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May 8 in Tigers and mlb history:

1858: Hall of Famer Dan Brouthers was born this day in Sylvan Lake, New York. Playing mainly with Buffalo and Detroit of the N.L. Brouthers led the league five times in on-base percentage and seven times in slugging percentage. He also led the league twice in Runs, tree times in Hits, three times in doubles, five times in batting average, eight time each in OPS and OPS+, and four times in total bases. A hard hitting first baseman Brouthers was voted into the Hall of Fame in 1945.
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1878: Providence Grays centerfielder Paul Hines catches a fly by Jack Burdock and starts a triple play, racing in to touch third base before Jack Manning can return, then throwing to second to nab Ezra Sutton. Some eyewitnesses contend that Sutton had passed third and was out when Hines touched the base, making it the only unassisted triple play by an outfielder. This contradicts the version by Manning, Jim O'Rourke and others present, which has been accepted generally as the correct account.

1893: Hall of Famer Edd Roush was born this day in Oakland City, IN. A career .323 batting average, Roush was a two-time batting champion who played eighteen years, mostly with the Cincinnati Reds. He appeared in the 1919 World Series fixed by the Black Sox.
Roush was also second in the league in batting twice, once closely behind Zack Wheat and once behind Rogers Hornsby. He also finished third twice behind Hornsby.
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1900 - John McGraw and Wilbert Robinson end their holdout and sign with the Cardinals. Both contracts have the reserve clause crossed out, freeing McGraw to return to Baltimore in the American League in 1901.

1901: Negro League legend Norman Turkey Stearnes was born in Nashville Tn. "Cool Papa Bell said, 'If Turkey is not in the Hall of Fame, then no one deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.' He was enshrined in Cooperstown in 2000. Stearnes was second only to Willie Wells in WAR among Negro League position players between 1920-1948.
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1901: In a letter to American League team owners, Ban Johnson says that the rule requiring clubs to cut their players to 14 will not be enforced until May 20th.

1901: In their long-delayed American League home opener, Boston defeats Philadelphia's Bill Bernhard, 12 - 4, behind Cy Young, who has jumped from the St. Louis Cardinals. Boston is led by Buck Freeman, who has a single, triple and homer. Young complains that he does not like the rule against pitchers warming up, but he will still lead the AL with his 1.62 ERA. His 33 wins are 41.8 percent of his team's 79 victories; a post-1900 record, it will stand until Steve Carlton wins 45.8 percent of the Phils' 59 wins in 1972. Young also complains about catchers: "I do not like the league rule compelling the catcher to stand behind the bat all the time. It handicaps a pitcher. I cannot extend myself as I would like."

1907: Christy Mathewson tosses his second straight shutout, stopping the visiting Pirates, 4 - 0 on four hits.

1911: The Phillies' Grover Cleveland Alexander records his first shutout, stopping Brooklyn, 5 - 0, on three hits. Alex fans nine to run his record to 3-1. Alexander will lead the league in Shutouts 7 times and finish with 90 for his career second to Walter Johnson.

1914: When the Senators relieve with Walter Johnson, the A's greet him with six runs in three innings to drive the "Big Train" from the mound. Johnson throws the one and only beanball of his career, a fastball at the head of Frank "Home Run" Baker, a particular nemesis of Johnson's. The beanball misses Baker, whom Johnson calls "the most dangerous batter that I ever faced." Baker had hit .385 against the Nats ace up till this game in 4 seasons; he'll hit just .207 off him in the next nine years. When the dust settles, the game ends in a 9 - 9 tie.

1921: Ty Cobb hits a home run, a triple, and two doubles but no single, so no cycle.

1926: The Yankees score seven in the 2nd but lose to Detroit, 14 - 10, knocking themselves out of the lead; Washington moves into first.

1926: A three-alarm blaze burns down Fenway Park's grandstand roof and left field bleachers. The Boston Red Sox, desperately in need of cash, use most of the insurance proceeds to pay for operations and leave a vacant lot where the bleachers once stood.
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1927: At Detroit, Marty McManus singles in two runs in the 9th to lead the Tigers to a 3 - 2 win over the Red Sox.
Fatty Fothergill goes hitless for the first time this season to end his 18-game hitting streak.

