August 10 in Tigers and mlb history:
1904: Jack Chesbro is knocked out by the White Sox after pitching 30 complete games in a row. For the year he will win 41 games, pitching 48 complete games out of 51 starts for the Highlanders. All are post-1900 records. His 455 innings pitched will be topped only by Ed Walsh's 464 in 1908.
1905: In a great pitching duel, New York ace Christy Mathewson allows three Chicago hits, while the Giants manage just four off Ed Reulbach. New York tallies an unearned run in the 6th for the game's only score.
Catchers are not expected to hit triples, but Boston Beaneater backstop Pat Moran legs out a trio of three-base hits against the Pirates.
1908: Twenty thousand fans, the largest ever to watch a Monday game, crowd the Polo Grounds to see the matchup of Christy Mathewson and the Cubs' Orval Overall. Matty doesn't disappoint, winning, 3 - 2.
1911: The Detroit Tigers club announces that a new grandstand, costing $300,000, will be built for the 1912 season.
1915: In Washington, Detroit 3B Ossie Vitt is hit by a Walter Johnson fastball and, after being knocked out for five minutes, leaves the game with a concussion. A rattled Johnson then allows four runs in the first inning, two runs on a 2-run homer by George Burns, and another four through the 6th inning to lose (he will be 17-2 at home this year). Ty Cobb, observing Johnson's fear of hitting a batter, will begin to crowd the plate on the Washington ace from here on. Cobb will average .435 for the rest of his career against Walter, after topping .222 only once in the previous eight years.
1917: Babe Ruth beats the Tigers, 5 - 4, giving up just four hits. The Babe's drive into the CF bleachers, said to be the longest hit at Fenway Park, is the difference. The homer is Babe's first of the year.
1924: Ty Cobb steals second base once, third base twice, and home once in the Tigers' 13 - 7 win over Boston that puts them on top in the American League.
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1929: Pitching for the visiting Cards, Grover Alexander beats the Phils, 7 - 1, for his 373rd and last National League victory. It is noted at the time that he ties Christy Mathewson for NL wins. Relieving after eight innings, he pitches four scoreless relief innings to win, 11 - 9, in 12 innings of the nitecap. The Phils take the opener, 7 - 1. Alexander will be sent back to St. Louis on August 20th after one too many curfew violations and finish the season at 9-8.
1930: At Fenway Park, Detroit's Earl Whitehill wins his 9th straight, beating the Red Sox, 4 - 2. The Sox score their two runs in the 9th. Detroit collects nine hits, but John Stone goes hitless ending his 23-game hitting streak.
1945: The Detroit Tigers released Pat McLaughlin.
1947: With five hits, Stan Musial finally lifts his average over .300, and the Cardinals make a run at the Dodgers, sweeping the Pirates, 5 - 0 and 7 - 5. Murry Dickson allows four hits in the shutout. Musial will finish at .312, and the Cards, five games back of Brooklyn.
1957: Mickey Mantle blasts a 460-foot homer to become the first player to clear the center-field hedge at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore as the Yankees beat the Orioles, 6 - 3.
1960: Ted Williams hits a pair of homers and a double to pace the Red Sox to a 6 - 1 win over the Indians. Ted has 21 homers for the season. The first of the two today, #512, moves Ted past Mel Ott into 4th place on the all-time list. After the game, Williams announces that he will retire at the end of the season.
1961: The Detroit Tigers selected Ron Kline off waivers from the Los Angeles Angels.
1966: Chuck Dressen dies of a heart attack in Detroit, age 67. He had managed the Tigers earlier in the season.
1969: 'Day of Infamy'. Mayo Smith fires great pitching coach Johnny Sain, who was instrumental in the Tigers' 1968 championship.
1971: Sixteen baseball researchers at Cooperstown form the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), with founder Robert Davids as president.
1971: The Giants' Juan Marichal pitches the 50th shutout of his career, a 1 - 0 squeaker over Montreal. He leads all active hurlers in this category.
1971: Harmon Killebrew becomes the 10th player to amass 500 home runs, and adds his 501st, but the Orioles beat the Twins, 4 - 3.
