August 21 in Tigers and mlb history:
1886: Jack Rowe hits for the cycle for the Detroit Wolverines.
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1901: In Baltimore, Orioles pitcher Joe McGinnity is tossed for spitting in the face of umpire Tom Connolly. When Detroit's Kid Elberfeld intervenes, he is decked by Baltimore's Mike Donlin. Bill Keister also gets involved, as do some fans, and the police, who arrest the players and a fan. Judge Harry Goldman, a part-owner of the O's, releases the players and fines the fan $100.
1905: The Giants run past the Pirates, 10 - 2, with Christy Mathewson defeating Deacon Phillippe. New York swipes five bases including a steal of home by Art Devlin.
1917: Now with the Philadelphia Phils, Chief Bender, 34, pitches his third straight shutout, winning 6 - 0 over the Cubs. In his last active season, Bender will turn in four shutouts and win eight with two losses and a 1.67 ERA. His mound partner from the glory days of the A's, Eddie Plank, will also close out his career, ending the season 5-6 for the St. Louis Browns with a 1.79 ERA.
1921: White Sox hurler Ted Lyons pitches a no-hitter, beating the Red Sox at Fenway Park, 6 - 0.
1926: At St. Louis, the largest crowd of the season cheer as the Browns sweep a pair from the Yankees, winning 5 - 4 and 10 - 0.
1931: Babe Ruth becomes the first major leaguer to hit 600 career home runs as the Yankees defeat the Browns, 11 - 7.
1932: Wes Ferrell becomes the first 20th-century pitcher to win 20 or more games in each of his first 4 seasons, beating Washington, 11 - 5.
1934: Schoolboy Rowe gets his 15th straight win as Tigers beat the red sox 8 - 4.
1945: Rudy York goes 3-for-5 with a home run, but the Tigers lose to the Athletics 7-6. They split a doubleheader while Washington wins to trim the Tigers' lead in the pennant race to one game.
1948: Representatives of Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela, meeting in Havana, agree to stage a 4-country round-robin 12-game tournament to be known as the Serie del Caribe (Caribbean Series) and to be launched in Cuba during February 1949. The Dominican Republic and Mexico will also later participate on a regular basis.
1951: Bob Feller wins his 20th, stopping the Senators, 4 - 0, and keeping the Indians a game ahead of the Yankees. Feller is the American League's first 20-game winner this season.
1953: Major league player representatives Ralph Kiner (National League) and Allie Reynolds (American League) hire labor leader John Norman Lewis at $15,000 per annum to give legal advice to players in their negotiations with the owners.
1960: In the 28th year of the Negro Leagues East-West Game, the last game at Chicago's Comiskey Park was played before approximately 5,000 spectators and almost no media coverage. The West squad beat the East 8-4. The game would be played for two more years in other cities before ending.
1961: In their first appearance in Boston since moving to Milwaukee, the Braves defeat the Red Sox, 4 - 1. Warren Spahn pitches the first inning, striking out rookies Chuck Schilling and Carl Yastrzemski. The exhibition game is for the benefit of the Jimmy Fund.
1968: Monte Irvin is named special assistant to Commissioner William Eckert.
1968: Jim Price hits a pinch hit walk-off home run in the 10th inning to beat the White Sox 3 - 2 at #TigerStadium.
1971: Mickey Lolich allows six hits as Detroit beats the Brewers 7 - 2. It is Lolich's 20th win of the year.
1980: After giving up a first-inning single to Rob Wilfong, Jack Morris one-hits the twins for a 4 - 2 Tigers win at Met Stadium. He still managed to give up two unearned runs on Roy Smalley rbi groundouts in the first and ninth innings.
1981: #Tigers win over the rangers 7 - 4, Yankees lose, Tigers move into a half game lead in the AL East.
1982: Brewer reliever Rollie Fingers become the first player in major league history to record 300 career saves as Milwaukee defeat the Mariners, 3 - 2.
1984: At Detroit, Lance Parrish cracks a first-inning grand slam off Lary Sorensen, Darrell Evans goes 4-for-5 with a 3-run home run, and the Tigers drive by the A's 12 - 6. Milt Wilcox goes six innings for the win. #Tigers are 83-44.
1987: Dale Murphy hits his 300th career home run as Atlanta beats Pittsburgh, 5 - 4. He stroked his 1500th hit on August 5.
Andre Dawson belts his 39th and 40th home runs of the season and Lee Smith picks up his 30th save in Chicago's 7 - 5 win over the Astros.
1993: The Tigers trade OF Rob Deer to the Red Sox for a player to be named. Deer will homer tomorrow in his first at bat for the Sox.
1993: The Detroit Tigers signed Joe Boever as a free agent.
1996: The Detroit Tigers released Mark Parent.
1997: Curtis Pride of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2011: The Tigers score 7 runs off Cleveland's Ubaldo Jimenez in the 3rd, including homers from Delmon Young and Victor Martinez, but the Indians slowly claw back. In the 4th, both benches are warned when Tigers starter Rick Porcello throws a pitch behind Asdrubal Cabrera shortly before being chased from the game. In the 6th, Tigers manager Jim Leyland is ejected by third base umpire Alan Porter for arguing a tag play at the base on Wilson Betemit.
Detroit closer Jos? Valverde then pitches the 9th with a one-run lead, but puts the first two men he faces on base courtesy of a walk and a hit-by-pitch. After Jack Hannahan's successful sacrifice bunt, he gets pinch-hitter Matt LaPorta to fly to short center field; CF Austin Jackson then unloads a superb throw to the plate that nails Kosuke ***udome trying to score from third base, for a spectacular game-ending double play. Detroit completes a three-game sweep with the 8 - 7 win and Valverde has now been perfect in all 37 of his save opportunities this year.
2013: With a 1st-inning single off Toronto's R.A. Dickey, Ichiro Suzuki gets his 4,000 hit between Japan (1,278) and the United States (2,722). He is only the third player to reach the milestone at such a high level, following Ty Cobb and Pete Rose, who both collected all their hits in the United States major leagues. Only one other Japanese player, Isao Harimoto, had 3,000 hits.
2014: David Price allows 1 hit and 1 unearned run in a 1-0 loss to his former team, the Rays. He becomes the first pitcher in major league history to lose a complete game one-hitter with no walks and no earned runs.
2015: The Detroit Tigers released Marc Krauss.
2016: The Detroit Tigers released Bobby Parnell.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Gerry Staley 1961.
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Andujar Cedeno 1996.
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Dean Crow 1998.
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J.D. Martinez 2014-2017.
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Dustin Molleken 2016.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Lew Post 1902.
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Rufus Smith 1927.
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George Quellich 1931.
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Bob Uhl 1940.
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Russ Kerns 1945.
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