1935: Reds backstop Ernie Lombardi equals the major-league record with four straight doubles, all in consecutive innings (6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th) and each off a different pitcher: Syl Johnson, Orville Jorgens, Euel Moore and Frank Pearce. The slow-footed Lombardi also has a "long single" in the 23-hit, 15 - 4 win over the Phillies in the first game.

1937: Washington's Bobo Newsom, who will pitch in four decades, hits his only major-leaguer homer. It comes in Detroit off Tiger ace Schoolboy Rowe as the "Talkative One" wins, 8 - 3.

1946: At Griffith Stadium, Detroit 2B Eddie Mayo snags a 3rd-inning liner off the bat of Gil Torres to start a triple play. The ball is deflected by P Hal Newhouser, but Mayo grabs it before it hits the ground. It is the second time in a year that Mayo has started a triple play off Torres; in the 2nd inning of the nitecap on July 20, 1945, Mayo grabbed a Torresline drive to start the triple killing.

1946: Hot-hitting Boston SS Johnny Pesky becomes the first player in American League history to score six runs in one game, as the Red Sox beat the White Sox, 14 - 10. Mickey Harris is the winner, despite giving up 17 hits in 8 2/3 innings. Boo Ferriss retires Taffy Wright for the last out and the Sox have now won 13 straight.

1947: A movement among Cardinal players to protest the first meeting with Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers is aborted by a clubhouse talk from owner Sam Breadon, according to a story by writer Stanley Woodward. League president Ford Frick had warned the team that if a strike occurred, any player involved would be suspended. Cardinal manager Eddie Dyer denies there was any strike talk.

1948: At Griffith Stadium, Larry Doby pounds a 408-foot homer to center field, which hits the loudspeakers 35 feet high, to help the Indians top the Senators, 6 - 1. Larry's ball bounces back onto the field and is initially declared in play. The 8th-inning three-run homer is the longest home run in the Stadium since Babe Ruth's shot in 1922, and is the first of Doby's four career inside-the-park homers. World War II veteran Gene Bearden makes his first start, allowing just three Nat hits. He walks four in the 9th inning to allow the lone run, as Washington finally scores after three straight shutouts.

1953: After 13 straight losses to New York, the Red Sox win a dramatic 11-inning, 2 - 1 thriller at Fenway Park. Billy Goodman's homer off starter Johnny Sain gives starter Hal Brown the win. Dick Gernert's 2nd-inning home run is the other Boston score. In Boston's previous win over New York, August 9, 1952, all the scores came on solo homers.

1957: At Comiskey Park, Boston slugger Ted Williams hits three home runs, all off Bob Keegan, and drives in all the runs as the Red Sox stop Chicago, 4 - 1.

1959: Frank Bolling is in an 0-for-19 slump, manager Jimmie Dykes lets him bat in the bottom of the 9th with 2 on and the Tigers down 2. Bolling comes through with a triple and scores on an error to give the Tigers a 5-4 walk-off win.
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1960: Chicago White Sox slugger Ted Kluszewski becomes the first MLB player to have a typo on his jersey.
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1961: The new National League entry in New York is officially named the "Mets." Not Metropolitans, just Mets. At a ceremony at the Savoy Hilton, owner Joan Payson swings a bottle of champagne and, after three unsuccessful whacks, turns the job over to a waiter who uses a bottle opener. The "Mets" was the choice among the 10 finalists: Continentals, Burros, Mets, Skyliners, Skyscrapers, Bees, Rebels, NYBs, Avengers, and Jets. The original list was 644 names from 9,613 suggestions. The Metropolitans nickname had been used by the New York American Associationteam in the 1880s.

1962: Al Kaline hits a home run and a triple and 4 RBI in the Tigers' 10-1 win over the Angels at Dodger Stadium.
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1963: Pirates LF Willie Stargell's first major league homer and Cubs P Bob Buhl's first major league hit in 88 at-bats highlight a 9 - 5 Chicago win over Pittsburgh.

1963: The Braves acquire Chico Fernandez from the Tigers for Lou Johnson and cash, then turn around and swap him to the Mets for Larry Foss.

1963: A Stan Musial home run against the Dodgers gives him 1,357 extra-base hits, surpassing Babe Ruth's major league record. He will get 20 more; his record will later be broken by Hank Aaron.

1965: Tigers win 4-3 on Al Kaline's home run in the 15th inning in Baltimore.
A major league-record streak of 438 chances accepted without an error and 89 straight errorless games by Baltimore 2B Jerry Adair ends with his 8th-inning fumble in the 15-inning loss to the Tigers.
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1966: Frank Robinson powers the first ball ever hit completely out of Baltimore's Memorial Stadium.
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1967: The Detroit Tigers purchased Bill Heath from the Houston Astros.

