May 21 in Tigers and mlb history:
1901: Giants fractious owner Andrew Freedman accuses umpire Billy Nash of incompetence and bars him from the Polo Grounds. The Pirates' Chief Zimmer and the Giants' John Warner are forced to officiate. Christy Mathewson then wins his 7th straight, 2 - 1, but his scoreless streak stops at 39 innings when the Bucs score an unearned run in the 9th.
1902: At Pittsburgh, the Giants top the leading Pirates, 5 - 2, with Christy Mathewson winning in relief. Matty takes over for Dummy Taylor in the 7th, allows a tying run to score, then scores the winning run himself in the 8th.
1902: Hall of Famer Earl Averill was born this day in Snohomish, Washington.
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1904: Boston Americans SS Bill O'Neill puts himself in the record books by committing six errors in a 13-inning, 5 - 3 loss to the Browns. O'Neill makes errors in the 1st inning on the first three balls hit to him, and a fourth straight error with a misplay in the 2nd frame. His final error is on an easy grounder in the 13th inning and allows two runs to score. O'Neill is the only 20th century player to record six errors.
1907: National League president Harry Pulliam dismisses the Opening Day protests of Pittsburgh manager Fred Clarke over Roger Bresnahan's shin guards. As yet, Bresnahan is the only catcher using them.
1907: Three-Finger Brown and Christy Mathewson hook up in a pitching duel, with the Chicago ace emerging the winner, 3 - 2. Matty's batterymate Roger Bresnahan commits two errors to cause Mathewson to lose his first of the year. Mobbed at the Polo Grounds after the loss, umpires Hank O'Day and Bob Emslie require police protection.
The crowd is egged on by manager John McGraw, who will be thrown out of games seven times this year.
1908: Pitching for Kansas City of the American Association, Smokey Joe Wood hurls a 1 - 0 no-hitter against Milwaukee.
1919: The Giants deal Jim Thorpe to Braves for the waiver price of $1,500. The Olympic star will play only 60 games in Boston and will finish his six-year major league career with a lifetime .252 average.
1920: Hughie Jennings manages his 2,000th game in the majors, all with the Tigers.
1923: Formal transfer of T.L. Huston's interest in the Yankees to Jake Ruppert is completed for $1.5 million. Ten days later, Ruppert buys two more sets of uniforms so his players can wear a clean outfit every day, an unprecedented move.
1925: In a 6 - 2 loss, the Tigers and Senators tie a major league record for a 9-inning game with 9 double plays.
The record has been tied but still stands. The Reds and Braves will turn a record 10 double plays in 12 innings on June 7th.
1925: A's rookie Mickey Cochrane hits three homers to lead Philadelphia to a 20 - 4 rout over the Browns.
1930: Babe Ruth hits three consecutive home runs in the first game of a doubleheader against the A's, then batting against Jack Quinn in the 9th, Ruth decides to hit right-handed. After two strikes, he switches to lefty but strikes out. This is the first of two career 3-homer games for the Babe.
1932: Before 60,000 at Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Bombers roll over Washington, 14 - 2 and 8 - 0. Washington collects just 11 hits off Herb Pennock and Johnny Allen. In the opener, Babe Ruth homers in the 5th off Lloyd Brown and he and Lou Gehrig connect in the 6th off Frank Ragland. Tony Lazzeri is 6 for 7 on the afternoon, including a home run, two doubles and a triple.
1937: In his major league debut, Slick Coffman outduels Lefty Grove in an 11-inning complete game to give the Tigers a 4-2 win at Fenway Park.
1940: Jimmie Foxx hits a grand slam for the second day in a row against Detroit in an 11 - 8 Red Sox win. Only Babe Ruth, twice, and Bill Dickey have slammed in consecutive days in the American League. Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr and Doc Cramer also homer for Boston. Hank Greenberg and Rudy York homer for the Bengals, while Wally Moses has a pair of triples and two singles.
1941: Happy Birthday to Hall of Fame Manager Bobby Cox, born this day in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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1943: The White Sox defeat the Senators, 1 - 0, in 89 minutes, making the contest the fastest night game in American League history.
1943: Hal Newhouser endures his longest outing: 13 IP, 9 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 5 BB, 10 K.
1947: Joe DiMaggio and five other Yankees are slapped with $100 fines for not fulfilling contract requirements to do promotional duties for the Bronx Bombers.
1948: Joe DiMaggio hits for the cycle as he delivers two home runs, a triple, double and single helping the Yankees beat the White Sox, 13 - 2.
1950: Ralph Kiner's historic 475-foot triple highlights Pittsburgh's counter-intuitive twin bill sweep of the struggling Giants (incidentally elevating the cellar-bound Bucs to an unaccustomed and short-lived .500 record). Notwithstanding its adverse effect on their team, the Polo Grounds faithful are emphatic in their approval, moving Pittsburgh Press beat writer Les Biederman to observe: "The 34,972 fans never had seen anything like this Kiner liner, and when the slugger scored a moment later the customers arose to shower him with applause. As he went to left field after the inning, the fans there responded again."
1954: Boston rookie Frank Sullivan makes his first start and beats the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, 6 - 3. Sullivan strikes out Mickey Mantle three times before Mickey clocks one over the auxiliary scoreboard into the right-centerfield bleachers.
