May 10 in Tigers and mlb history:
1895: During the course of a 14 - 4 win over St. Louis, Philadelphia slugger Sam Thompson becomes the third man in National League history to hit 100 home runs in a career.
1897: Nap Lajoie slugs two home runs and a double to lead the Phillies to a 13 - 1 rout of St. Louis. Lajoie continues the hitting streak he started on May 8th and will not go hitless until May 31st, a string of twenty games.
1904: The Cards beat Christy Mathewson, scoring 5 runs and knock him out after the first inning. St. Louis continues the shelling to win, 14 - 1. Matty, now 4-2, will not lose to St. Louis in his next 24 decisions.
1909: The White Sox edge the Senators, 1 - 0, in 11 innings, handing Walter Johnson his second straight 1 - 0 loss on his way to a 20th century record ten losses by shutouts. For the Nationals, it is their third straight 1 - 0 loss, tying a mark set by the Browns two weeks ago.
1911: The Detroit Tigers lose their first home game of the year, 6 - 2, as New York hands George Mullin his first loss.
The Tigers have a 21 - 2 record and will lead the pack until July 4th.
1913: The Yankees commit eight errors, but still end up beating the Tigers, 10 - 9 in 10 innings.
1913: Walter Johnson two-hits the White Sox to run his consecutive string of scoreless innings pitched to 52 2/3.
1916: Led by Tris Speaker's two hits and three runs, Cleveland tops the Red Sox and Babe Ruth, 6 - 2.
1926: At Yankee Stadium, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth hit back-to-back homers off Tiger starter Sam Gibson, and the Yankees outscore the Tigers, 13 - 9.
1927: Ty Cobb, now with the Athletics, hits a double in his return to Detroit as the Tigers lose 6 - 3.
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1934: Lou Gehrig hits two home runs (one a grand slam) and a pair of doubles, tying the record with four long hits, and drives in seven runs, but leaves the game after five innings with a severe cold. The Yanks top the White Sox, 13 - 3. During the game Ben Chapman shouts racial remarks at a Jewish fan. In 1947, he will lead the dugout bigots in protest of Jackie Robinson.
1936: Joe Sullivan, Detroit pitcher, weakens after 12 innings of scoreless relief and Cleveland edges Detroit, 9 - 7. Sullivan takes over for Elden Auker in the 2nd and is splendid before losing in the 15th.
1936: By beating the A's, 7 - 2, at home the Yankees move into first place and will remain there the rest of the season. Rookie Joe DiMaggio makes his belated home debut and hits his first home run, off George Turbeville. Lou Gehrig has four hits and two RBIs and Johnny Murphy, in his first start of the season, picks up the win.
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1936: In Washington, the Senators top the A's and Lefty Grove, 4 - 0. Grove had come into the game having allowed just one earned run in his previous 48 innings.
1941: Mayo Smith, who went on to manage the 1968 World Champion Detroit Tigers, hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the 11th inning, to give Buffalo a dramatic 7-6 walk-off win over the Newark Bears.
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1944: Mel Harder wins his 200th career game as Cleveland defeats the Red Sox, 5 - 4. He is the 50th to reach this mark.
1946: Before a Friday Ladies' Day crowd at Yankee Stadium of 64,183, the first-place Red Sox take their 15th straight game, a 5 - 4 win over the Yankees. Earl Johnson gets the win with four innings of scoreless relief. A Joe DiMaggio grand slam accounts for all the Bombers' scoring.
1948: The Detroit Tigers released John McHale.
1953: Vic Raschi makes his first relief appearance in two years, limiting the Red Sox to three hits in four innings, as the Yankees win, 7 - 4. Billy Goodman sustains a freak rib accident, which will keep him out of action for three weeks, when Jim Piersall picks him up and lugs him from the field to break up Goody's argument with umpire Jim Duffy.
1956: At Yankee Stadium, Bob Lemon gives Cleveland a 7 - 2 win over the Yankees. Mickey Mantle has a solo homer in the 6th for New York. By the end of the month, Mantle will have hit his 20th homer and will be batting .425 with 50 RBIs.
1958: Tigers name Bill Norman as their new manager, replacing Jack Tighe.
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1959: The Yanks sweep two from the Senators at Yankee Stadium, winning 6 - 3 and 3 - 2 in 10 innings. Mickey Mantle's homer in the 3rd inning of the opener starts the Yanks scoring as they beat Chuck Stobbs. Mantle singles and scores the winning run in the 10th inning of the nitecap. Yogi Berra has a home run in the nitecap and sets a new major-league record for consecutive errorless games by a catcher with 148.
1960: Joe Ginsberg of the Orioles loses a struggle with Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckler, and ties the record set six days earlier by teammate Gus Triandos with three passed balls in one inning.
1961: The Cincinnati Reds traded Jim Baumer to the Detroit Tigers for Dick Gernert.