1968: Oakland's Catfish Hunter pitches a perfect game against the Twins, winning 4 - 0. The 22-year old righthander hurls the first American League regular-season perfecto in 46 years. He strikes out 11, including Harmon Killebrew three times, and drives in three of the A's four runs, the other coming on a two-out, bases-loaded walk to 1B Danny Cater in the 8th inning. Only 6,298 fans are in attendance.
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1968: Jim Northrup homers in the 1st inning & makes a diving catch on a Brooks Robinson line drive with the bases loaded in the 8th to preserve the Tigers 3-1 win in Baltimore.
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1973: Ralph Miller, the last living 19th century ballplayer, dies in Cincinnati at 100 years of age. He is the first former major leaguer to become a centenarian.

1973: For the second time in his career, Pirate Willie Stargell poles one out of Dodger Stadium. His blast off Andy Messersmith hits the right field pavilion roof 470 feet away. His first home run, a 506-foot shot, came off Alan Foster on August 5, 1969. No other player has hit a fair ball out of the stadium. Los Angeles wins, 7 - 4.

1979: During an 8 - 7 loss to Texas, Kansas City loses two regulars, both as a result of being hit by pitches from Ed Farmer. OF Al Cowens suffers a fractured jaw and will miss 21 games; 2B Frank White sustains a broken hand and will sit out 33 contests. Farmer will be traded three times in the next 12 months. On June 20, 1980, Cowens will hit a grounder off Farmer and charge the mound in retaliation for today's game.

1984: With the Tigers trailing 2-1 in the 7th, Alan Trammell hits a grand slam to give Detroit the 5-2 win in Kansas City.
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1995: The Detroit Tigers signed Joe Hall as a free agent.

2004: Tigers blow a 14-4 lead, give up 10 runs in the 5th inning, and lose 16-15 in 10 innings in Texas. The two teams combine for 18 runs in the 5th inning, one short of a major league record.

2009: Curtis Granderson robs Grady Sizemore of a game-winning home run bottom of the 9th and Tigers win 1 - 0.

2010: The Detroit Tigers released Jason Waddell.

2016: Justin Verlander passes Jack Morris to move to 2nd place on the Tigers' all-time strikeout list. JV trails only Mickey Lolich. The record strikeout comes against former Tiger Prince Fielder.

2018: The Detroit Tigers released James Russell.

2018: Ground breaks on The Corner, a redevelopment on the site of Tiger Stadium at Michigan & Trumbull.
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2022: The Detroit Tigers purchased Manuel Garcia (minors) from the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Tigers players birthdays:

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Dan Brouthers Detroit Wolverines N.L. 1886-1888.

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John Skopec 1903.

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Norman 'Turkey' Stearnes Detroit Stars Negro Leagues 1923-1931, 1937.

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Alfredo Simon 2015.

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Wily Peralta 2021-2022.

Tigers players who passed away:

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Eddie Onslow 1912-1913.

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Slick Coffman 1937-1939.

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George Susce 1958-1959.

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Leo Marentette 1965.

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John Young 1971.

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Ernie Harwell and George Kell interview Al Kaline during spring training in 1962.
This might have been Al's Triple Crown Year as he was leading the league in the categories until May 26, when he made a game ending catch for a 2 to 1 win but as he rolled over on the ground he broke his collar bone and lost 60 games.
Kaline still hit 29 Home runs in 100 games with 95 RBI.
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Matt Manning tossed three scoreless innings on one hit with four K's in his rehab start for Mud Hens against Worcester. He drew 10 swings and misses. Fastball topped out at 95 mph to go with some sharp breaking balls.
Final line for Triple-A Toledo RHP Matt Manning in his first rehab assignment: 3.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 4 K. 36 pitches, 24 strikes.
He is expected to make two or three rehab starts before joining the Tigers' starting rotation.
 
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Tigers OF Victor Reyes (strained left quad) will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Toledo on Tuesday.

Presumably if all goes well he could rejoin the Tigers by the weekend.
 
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Road woes: Tigers look ahead after tough set.
Tigers official site

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Boxscore.

