June 14 in Tigers and mlb history:
1870: In what is considered by many historians the greatest baseball game of the 19th century, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, baseball's first all-professional team sees their winning streak stopped at 89 in a wild 11-inning battle with the Atlantic of Brooklyn team, 8 - 7. The game is tied 5 - 5 after nine innings of play, and the Atlantic players are happy to have a draw but Cincinnati captain Harry Wright insists that the game be played to a decision.
The Red Stockings score twice in the 11th inning, but the Atlantic come back with three in their half to win. The game is notable as being the first extra-inning game between professional clubs, and as one of the lowest-scoring games of its day. As is the practice of the day, Atlantic continues to bat after having clinched the game, but no further runs are scored.
1912: New York Giants ace Christy Mathewson won his 300th career game vs. the Cubs and the Giants moved to 37-8. Seen here in 1912 in color, the future HOF'er went on to go 23-12/2.12 that season for the NL Pennant winners and was his 10th of 12 straight 20+ win seasons.
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1933 - Lou Gehrig's consecutive game streak stays intact, even though he and Yankees manager Joe McCarthy are thrown out of a game. McCarthy is suspended for three games but not Gehrig, whose streak, now at 1,249, continues.
1939: The Detroit Tigers traded Harry Eisenstat and cash to the Cleveland Indians for future HOF'er Earl Averill.
Will be a key pinch hitter on the 1940 pennant-winning team.
1952: Boston Braves pitcher Warren Spahn ties the National League record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts in an 15-inning, 3 - 1 loss to the Chicago Cubs. Spahn's home run is the only Braves run.
1952: The Boston Braves sign 18-year-old Henry Aaron and assign him to the Eau Claire Bears (Class C). He will play second base and be named the Northern League Rookie of the Year.
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1954: The Detroit Tigers traded Johnny Pesky to the Washington Senators for Mel Hoderlein.
1956: The Detroit Tigers signed Jim Robertson as a free agent.
1957: The Detroit Tigers traded Earl Torgeson to the Chicago White Sox for Dave Philley.
1957: Al Kaline at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium.
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1963: Duke Snider hits his 400th career home run off Bob Purkey to highlight a 10 - 3 triumph by the New York Mets over the Cincinnati Reds at Crosley Field.
1965: Jim Maloney of the Cincinnati Reds no-hits the New York Mets for 10 innings and ties a National League record with 18 strikeouts in an extra-inning game, but loses the game when Johnny Lewis hits a lead-off home run in the 11th inning that gives the Mets a 1 - 0 win.
1966: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later and Don Demeter to the Boston Red Sox for Joe Christopher and Earl Wilson.
The Detroit Tigers sent Julio Navarro (June 21, 1966) to the Boston Red Sox to complete the trade.
1968: Don Wert hits the game-winning home run in the 14th inning to beat the white sox 6 - 5.
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1968: John Hiller's season. The lefty pitcher worked as a reliever and starter, tossing the first complete game of his career this week in 1968. He tallied 9 wins, 3 holds & 2 saves with a 2.39 ERA in 128 innings pitched that year.
1969: The New York Yankees traded Tom Tresh to the Detroit Tigers for Ron Woods.
1969: Reggie Jackson of the Oakland Athletics collects 10 RBI with two home runs, a double and two singles against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. In the 8th inning, Jackson drives in three runs with a single when he easily could have made second base. Oakland wins, 21 - 7.
1974: At Anaheim Stadium, Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Boston Red Sox batters in 13 innings, including Cecil Cooper six consecutive times, to help the California Angels to a 4 - 3 victory in 15 innings. Ryan threw 235 pitches.
1979: Sparky Anderson makes his managerial debut for the Tigers in a loss to the mariners.
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1979: Willie McCovey of the San Francisco Giants hits his 513th home run, off Dennis Lamp, establishing him as the National League all-time left-handed home run leader, but the Chicago Cubs beat the Giants, 8 - 6, at Candlestick Park.
1983: Kirk Gibson hits a home run over the right field roof of Tiger Stadium in a loss to the red sox.
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1996: Cal Ripken, Jr. sets a new consecutive games record by playing in his 2,216th consecutive game. The previous mark of 2,215 was held by Hiroshima Carp third baseman Sachio Kinugasa while playing in the Japanese Central League.
2002: With all 14 interleague games - and one National League game - taking place in NL parks, a designated hitter is not used in a full slate of major league games for the first time since 1972. Visiting pitchers will have plenty of opportunities to swing the bat as there is not a home game scheduled in American League parks for 10 consecutive days.
2005: Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners becomes the third major leaguer since 1900 to reach 1,000 hits in fewer than 700 games when he singles in the bottom of the 1st inning in the Mariners' 3 - 1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. Suzuki's 1,000th hit comes in his 696th game. Chuck Klein reached the mark in 1933 in 683 games, and Lloyd Waner reached it in 1932 in 686 games.
2010: For the first time in over 60 years, two players with 5,000+ career at-bats and a .330+ career average meet in a major league contest - Albert Pujols of the Cards versus Ichiro Suzuki of the Mariners. The last such matchup had occurred in 1942 with Joe Medwick and Paul Waner.
2011: Justin Verlander comes within 5 outs of pitching his second no-hitter of the season in leading the Tigers into first place in the AL Central with a 4 - 0 win over Cleveland. He strikes out 12 in pitching a two-hit shutout, with Orlando Cabrera's 8th-inning single the first safety of the night against his overwhelming stuff.
2016: Miguel Cabrera tallies four hits, including two doubles, in the Tigers' 11-8 win over the White Sox.
2017: The Detroit Tigers drafted Will Vest in the 12th round of the 2017 amateur draft. Player signed June 19, 2017.
2017: The Detroit Tigers drafted Drew Carlton in the 32nd round of the 2017 amateur draft. Player signed June 26, 2017.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Hal Manders 1941-1942, 1946.
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Bill Fahey 1981-1983.
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Mike Laga 1982-1986.
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Michael Hollimon 2008.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Hal Woodeshick 1956, 1961.
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