June 2 in Tigers and mlb history:
1891: Charles 'Old Hoss' Radbourn of the Cincinnati Reds wins his career 300th game by beating the Boston Beaneaters at South End Grounds, 10 - 8. Radbourn, who will finish 488 of the 502 games he started, will end his 11-year career this season with 309 victories.
1895: Johnny Bassler is born in Lancaster, Penn. Tigers catcher, 1921-27. Subject of this delightful tribute by Steven Goldman from the Hardball Times:
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21 Gnomic Meditations of Questionable Value on the Life of Johnny Bassler. from December 2018.
1915: At the Polo Grounds, Babe Ruth and the well-traveled Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees, 7 - 1. It is the last stop on a 29-day road trip for the Red Sox. Ruth allows five hits and hits his second career home run, a three-run shot off Jack Warhop in the 2nd inning. After his homer, Ruth receives two intentional walks. He ends up kicking the bench and breaking his toe, sidelining him for two weeks.
1925: 21-year-old Lou Gehrig starts a game for the New York Yankees when regular first baseman Wally Pipp is hit in the head during batting practice and complains of a headache - in fact a concussion. Gehrig collects three hits in five at-bats, helping the Yankees to an 8 - 5 victory over the Washington Senators. Gehrig will go on to play in a major league record 2,130 consecutive games, a record since broken by Cal Ripken with a streak of 2,632.
1925: White Sox come back from 15-5 to tie the game, but Ty Cobb hits a walk-off home run for the 16-15 win.
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1933: The Detroit Tigers traded Whit Wyatt to the Chicago White Sox for Vic Frazier.
1935: Babe Ruth of the Boston Braves announces his retirement from baseball. Struggling with a .181 batting average at the time, he retires with 714 home runs, by far the most in major league history. Ruth will gain election to the Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class next year.
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1941: Lou Gehrig dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at the age of 37 in New York. From that time on, the illness will be known primarily as "Lou Gehrig's Disease". Gehrig saw his major league record of 2,130 consecutive games played end because of the disease. It was on this day exactly 16 years ago that he broke into the Yankees' starting line-up.
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1942: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists as a Naval Aviator. Williams will finish the season with his team, as will many other players who enlisted or await the draft, which moves slowly despite the early discouragements of the war.
Other American League regulars of 1941 enlisted in the military service include Johnny Berardino, Sam Chapman, Bob Feller, Joe Grace, Buddy Lewis, Pat Mullin, Johnny Rigney, Johnny Sturm and Cecil Travis.
1950: George Kell of the Detroit Tigers hits for the cycle in the 16 - 5 second-game sweep of a doubleheader with the Philadelphia Athletics. The Tigers win the opener, 8 - 2, behind the pitching of Ted Gray and home runs by Vic Wertz and Hoot Evers. Wertz has five runs batted in in the opener, and two more in the second game.
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1952: The Detroit Tigers signed Johnny Hopp as a free agent.
1958: The Baltimore Orioles purchased Lou Sleater from the Detroit Tigers.
1961: Tigers 2 - Twins 0. Al Kaline homers and finishes 2-for-4. Rocky Colavito also goes deep for the Tigers. Jim Bunning pitches a 4-hit complete game. The Tigers are 30-16, up 2 games in the AL.
1967: The Detroit Tigers released Johnny Klippstein.
1980: The Detroit Tigers traded Al Greene and John Martin to the St. Louis Cardinals for Jim Lentine.
1984: Story on DH Rusty Kuntz in the Toledo Blade. Career .216 hitter is batting .447
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1986: Rod Carew announces his retirement from baseball at the age of 40. Carew leaves the game with a .328 career batting average, compiled over 19 major league seasons. A former Minnesota Twins and California Angels infielder, Carew will gain election to the Hall of Fame in 1991.
1986: The Detroit Tigers drafted Phil Clark in the 1st round (18th pick) of the 1986 amateur draft. Player signed June 4, 1986.
1986: The Detroit Tigers drafted Milt Cuyler in the 2nd round of the 1986 amateur draft.
1986: The Detroit Tigers drafted Bill Bean in the 4th round of the 1986 amateur draft.
1986: The Detroit Tigers drafted Scott Aldred in the 16th round of the 1986 amateur draft. Player signed August 21, 1986.
1986: The Detroit Tigers drafted Chris Hoiles in the 19th round of the 1986 amateur draft. Player signed June 7, 1986.
1987: The Detroit Tigers drafted Steve Pegues in the 1st round (21st pick) of the 1987 amateur draft. Player signed June 3, 1987.
1987: The Detroit Tigers drafted Travis Fryman in the 1st round (30th pick) of the 1987 amateur draft. Player signed June 6, 1987.
1987: The Detroit Tigers drafted Rob Richie in the 2nd round of the 1987 amateur draft.
1987: The Detroit Tigers drafted Riccardo Ingram in the 4th round of the 1987 amateur draft. Player signed May 22, 1988.
1987: The Detroit Tigers drafted Torey Lovullo in the 5th round of the 1987 amateur draft. Player signed June 7, 1987.
1987: The Detroit Tigers drafted Derek Lee in the 8th round of the 1987 amateur draft, but was not signed.
1987: The Detroit Tigers drafted Mike Schwabe in the 21st round of the 1987 amateur draft.
1987: The Detroit Tigers drafted Rusty Meacham in the 33rd round of the 1987 amateur draft. Player signed May 11, 1988.
1990: Randy Johnson no-hits the Tigers. He becomes the first Mariner to throw a no-hitter.