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Tigers 0 - Astros 5: Hope your mom didn?t watch this
Not good. Not good at all.
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Tigers muster one hit in 5-0 loss to Astros; losing skid hits 5.
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Detroit Tigers muster just one hit in 5-0 loss to finish sweep by Houston Astros.
Freep

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Slumping Tigers shut out as Astros cruise to 4-game sweep.
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May 9 in Tigers and mlb history:

1871: The first Hispanic player in major league baseball is Esteban Enrique Bellan. The 21-year old Cuban infielder plays for the Troy Haymakers of the National Association.

1888: With a twelve-run lead, Louisville Colonels right-handed pitcher Icebox Chamberlain holds the Kansas City Cowboys scoreless pitching left-handed for the last two innings.

1896: Washington defeats Pittsburgh, 14 - 9, in a beanball battle. Senators pitcher Win Mercer hits three Pittsburgh batters while Pirate Pink Hawley plunks three Washington batters in a disastrous 11-run 7th inning, tying a mark he set on July 4, 1894. Hawley retires in 1900 after only nine seasons with a still-standing National League record of 195 hit batters. All told, eight batters are plunked in the contest, a National League-record five by Hawley. The five Washington batters hit by pitches ties the NL mark and won't be matched till July 2, 1969.

1906: The Cincinnati Reds purchased Jimmy Barrett from the Detroit Tigers.

1911: At Hilltop Park, Christy Mathewson and Three Finger Brown renew their rivalry, Matty emerges the winner, 5 - 2, over the Cubs' ace.

1911: Tigers pound the New York Highlanders 10-0 for a record start of 21-2. The 1911 Tigers actually had a better record through 23 games than the 1984 team, which was 19-4. But the '11 Tigers were 30-10 after 40 games, while the '84 champs tallied their immortal mark of 35-5.
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1914: Before 18,000, Christy Mathewson scatters 10 hits in shutting down the Braves, 2 - 0. A Chief Meyers double off Lefty Tyler accounts for both New York runs. Boston is now 3-11, 10 games behind the Pirates.

1915: It is Nap Lajoie Day as the long-time hero returns to Cleveland in a Philadelphia A's uniform. But Nap is hitless as Guy Morton tosses a 6 - 0 shutout against Philadelphia.

1916: Thirty walks are allowed at Philadelphia as Detroit overwhelms the A's, 16 - 2. Tiger rookie George Cunningham is lifted with one out in the 3rd inning after walking six batters. He is given the win, but leaves with a no-hitter and leading 9 - 0. Eighteen of the walks are issued by the A's - 12 by reliever Carl Ray - on their way to a season total of 715. Not until 1938 will a team (the St. Louis Browns with 737) top that. Detroit will add another 11 walks against the A's tomorrow for a two-game major-league record of 29.

1919: In New York, Cyclone Joe Williams, pitching for the Lincoln Giants, no-hits the Brooklyn Royal Giants, 1 - 0, defeating one of his fiercest rivals, Cannonball Dick Redding.

1926: In Ty Cobb's last year with Detroit Tigers, he crosses home plate after hitting one of this two home runs on the day as Tigers outlast the Yankees 14-10 in the Bronx. Cobb would go 4 for 4 to raise his season avg to .426 and also had 4 RBIs.
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1927: Pounding five Boston pitchers for 22 hits, the 2nd-place Tigers outlast the Red Sox, 17 - 11. Harry Heilmann hits 2 home runs, Marty McManus hits 2 triples.
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1930: The Yankees' and the Tigers' outfielders make only two putouts for an American League record which has never been equaled. The National League record for outfield idleness is one chance (Pittsburgh versus Brooklyn on August 26,1910). Detroit's George Uhle strikes out 8 in winning, 5 - 4, and dropping the Yanks to 7th place. Hank Johnson (7 innings) and George Pipgras are the New York hurlers.
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1933: The Chicago White Sox selected Earl Webb off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

1937: Reds C Ernie Lombardi ties the modern major league record with six hits (5 singles and a double) in six consecutive times at bat, as Cincinnati routs Philadelphia, 21 - 10, on 24 hits. Alex Kampouris tallies 8 RBIs for the Reds on three homers, one a grand slam.

1937: At the Polo Grounds, Carl Hubbell wins his 4th straight and his 20th in a row, subduing the Cubs, 4 - 1. The game is scoreless for six innings. Hubbell matches the mark of Rube Marquard, who won one game in 1911 and 19 straight more in 1912.

