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Matt Hall 2018-2019.
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