1984: Ruppert Jones hits a go-ahead home run in the 8th and Willie Hernandez earns his 25th save to give the #Tigers a 5-4 win over the royals.
1986: The Detroit Tigers released Dave Engle.
1986: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later and Ken Hill to the St. Louis Cardinals for Mike Heath. The Detroit Tigers sent Mike Laga (September 2, 1986) to the St. Louis Cardinals to complete the trade.
1989: Dave Bergman singles to break up a Nolan Ryan no-hitter with one out in the 9th in a loss to the rangers.
1991: The Tigers win twice at Yankee Stadium; 5-1 and 4-0. Mark Leiter went 7 innings allowing the 1 run for the win in the first game. Walt Terrell pitched a complete game shutout in game 2. Lou Whitaker homered during the 1st victory.
1995: Kirk Gibson's final career appearance. Goes 0-for-2 with a walk in three plate appearances in a loss to Texas.
1995: The Detroit Tigers traded Mike Henneman to the Houston Astros for a player to be named later. The Houston Astros sent Phil Nevin (August 15, 1995) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
1996: The Tigers beat the Yankees 13-7. Damion Easley batted leadoff, going 3-5 with 4 RBI. Easley started the game with a home run off Jimmy Key. Travis Fryman and Andujar Cedeno also had 3 hits and a home run each.
1999: Major league umpires drop the federal lawsuit which they filed July 26.
2001: The Royals defeat the Tigers, 7 - 3, in a game marked by a 6th-inning brawl set off when Kansas City 1B Mike Sweeney charges Detroit P Jeff Weaver after Weaver calls him a profane name. Numerous punches are thrown as both benches and bullpens clear. After a 12-minute delay, the game resumes with Sweeney, KC coach Al Nipper, and Detroit coach Doug Mansolino ejected from the contest. Sweeney will be suspended 10 games for his actions, and Detroit catcher Robert Fick eight games. Five other players and four coaches will also be disciplined.
2012: The Detroit Tigers released Matt Young.
2012: Austin Jackson runs wild as the Tigers defeat Texas, 6 - 2. He triples in the 4th to score Detroit's first run, then after the Bengals score four runs to go ahead in the 6th, he caps the scoring in the 7th with the Tigers' first inside-the-park homer in five years when Nelson Cruz makes an ill-advised attempt to catch his drive rather than let it bounce in front of him for a double; the ball skips past Cruz all the way to the wall. Prince Fielder hits a three-run homer for Detroit as Max Scherzer is the winner over Scott Feldman.
2014: The Blue Jays defeat the Tigers, 6 - 5, in the longest game in team history in terms of both time and innings, thanks to a run-scoring single by Jose Bautista in the 19th inning, after 6 hours and 37 minutes of baseball. The winning hit comes off Rick Porcello, normally a starter but pressed into action by the length of the game. Melky Cabrera is the first player since Rod Carew on May 12, 1972 to reach base 8 times in a game. Chad Jenkins throws 6 scoreless innings for the win. The Tigers take an early 5 - 0 lead against starter Mark Buehrle who is chased in the 4th, but the Jays claw back and tie the game in the bottom of the 9th.
2018: The Detroit Tigers signed Zach McAllister as a free agent.
Tigers players and coaches birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Rocky_Colavito
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/colavro01.shtml
Rocky Colavito 1960-1963.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Tom_Brookens
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brookto01.shtml
Tom Brookens 1979-1988, coach 2010-2013.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/anderjo03.shtml?redir
Josh Anderson 2009.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lyonbr01.shtml
Brandon Lyon 2009.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jeff_Frazier
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/frazije01.shtml
Jeff Frazier 2010.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Anthony_Gose
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gosean01.shtml
Anthony Gose 2015-2016.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dendema01.shtml
Matt den Dekker 2017.
Tigers players and managers who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hugheto03.shtml
Tom Hughes 1930.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Chuck_Dressen
https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/dressch01.shtml
Chuck Dressen manager 1963-1964, 1965-1966.
from Baseball Reference