1938: At Boston, Jimmie Foxx drives in five runs on a pair of homers to pace the Red Sox to a 15 - 3 drubbing of Cleveland.

1939: The St. Louis Browns purchased Les Fleming from the Detroit Tigers.

1939: The New York Giants purchased Red Lynn from the Detroit Tigers.

1943: Due to the poor grade of rubber cement used to make baseballs because of wartime rubber shortages, a different type of baseball is put into play today with dramatic results. In eight games, six home runs are hit compared to a total of nine homers tallied in the season's first 72 games.

1946: At Fenway Park, Boston (20-3) runs its win streak to 14 by edging Chicago, 7 - 5. Bobby Doerr's two-run homer in the 4th inning is the big blow. Mickey Harris, in relief, wins his second game in two days.

1948: The Indians sweep a pair at Fenway Park, beating the Red Sox, 4 - 1, in 10 innings, and 9 - 5. A Ted Williams homer in the opener is the only Sox score, while Ken Keltner belts a pair of homers. They both add another in the nitecap, but Larry Doby clouts a monstrous two-run shot to dead center for the Tribe.

1949: At Detroit, the Tigers set back the first-place Yankees, 4 - 1, behind the five-hit pitching of Ted Gray. Vic Raschi also allows just five hits, including a homer by Dick Wakefield, in taking the loss.

1950: Ralph Kiner of the Pirates hits his second grand slam in three days - and the eighth of his career - and adds a three-run homer to drives in seven runs as the Pirates beat Brooklyn, 10 - 5.

1955: The Detroit Tigers purchased Charlie Maxwell from the Baltimore Orioles.

1958: The Detroit Tigers purchased Herm Wehmeier from the St. Louis Cardinals.

1960: Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn was born this day in Los Angeles, CA. One of baseball's best pure hitters of all time. He played 20 years in the majors, all with the San Diego Padres, with a lifetime .338 batting average and 3,141 hits. A perennial .300-plus batsman, he was especially difficult to strike out and once hit an incredible .394 in a season. With five 200 hit seasons, and an 8 time batting champ, Gwynn struck out only 434 times in over 10,000 plate appearances. Voted into the Hall of Fame in 2007.
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1961: Game 1: Tigers 7 - Senators 2. Rookie Jake Wood has 2 hits and 2 stolen bases. Dick Brown finishes 2-for-4 with a triple. Don Mossi pitches a 4-hit complete game. 6th straight win: Tigers are 17-5.

1961: Game 2: Senators 5 - Tigers 4. Tigers are 17-6, up 3 in the AL .

1961: Jim Gentile of the Orioles becomes the third player to hit grand slams in consecutive innings (after Tony Lazzeri in 1936 and Jim Tabor in 1939; Rudy York also hit two grand slams in a game in 1946, but not in consecutive innings) when he belts one off Pedro Ramos in the 1st and adds another off Paul Giel in the 2nd. His 8 RBI in consecutive innings set a major league record. Gentile also tacks on a sacrifice fly to give him a club record 9 RBI in the 13 - 5 drubbing of the Twins.
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1962: Brooks Robinson becomes the 6th major leaguer this century to hit grand slams in back-to-back games, as he hits one against Kansas City's Ed Rakow. Baltimore wins, 6 - 3, at home. Brooks hit a grand slam on May 6th.

1963: Ernie Banks becomes the first National League first baseman to register 22 putouts (and 23 chances) in a game, as the Cubs beat Pittsburgh, 3 - 1, on Dick Ellsworth's two-hitter.

1964: The Washington Senators purchased Alan Koch from the Detroit Tigers.

1972: The Oakland Athletics traded Reggie Sanders to the Detroit Tigers for Mike Kilkenny.

1973: The Reds' Johnny Bench slugs three home runs and knocks in seven runs in a 9 - 7 defeat of Steve Carlton and the Phillies. Bench homers in the 1st, walks in the 3rd, and homers again in the 5th and 7th. It is the second time Bench has hit three home runs in a game against Carlton; the first came on July 26, 1970. Bench ties a major-league record with four consecutive homers, having hit one in his final at-bat the previous night in the Reds' 7 - 1 win. Despite the three homers, Dave Concepcion's two-run homer in the 9th, off Barry Lersch, is the game-winner.

