May 19 in Tigers and mlb history:
1906: Rube Waddell's no-hitter is broken up by Ty Cobb's bunt single.
1910: Cy Young wins the 500th game of his career as the Cleveland Naps beat the Washington Senators, 5 - 4, in 11 innings. He is the only pitcher in major league history to ever reach this milestone.
1915: Pirates player-manager Fred Clarke files for the patent for flip-down sunglasses designed to for use in the outfield. The future Hall of Famer also creates and will be issued patents for a sliding pad and a mechanical method of positioning the tarpaulin.
1918: Happy Finneran sent from the Detroit Tigers to St. Paul (American Association).
1933: For the first time in major league history, brothers on opposite teams hit home runs in the same game. Boston Red Sox catcher Rick Ferrell homers off his brother Wes Ferrell in the 2nd inning, but the Cleveland Indians pitcher returns the favor as he homers in the 3rd on a pitch called by his sibling. It is the only time that the Ferrell brothers homer in the same game.
1946: The Boston Red Sox purchased Pinky Higgins from the Detroit Tigers.
1948: The Detroit Tigers released Doc Cramer.
1953: The Mick, The Old Perfessor, The Duke & The Scooter! The Duke of Windsor poses with Mickey Mantle, Casey Stengel & Phil Rizzuto before a New York Yankees game at Yankee Stadium!
1956: At Forbes Field, Dale Long of the Pittsburgh Pirates hits a 9th-inning home run in a 7 - 4 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Long will hit home runs in each of his next seven games, establishing a major league record for home runs in consecutive games.
1960: Juan Marichal, in his first game with the San Francisco Giants, pitched a one-hitter to beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-0.
1962: Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals becomes the National League career hits leader. The 41-year-old has a 9th-inning single for his 3,431st hit and moves past Honus Wagner. "The Man" finishes his career with 3,630 hits, 1,815 at home, and 1,815 on the road.
1963: Bill Bruton of the Detroit Tigers ties a major league record by collecting four doubles in a 5 - 1 win vs. the Senators. Bill Faul pitches a 3-hitter in his first career start. Curiously, Bruton will total only 21 doubles on the season.
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1965: Denny McLain pitches his first career shutout and the Tigers beat the senators 4- 0.
1968: After hitting 10 home runs in six consecutive games, establishing a new major league record, Frank Howard of the Washington Senators is stopped by Detroit Tigers pitcher Earl Wilson, who defeats the Senators, 5 - 4, in the first game of a doubleheader.
1968: In the second game of a doubleheader, Al Kaline hits a two-run homer off Washington's Steve Jones to become the Tigers' all-time home run leader, surpassing Hank Greenberg. Detroit wins, 7 - 0, completing a sweep. Kaline remains the franchise leader with 399. Miguel Cabrera has 369 as a Tiger.
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1970: The lawsuit filed by former St. Louis Cardinals All-Star Curt Flood against Major League Baseball begins its hearing in federal court. Judge Irving Ben Cooper presides over the case, which will reach the Supreme Court and result in the upholding of baseball's reserve clause.
1976: Carl Yastrzemski has the only three-homer game of his career, going deep three times in a 4-for-4 day in a 9 - 2 Red Sox win over the Tigers. He victimizes three different pitchers - Dave Roberts, Steve Grilli and John Hiller.
1979: After a bitter six-week strike, the major league umpires return to work. During the work stoppage, the men in blue were replaced by amateur and minor league arbiters.
1984: Tigers beat the A's 5 - 4 and improve to 31-5.
1989: Lou Whitaker hits a 2-run homer with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th to beat the royals 2 - 0 at Tiger Stadium.
1989: The Detroit Tigers purchased Rick Schu from the Baltimore Orioles.
1989: The Detroit Tigers released Chris Brown.
2009: Dontrelle Willis wins his first game in 20 months and his first in a Detroit Tigers uniform as the Tigers shut out the Rangers, 4 - 0. Willis retires 17 batters in a row at one point and snaps the Rangers' seven-game winning streak.
2013: Miguel Cabrera hits three homers for the second time of his career, but it's not enough as Texas beats Detroit, 11 - 8. Daniel Murphy hits a three-run homer in the 6th inning for Texas, to negate Cabrera's 4-for-4, 5 RBI night. In his other plate appearance, the Rangers walk Miggy to load the bases, but Prince Fielder follows with a three-run double.
2014: The Tigers see their 11-game road winning streak ended after a very long day. Having been delayed in leaving Boston, MA, they arrive in Cleveland only three hours before game time, then extend the game when J.D. Martinez hits a pinch homer in the 9th his first homer as a Tiger, to require extra innings.
However, Michael Brantley hits a walk-off homer off Al Alburquerque in the 10th to end the game, 5 - 4.
2018: The Rays have been experimenting with "bullpen days" all season, when the starting pitcher is not expected to go deep into the game, going all out for 3 or 4 innings before handing the ball over to another reliever, but today they take it even further. Short reliever Sergio Romo starts today's game against the Angels, his first start in the majors after 588 appearances out of the bullpen, and is only asked to pitch one inning before handing the ball over to Ryan Yarbrough. The plan works perfectly as Romo strikes out the three men he faces - Zack Cozart, Mike Trout and Justin Upton, all righthanders - then hands the ball over to lefty Yarbrough in the 2nd. Yarbrough pitches scoreless ball until allowing a run in the 8th as Tampa Bay wins, 5 - 3. It is the first time a starting pitcher leaves after a perfect 1st inning since Ernie Shore had done so on October 5, 1915. Manager Kevin Cash is so pleased with how the scheme goes that he picks Romo to start the next day's game as well.
2022: The Detroit Tigers signed Drew Hutchison as a free agent.
2022: The Detroit Tigers signed Trayce Thompson as a free agent.
Tigers players birthdays:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Luis Salazar. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Luis Salazar 1988.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Brandon Inge. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Brandon Inge 2001-2012.
Tigers players who passed away:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Frank Browning. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Frank Browning 1910.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Eric Erickson. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Eric Erickson 1916, 1918-1919.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Jim Tobin. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Jim Tobin 1945.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Ed Mierkowicz. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Ed Mierkowicz 1945, 1947-1948.
The last living member of the Tigers' 1945 championship team, dies on this date 2017 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, at age 93.
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