April 25 in Tigers and mlb history:
1901: At Bennett Park, the Detroit Tigers make an incredible comeback in their American League debut. Trailing 13 - 4 in the bottom of the 9th inning, the Tigers score 10 runs in their last at-bat to defeat the visiting Milwaukee Brewers, 14 - 13.
Frank Dillon drives in the game-winning run with a double, his fourth of the game. Dillon's four doubles is an opening day record that will be matched in 1954. It remains the greatest 9th-inning comeback in major league history.
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1904: New York Highlanders pitcher Jack Chesbro posts the first of his 41 wins on the season, an American League record that still stands.
1916: At the Polo Grounds, Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox pitches a 10-inning complete game to defeat the Yankees, 4 - 3. Ruth gives up two earned runs on eight hits, but is hitless at the plate.
1922: In a 5 - 3 win over Detroit, Ken Williams of the St. Louis Browns hits his sixth home run in four days, off Howard Ehmke, tying Babe Ruth's 1921 feat. Williams will take the American League home run and RBI titles and become the first 30-30 man in major league history, with 39 home runs and 37 stolen bases.
1932: Mission (PCL) purchased Mark Koenig from the Detroit Tigers.
1938: 1,988 showed up at Sportsman Park to watch the Tigers demolish the Browns, 10-1.
1939: Dizzy Trout, star pitcher for the World War II Tigers, makes his debut in the major leagues.
1948: Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians ties a major league record by striking out five times in the Indians' 7 - 4 victory over Detroit
1957: The major leagues adopt a new rule that prohibits baserunners from interfering with batted balls in the field of play. The rule is adopted in reaction to recent actions by several Cincinnati Redlegs baserunners. Earlier in the week, Don Hoak and Johnny Temple had intentionally interfered with batted balls as a way of preventing double plays.
1961: Two weeks after the Boston Celtics win the NBA championship, their reserve center, Gene Conley, pitching for the Boston Red Sox, gets his first American League victory, a 6 - 1 win over the visiting Washington Senators.
1962: Catcher Harry Chiti is traded for himself when the Cleveland Indians send him to the New York Mets in exchange for a player to be named later. On June 15th, the Mets will sell Chiti back to Cleveland to complete the deal.
1967: Whitey Ford of the New York Yankees earns his final major league victory. His 236th win comes against the Chicago White Sox, an 11 - 2 decision at Yankee Stadium. Ford will enter the Hall of Fame in 1974.
1970: Earl Wilson of the Tigers does something rare: he reaches third base on a dropped third strike. After he whiffs, the Twins entire team pulls a Josh Paul and starts trotting off the field, so Detroit's third base coach tells Wilson to run.
1970: For the 7th time in his career (and the second time this week), Willie Stargell homers over Forbes Field's right field roof, a two-out, two-run blast which erases a one-run deficit and provides the final margin of victory as the Bucs beat Atlanta, 8 - 7, in a barn-burner featuring 8 doubles, one triple and 2 tape measure home runs.
1976: Chicago Cubs centerfielder Rick Monday rescues an American flag from two spectators who try to set it on fire in the outfield of Dodger Stadium. The incident happened in the 4th inning of a 5 - 4, 10-inning loss to Los Angeles.
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1984: The Detroit Tigers signed Butch Benton as a free agent.
1984: Tigers beat the Rangers 9-4 on home runs by Johnny Grubb, Howard Johnson, & Lance Parrish. Parrish?s 3-run home run kicks off a 5-run 7th inning. Willie Hernandez notches a 3-inning save. & Tigers improve to 15-1.
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1986: The Detroit Tigers signed Brian Harper as a free agent.
1986: The Detroit Tigers signed Pat Sheridan as a free agent.
1987: Billy Bean becomes the 10th player to get 4 hits in his major league debut: 2 doubles & 2 singles. Tigers get home runs from Alan Trammell, Darrell Evans, Dave Bergman, and Tom Brookens in a 13-2 blowout of the Royals.
1990: Tony Phillips celebrated turning 31 by leading off the game with a triple in the Metrodome. It was the beginning of a 3-run rally. The Tigers would go on to win 6-4.
1993: Trailing 5-1, the Tigers unleash an 8-run 7th inning and a 7-run 8th inning to clobber the Twins 16-5 at the Metrodome. Chad Kreuter & Tony Phillips hit back-to-back home runs in the 7th. Milt Cuyler hits a 3-run double in the 8th.
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1995: Major League Baseball returns after a 257-day layoff as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Florida Marlins, 8 - 7. Players had gone on strike the previous August.
1997: Ken Griffey, Jr. of the Seattle Mariners hits three home runs in a 13 - 8 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. The three homers give Griffey a major league-leading 13 on the year, and a major-league record for the month of April. The first two dingers come off Roger Clemens and the third, hit off Mike Timlin, is the 250th of Griffey's career. He also had a three-homer game in May of last year.
2001: Rickey Henderson of the San Diego Padres sets a major league record with his 2,063rd base on balls in San Diego's 5 - 3 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. The mark had been held by Babe Ruth.
2005: Tigers are snowed out in Detroit for the second straight day.
2009: The Detroit Tigers released Scott Williamson.
2013: The Miami Marlins selected Duane Below off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
2014: Tigers score 7 runs in the 3rd inning, on 5 RBI singles and a bases-loaded walk, in a 10-6 win over the Twins.
2016: Miguel Cabrera goes 4-for-4 with two home runs and a double in the Tigers' 7-3 win over the A's.
2017: Tigers score 19 runs, their highest single-game output since 2008, including 9 runs in the 5th inning and beat the mariners 19 - 9.
2018: Leonys Martin homers in each game of a doubleheader vs. the pirates. Tigers win 13-10 & lose 8-3.
2018: 20-year-old
Ronald Acuna, the
2017 Minor League Player of the Year according to
Baseball America, makes his debut as the youngest player in the majors now that his eligibility for
salary arbitration has been pushed back by a year after the
Braves delayed his call-up. His first major league hit comes in the 8th inning, and he soon comes in to score the winning run in a 5 - 4 victory over the
Cincinnati Reds.
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Fred Haney 1922-1925.
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Woody Davis 1938.
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Larry Pashnick 1982-1983.
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Tony Phillips 1990-1994.
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Jacque Jones 2008.
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Daniel Norris 2015-2021, 2022.
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Tony Mullane Detroit Wolverines N.L. 1881.
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Jack Rowe Detroit Wolverines N.L. 1886-1888.
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Bob Hazle 1958.
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