1980: Jason Thompson hits a game-winning home run in the top of the 10th to beat the Angels. Would be his last homer as a Tiger before being traded to the Angels.
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1984: Umpire Joe West ejects two television cameramen from Shea Stadium when they allow the Mets to view replays of a controversial play at the plate in which Hubie Brooks is called out. The Mets beat Atlanta, 3 - 1.

1984: The longest - and slowest - game in American League history ends in the 25th inning when Harold Baines homers off Chuck Porter to give the White Sox a 7 - 6 victory over the Brewers. It is the latest homer in history.
The game falls one inning shy of the major league record, but takes by far the most time to play: 8 hours and 6 minutes.
The contest was suspended the previous day after 17 innings with the score tied 3 - 3, and each team scores three more runs in the 21st. The Sox lose a chance to win in the 21st as runner Dave Stegman is touched by 3B coach Jim Leyland, which leads to a Sox protest. Tom Seaver pitches the final inning to earn the win, then wins the regularly-scheduled game as well, 5 - 4. Tom Paciorek of the Sox sets a major-league record as he enters the game in the 4th inning and registers nine at bats as a substitute.

1984: Tigers beat the Royals 3 - 1 to tie the 1955 Dodgers' record of 25 wins in their first 29 games.
Tigers are 13-0 on the road, chasing the 1912 Senators' 16-0 mark. Sparky's response: "I wish you hadn't told me that".
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1988: Oakland beats Detroit, 3 - 1, to extend its club-record winning streak to 14 consecutive games, the longest in the majors since 1977. The A's will finally lose tomorrow, 8 - 2 to the Tigers, after starting the skein on April 23rd.

1989: For the first time since April 10th, no major league games are shutouts, ending a streak of 29 consecutive days with at least one shutout.

1991: The Detroit Tigers released Mark Ettles.

1992: The Tigers beat the Mariners 13-0, outhitting them 19-5. Bill Gullickson pitched the complete game shutout, improving to 5-2 with a 2.92 ERA. Rob Deer homered & drove in 3. Tony Phillips had 3 RBI & 3 runs scored.

1997: The Minnesota Twins selected Kevin Jarvis off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

2006: Ivan Rodriguez makes his first career start at first base, after 1,914 games at catcher in a loss to baltimore.
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2016: The Detroit Tigers released Michael Crotta.

2017: James McCann hits his 7th home run of the year to lead AL catchers, though he has only 4 other hits and his batting average is .157 and the Tigers beat the diamondbacks 7 - 3.

2019: With a solo homer in the 3rd inning in a 13 - 0 win against the Tigers, Albert Pujols of the Angels becomes the fifth player in major league history to collect 2,000 RBIs. Many articles say he is just the third player to reach the milestone, but that is discounting the 224 RBIs collected by Babe Ruth before the statistic became official in 1920, placing him above the threshold, and the entire career of 19th century great Cap Anson.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/drillle01.shtml
Lew Drill 1904-1905.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Tom_Yewcic
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/y/yewcito01.shtml
Tom Yewcic 1957.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jacksro02.shtml
Ron Jackson 1981.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/schleda01.shtml
Dan Schlereth 2010-2012.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Prince_Fielder
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fieldpr01.shtml
Prince Fielder 2012-2013.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/krolia01.shtml
Ian Krol 2014-2015, 2021.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mallohe01.shtml
Herm Malloy 1907-1908.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mclelwa01.shtml
Wayne McLeland 1951-1952.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fletcto01.shtml
Tom Fletcher 1962.

Baseball Reference
 
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Tigers manager A.J. Hinch: "We need to play better. We've got to try to fix this over the long haul. It'll start with one game. We have not played a really good, clean game where we've come out on top in a while. This was a terrible series. We have not played well consistently."
AJHinch

MESSAGE SENT..changes would be coming..but they have nobody to sub in..who plays Hinch baseball..their CF depth was Derek Hill and Vic Reyes..Harold Castro played SS..Willi Castro played MLB games..if winning was a priority..better players at the fringes would be on the roster.
MGorosh
 
The Tigers have made the following roster moves:

- Recalled RHP Rony Garc?a from Triple A Toledo
- Optioned OF Akil Baddoo to Triple A Toledo
 
Wait?what?

The schedule is showing Oakland at Detroit this evening?then tomorrow mid morning in California Detroit at Oakland, and then later in the day tomorrow, Oakland back at Detroit.

That seems like a whole lot of traveling back-and-forth to not accomplish very much.
 
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