1994: The Detroit Tigers drafted Mike Darr in the 2nd round of the 1994 amateur draft. Player signed June 18, 1994.
1994: The Detroit Tigers drafted Bubba Trammell in the 11th round of the 1994 amateur draft. Player signed June 7, 1994.
1994: The Detroit Tigers drafted Daryle Ward in the 15th round of the 1994 amateur draft. Player signed June 14, 1994.
1994: The Detroit Tigers drafted Javier Cardona in the 23rd round of the 1994 amateur draft. Player signed June 4, 1994.
1994: The Detroit Tigers drafted Dave Roberts in the 28th round of the 1994 amateur draft. Player signed June 9, 1994.
1994: The Detroit Tigers drafted Kiko Calero in the 41st round of the 1994 amateur draft, but was not signed.
1998: The Detroit Tigers drafted Jeff Weaver in the 1st round (14th pick) of the 1998 amateur draft. Player signed August 1, 1998.
1998: The Detroit Tigers drafted Nate Cornejo in the 1st round (34th pick) of the 1998 amateur draft. Player signed August 6, 1998.
1998: The Detroit Tigers drafted Brandon Inge in the 2nd round of the 1998 amateur draft. Player signed June 27, 1998.
1998: The Detroit Tigers drafted Adam Pettyjohn in the 2nd round of the 1998 amateur draft. Player signed June 22, 1998.
1998: The Detroit Tigers drafted Andres Torres in the 4th round of the 1998 amateur draft. Player signed June 23, 1998.
1999: The Detroit Tigers drafted Eric Munson in the 1st round (3rd pick) of the 1999 amateur draft. Player signed June 24, 1999.
1999: The Detroit Tigers drafted Cody Ross in the 4th round of the 1999 amateur draft. Player signed June 12, 1999.
1999: The Detroit Tigers drafted Eric Eckenstahler in the 32nd round of the amateur draft. Player signed May 25, 2000.
1999: The Detroit Tigers drafted Jason Frasor in the 33rd round of the 1999 amateur draft. Player signed June 4, 1999.
2000: Tigers play their first game at Wrigley Field since the 1945 World Series.
Hideo Nomo scatters 4 hits over 6+ innings for Detroit, but the Tigers are shut out 2-0. Chicago Cubs reliever Rick Aguilera pitches a perfect ninth inning for his 300th career save in the Chicago victory.
2005: The New York Yankees are swept by the team with the worst record in the majors (16-37), falling 5 - 2 to the Kansas City Royals for their first five-game losing streak in more than two years. Kansas City pitchers allow just six runs in the series. It is the third time in their storied history the Yankees have been swept in three games by the team with the worst record in the major leagues. The other times were in 2000, by the Detroit Tigers, and 1937 by the Philadelphia Athletics. The Royals had gone 78 series without sweeping anyone, the longest drought in the majors since the Phillies went 79 series without a sweep in 1996 and 1997.
2010: After retiring the first 26 batters of the game, Tiger pitcher Armando Galarraga coaxes Jason Donald of the Indians to hit a groundball to first base. Galarraga takes the throw in time to retire Donald but first base umpire Jim Joyce rules the runner safe. As a result, the Tiger righty loses a perfect game. After the game, Joyce admits his mistake and the next day he and Galarraga meet at home plate in a sign of sportsmanship.
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2010: Ken Griffey Jr. announces his retirement after 22 seasons in the major leagues. Hitting only .184 in part-time duty for the Mariners, he retires with 630 career home runs and six seasons of 40 or more homers.
Most of his career was spent with Seattle and the Cincinnati Reds.
2015: The Milwaukee Brewers selected Hernan Perez off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
2017: Tigers observe a moment of silence at Comerica Park for Jim Bunning after his death.
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2017: On the 92nd anniversary of blowing a 15-5 lead against the White Sox, the Tigers beat the White Sox 15-5.
2017: Miguel Cabrera becomes the 39th major leaguer to reach 1,000th extra-base hits.
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2017: Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers records his 2,000th career strikeout, the victim being Jonathan Villar, one of 14 K's on the night for Kershaw. He is the third fastest pitcher to the mark, needing 1,837 2/3 innings, after only Pedro Martinez and Randy Johnson. Max Scherzer is about to catch him, however, as he only needs 19 Ks to reach the mark while having pitched 100 fewer innings than Clayton.
The Dodgers win the game, 2 - 1, in 12 innings, while recording a team-record 26 strikeouts and both teams combine for a National League record 42 whiffs.
Cody Bellinger homers in the top of the 12th for Los Angeles, while winner Kenley Jansen has now struck out 36 batters without issuing a single walk this year, a major league record.
2018: Jacob deGrom matches a career high set just two weeks earlier by racking up 13 strikeouts in 7 innings in a start against the Cubs, but the NL ERA leader has to settle for another no-decision as the game is decided in 14 innings. Seven relievers add another 11 strikeouts to give the Mets 24,
2 shy of the all-time mark for an extra-inning game, but it's the Cubs who break through with 6 runs in the top of the 14th, highlighted by Albert Almora's two-run double off Buddy Baumann, to win, 7 - 1. Luke Farrell pitches 5 scoreless innings in relief to pick up the win.
Tigers players and coaches birthdays:
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Lou Skizas 1958.
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Jerry Lumpe 1964-1967.
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Jack Pierce 1975.
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Gene Michael 1975.
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Darnell Coles 1986-1987, 1990, coach 2014.
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Neifi Perez 2006-2007.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Joe Casey 1909-1911.
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