1956: The White Sox send 3B George Kell, OF Bob Nieman, and pitchers Mike Fornieles and Connie Johnson to the Orioles for P Jim Wilson and OF Dave Philley. Kell will play solid 3B until Brooks Robinson is ready, while Johnson will lead the Birds' starters in wins in 1957.
1956: At Kansas City, Mickey Mantle clouts a drive over the second and more distance fence in right field to help the Yankees win, 8 - 5. The drive, off Moe Burtschy, matches homers to that spot by Larry Doby and Suitcase Simpson.
1957: Boston baseball writers reaffirm their decision to bar women from the press box and refuse to allow Doris O'Donnell, a Cleveland feature writer traveling with the Indians, to sit in the Fenway Park press area.
1957: Jim Bunning has his longest career outing: 13 IP, 10 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 11 K, but it results in a no-decision as his Tigers prevail 2-1, over the Orioles in 16 innings.
1957: For his part in the Copacabana incident, Yankee OF Hank Bauer is arraigned. He is eventually cleared and threatens to sue the alleged victim, Edward Jones, who suffered a concussion and a broken jaw.
In today's game, Yogi Berra, Billy Martin and Whitey Ford are benched, while Bauer bats 8th. Mickey Mantle has a single, two walks, and a homer to back Bob Turley's four-hit, 3 - 0 shutout over the A's. Turley helps his cause by starting a triple play.
1959: Despite growing pressure to expand, major league owners, at a meeting at John Galbreath's farm in Ohio, decline the option to add new teams to the existing American and National Leagues. Given there are no plans for expansion, Commissioner Ford Frick will announce at a later date that Major League Baseball will "favorably consider an application for major league status within the present baseball structure by an acceptable group of eight clubs which would qualify under ten specifications."
1962: The Orioles sign veteran Robin Roberts, released by the Yankees on April 30th. Roberts will win 42 games for Baltimore before going to Houston.
1967: Earl Wilson gives Detroit its third straight win over the Yankees, 9 - 4. Mickey Mantle hits his 5th homer in six games but it's not enough for Whitey Ford, who appears in his last major league game.
1975: The Reds, entering the game with a 20-20 record, five games behind the first-place Dodgers, come from behind to beat Tom Seaver and the Mets, 11 - 4. Cincinnati will go on to win 41 of 50 games and run away with the National League West title.
1985: The Detroit Tigers traded Tom O'Malley to the Baltimore Orioles for Luis Rosado (minors).
1991: The Cleveland Indians traded Steve Cummings to the Detroit Tigers for a player to be named later. The Detroit Tigers sent Eric Stone (minors) (July 8, 1991) to the Cleveland Indians to complete the trade.
1996: In a 12 - 10 defeat of the Pirates, Larry Walker sets a Rockies club record with 13 total bases. The right fielder drives in a six runs with a pair of two-run homers, a triple and a double. Colorado tallies 20 hits. The following day, Walker will get a double and consecutive triples to set a new National League record by getting extra-base hits in six straight plate appearances. He will also tie the major league record for most extra-base hits (seven) in two consecutive games.
1996: At Fenway Park, Seattle pounds out 19 hits to beat Boston, 13 - 7. Ken Griffey, Jr. becomes the 7th-youngest player to collect 200 homers when he connects in the M's six-run 4th inning.
1999: The Detroit Tigers signed Adam Bernero as an amateur free agent.
2006: Tiger reliever Todd Jones records his 155th save as a Tiger, breaking the franchise mark held by Mike Henneman.
2010: The Detroit Tigers released Phil Dumatrait.
2014: The Tigers lose 11-10 in 13 innings in Cleveland on an Al Albuquerque walk-off balk.
2016: Michael Fulmer strikes out 11 and scatters 4 hits over 7 innings in Tigers 5 - 4 win over the rays.
2017: The Braves' Ty Cobb statue is rededicated in Cobb's hometown of Royston, Georgia.
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2018: Baseball has a new phenom as 19-year-old Juan Soto of the Nationals, making his first start ever in the outfield after striking out as a pinch-hitter in his debut the day before, crushes the first pitch he sees from Robbie Erlin of the Padres for a three-run homer. He goes 2-for-4 in 10 - 2 win by Washington. He is the first teenager to homer since teammate Bryce Harper did so in his rookie year in 2012.
2021: The Braves are the first team to hit 7 homers including 2 grand slams in a 20 - 1 win over the Pirates. Austin Riley homers twice, while Ronald Acuna and pinch-hitter Ehire Adrianza, facing off against position player Wilmer Difo, hit the slams.
Tigers players birthdays:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Doc Ayers. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Doc Ayers 1919-1921.
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Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Earl Averill. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Earl Averill 1939-1940.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Bob Molinaro. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Bob Molinaro 1975, 1977, 1983.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Bryce Florie. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Bryce Florie 1998-1999.
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Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Andrew Miller. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Andrew Miller 2006-2007.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Jacob Turner. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Jacob Turner 2011-2012, 2018.
Tigers players and coaches who passed away:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Frank Croucher. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Frank Croucher 1939-1941.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Archie McKain. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Archie McKain 1939-1941.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Herm Wehmeier. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Herm Wehmeier 1958.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Fred Gladding. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Fred Gladding 1961-1967, coach 1976-1978.
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Cot Deal coach 1973-1974.
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