September 9 in Tigers and mlb history:
1907: Boston's Cy Young and the A's Rube Waddell battle to a 13-inning scoreless tie. Neither pitcher walks a batter.
1911: Ty Cobb's sac fly scores the only run in the Tigers' 1-0 win over the White Sox.
1921: An American League record for total runs and hits is made when Chicago beats Detroit, 20 - 15. Each team has 20 hits. Ralph Young, Ty Cobb each have 3 hits and 4 runs scored. Harry Heilmann and Bobby Veach knock in 4 apiece.
1922: Baby Doll Jacobson collects three triples to lead the Browns to a 16 - 0 whitewash of the Tigers. The victory, the most lopsided in Browns history, goes to pitcher Elam Vangilder. St. Louis totals 20 hits with Ken Williams hitting a homer in his 5th straight game, his 37th of the year. George Sisler has three hits to keep his hitting streak alive to 38 games, as the Browns keep pace with New York, winners in 10 innings against Washington.
1924: At the Polo Grounds, Brooklyn ace Dazzy Vance wins his 13th in a row, beating the Giants and pulling the Robins within a half game of the top.
1928: A total of 85,265 jam Yankee Stadium to watch the Yankees sweep two from the A's, 3 - 0 and 7 - 3, to move back into first place to stay. George Pipgras is the winner in the first game while the Yankee star of the nitecap is Bob Meusel, who takes an Ed Rommel knuckler out of the park for a grand slam in the 8th. Waite Hoyt is the winner.
1931: To raise funds to help the unemployed in the Depression, the Yankees, Giants, and Robins agree to a series of benefit games. Sixty thousand fans, paying regular prices, raise $59,000 in the first match-up, as Babe Ruth homers and the Yankees beat the Giants 7 - 2.
1932: The Tigers beat the Yankees 14 - 13 in a 14-inning game in which Lou Gehrig hits a grand slam and drives in eight runs. He has reached this RBI feat twice before. Frankie Crosetti strikes out four times in the game, including twice in one inning. Detroit also tops the Yanks 4 - 1 in five innings to finally complete the protested game of August 1st, and the tie of yesterday. The Yanks score their lone run in the 3rd inning off Buck Marrow with their only two hits of the game.
1933: Joe Hauser, Minneapolis (American Association), hits two home runs to set all-time record of 69. Hauser also set the International League record mark at 63, with Baltimore in 1930.
1934: In one of the most memorable games in Negro League history, the Pittsburgh Crawfords' Satchel Paige duels the Philadelphia Stars' Slim Jones to a 1 - 1 stalemate, called after 9 innings due to darkness. Paige strikes out 12, and Jones, 9, before 30,000 at Yankee Stadium.
1938: The Detroit Lions play their first home game at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium: they beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 16-7.
1937: The Detroit Tigers purchased Woody Davis from Toronto (International).
1938: Lou Gehrig plays his 2,100th consecutive game and has 4 hits to bring his average over .300.
1938: The Detroit Lions play their first home game at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 16-7.
1939: Jimmie Foxx is operated on for appendicitis, and will be out for the season. His 35 home runs will still win the title.
1950: The Tigers and White Sox finally finish a game that started in April. The game was originally scheduled as the nitecap of a doubleheader on April 30th, but was halted by darkness after 9 innings deadlocked at 7 - 7. Rescheduled for August 10th, the contest was halted in the 7th with the score 1 - 1. Art Houtteman finally settles it with a 1 - 0, 12-inning win. Hoot Evers triples and scores on a single by Johnny Groth. The league leaders fail to cash in by losing the nitecap 5 - 4, cutting their lead to a half game over New York and a game ahead of Boston.
1951: Sal Maglie wins his 20th game to give the Giants a 2 - 1 win over the Dodgers' Ralph Branca. Monte Irvin's two-run homer in the 4th gives New York all its scoring, The Dodgers score in the 8th on a double by Duke Snider and a triple by Jackie Robinson. But 3B Bobby Thomson snags a ground ball, tags Robby, and throws to first for a double play.
1953: Mickey Mantle's 2-run home run off Chicago's Billy Pierce caps a 7-run 5th inning, as New York wins, 9 - 3, at Yankee Stadium. Returning to CF after the 5th, Mantle is photographed blowing a huge bubble with a wad of gum. Manager Stengel will publicly rebuke the Mick, who will apologize for the indiscretion. However, Mantle does get an endorsement fee from the Bowman Gum company.
1965: Sandy Koufax's perfect game against the Cubs bests Bob Hendley's one-hit effort, 1 - 0. It is the Dodgers southpaw's record fourth no-hitter.
1967: White Sox starter Gary Peters takes a 3 - 0 lead into the 9th inning, but a 7-run 9th including 2 on a Willie Horton single, keeps Detroit tied for first place with the Twins with a 7 - 3 win at Chicago.