1961: Tigers 7 - Senators 1. Jake Wood, Steve Boros, and Dick Brown each have 2 hits. Jim Bunning pitches a 5-hit complete game.
Tigers are 18-6, up 3 in the AL.
1962: Minnesota's Lenny Green and Vic Power hit back-to-back home runs off Cleveland's Jim Perry to start the game, tying a major league record. Cleveland comes back to win, 9 - 4. It will be another nine years before two leadoff batters in the American League belt homers, and it will be Perry teeing up those as well.
1965: At Fenway Park, the 9th-place Yankees lose again, 3 - 2, when Carl Yastrzemski outhits a hobbling Mickey Mantle. Yaz hits a pair of homers and a sacrifice fly, while Mantle is 3 for 4 with a homer. After Mantle doubles with two outs in the 9th, starter Jim Lonborg is lifted and Dick Radatz gets the final out. It is Lonborg's first major league win.
1966: The Los Angeles Dodgers sent Johnny Podres to the Detroit Tigers as part of a conditional deal.
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1966: The Philadelphia Phillies purchased Terry Fox from the Detroit Tigers.
1967: The Detroit Tigers purchased Ethan Blackaby from the California Angels.
1967: In the 8th inning against Jim Bunning of the Phillies, Hank Aaron drives a ball to deep center field and scores ahead of the relay. It will be the only inside-the-park home run among his 755.
1968: Denny McLain pitches a CG 12 - 1 win at Washington, Al Kaline hits a single, double, home run, and 6 RBI as the Tigers pass the first-place Orioles. The Home Run is Kaline's 306 and tied him with Hank Greenbereg as the Franchises All-Time Leader.
Detroit will remain in the lead for the rest of the season.
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1970: The Braves' Hoyt Wilhelm becomes the first major league pitcher to appear in 1000 games. Atlanta loses 6 - 5 to the Cardinals.
1976: The Detroit Tigers signed Steve Baker as an amateur free agent.
1987: Darrell Evans hits a 2-run home run in the bottom of the 8th to give the Tigers the 7-6 win over oakland.
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1988: Tigers beat the A's 8 - 2 to snap their 14-game winning streak.
1999: Pete Rose, banned from all aspects of the game by Commissioner Giamatti in 1989, appears as a special instructor for the newly created Sacramento Steelheads. The team plays in the Western Baseball League which is independent, and therefore not governed by Major League Baseball.
2000: The Detroit Tigers signed Rich Becker as a free agent.
2002: The Angels score 8 runs in the 3rd inning on their way to a 19 - 0 rout of the White Sox. The Haloes join the 1923 Indians, 1939 Yankees and 1950 Red Sox as the only teams to beat two opponents by 19 or more runs in the same season. Earlier this year, the Angels beat the Indians, 21 - 2. The Anaheim destruction of Chicago is just the 11th since 1901 in which a team scored 19 or more runs while shutting out its opponent, and the first such shutout in the American League since 1955, when Cleveland beat Boston, 19 - 0.
2010: On the night they pay tribute to long-time broadcaster Ernie Harwell, who passed away last week, the Tigers beat New York, 5 - 4, with key contributions from three former Yankees.
Johnny Damon, signed as a free agent in the off-season, hits a home run in his first game against his former team, while Austin Jackson drives in a run and Phil Coke gets two key outs late in the game.
Jackson and Coke were both obtained in a trade for OF Curtis Granderson, who is on the disabled list.
2012: The Baltimore Orioles become the first team in American League history to lead off the game with three consecutive homers, as Ryan Flaherty, J.J. Hardy and Nick Markakis go deep to open the bottom of the 1st; it has been done three times in the National League. The last team to homer in its first three at-bats was the Milwaukee Brewers on September 9, 2007. Hardy also was the middle man in that spree. Colby Lewis, who surrenders the three longs balls, exits with an unusual pitching line: 7 innings pitched, 5 hits - all home runs - one walk and 12 strikeouts. Adam Jones and Wilson Betemit also homer off Lewis, the latter following the lone walk, issued to Matt Wieters. Baltimore wins, 6 - 5, with Wei-Yin Chen getting the win over Lewis.
2016: The Detroit Tigers signed Angel De Jesus as a free agent.
Tigers players and managers birthdays:
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Ed Barrow manager 1903-1904.
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Tim Hosley 1970-1971.
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John Cummings 1996-1997.
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Marino Santana 1998.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Luke_Putkonen
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Luke Putkonen 2012-2014.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Matt_Tuiasosopo
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Matt Tuiasosopo 2013.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Brayan_Villarreal
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Brayan Villarreal 2011-2013.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/JaCoby_Jones
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JaCoby Jones 2016-2021.
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Edward Mujica 2017.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ed_Willett
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Ed Willett 1906-1913.
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Tom Seats 1940.
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