Chicago is now in 4th place, two games back, with the Red Sox in 3rd place just a half-game behind.
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1970: Bowie Kuhn hands Denny McLain his third suspension of the year, this one for carrying a gun, plus other unspecified charges, and ends McLain's season with a 3-5 record.
1971: The Detroit Tigers signed John Hiller as a free agent.
1977: In the second game of a doubleheader loss in Boston, Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell debut together. They will hold down the 2B and SS jobs in Detroit for a record 19 years and a record for teammates of 1,918 games played together.
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1978: Ron Guidry (21-2) gives up two singles in the 1st inning and that's it. New York sends 12 runners to the plate and scores seven runs in the 4th inning to win, 7 - 0, against Dennis Eckersley and cut the Boston lead to a single game. For Guidry, it is his 7th shutout of the year, and the first lefty shutout in Fenway Park since Ken Holtzman fired one on August 5, 1974.
1984: Tigers win 7 - 2 and complete a sweep of the second place Blue Jays to all but lock up the AL East.
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1988: The Detroit Tigers traded players to be named later and Chris Hoiles to the Baltimore Orioles for Fred Lynn. The Detroit Tigers sent Cesar Mejia (minors) (September 9, 1988) and Robinson Garces (minors) (September 9, 1988) to the Baltimore Orioles to complete the trade.
1988: Bruce Sutter joins Rollie Fingers and Rich Gossage as the only pitchers to save 300 games as Atlanta beats San Diego, 5 - 4, in 11 innings.
1990: Tiger RF Scott Lusader loses the battle to bright sun and soggy turf and makes three errors (two fielding and one throwing) in the 1st inning against the White Sox. It's a first in the American League since 1925. The Sox score seven runs in the inning and coast home 13 - 3, snapping the Tigers' 7-game winning streak.
1992: Milwaukee OF Robin Yount gets the 3,000th hit of his career in his team's 5 - 4 loss to the Indians. He also becomes only the 2nd player in history to record 200 home runs, 200 stolen bases and 100 triples, duplicating Willie Mays' feat.
1993: The Major Leagues vote to divide each league into three divisions, and add another round of playoffs featuring two wild card teams.
1997: Detroit P Scott Sanders hurls a one-hit, 4 - 0 shutout over the Rangers. 2B Domingo Cedeno's single is the only Texas hit.
1997: Hall of Fame member Richie Ashburn passes away of an apparent heart attack in his New York hotel room following broadcasting a Mets-Phillies game last night. The former Phillies Whiz Kid was an excellent Centerfielder and contact hitter who once fouled off 14 pitches in one at-bat.
1998: the Gem Theatre reopens at Madison & Brush after being moved to make way for Comerica Park.
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2002: The Detroit Tigers released Jose Paniagua.
2004: Royals wallop the Tigers 26-5.
2007: Todd Helton hits his 35th double of the season, this one against Joe Thatcher, in a 4 - 2 Rockies win. It makes him the first major leaguer ever to hit 35 or more doubles 10 years in a row; even the legendary Tris Speaker had only had 9 such seasons in a row.
2009: Derek Jeter ties the New York Yankees franchise record for hits held by Lou Gehrig, with his 2,721st hit in the 7th against the Rays. He will pass Gehrig in two days.
2012: Rookie Mike Trout hits a leadoff home run against the Tigers for the second straight game.
2014: The Tigers are again even with the Royals in the AL Central following a 4 - 2 win over their rivals. Max Scherzer is the winner while J.D. Martinez and Rajai Davis both go deep. In the 9th, Tigers closer Joe Nathan escapes a two-on, none out jam with two strikeouts around picking Jarrod Dyson off second base.
2016: Tigers win over the orioles on a home run by Victor Martinez.
2019: Following a 10 - 6 loss to the Yankees but less than a year after winning the World Series, the Red Sox fire President and General Manager Dave Dombrowski, the architect of that World Series triumph. He has received significant criticism for the large contracts handed out before the season to pitchers Nathan Eovaldi and Chris Sale, who have both failed to deliver, and for not re-signing closer Craig Kimbrel or even looking for an adequate replacement.
2020: At the urging of Roberto Clemente's family, Major League Baseball pays tribute to its first Latin American superstar by allowing Puerto Rican players and others to wear his uniform number, 21, in his honor, on this day. This is akin to the wearing of #42 on Jackie Robinson Day. In addition, all members of the Pirates, Clemente's former team, wear the number, the first time it has been worn by a team member since Clemente's passing 48 years earlier.
Tigers players birthdays:
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John Eubank 1905-1907.
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Waite Hoyt 1930-1931.
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Bud Thomas 1939-1941.
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Jim Proctor 1959.
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Reggie Sanders 1974.
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Dan Miceli 1997.
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Edwin Jackson 2009, 2019.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Ernie Alten 1920.
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Orlin Collier 1931.
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Doc Cramer 1942-1948.
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Jim Donohue 1961.
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