August 27 in Tigers and mlb history:
1901: Cy Young pitches a 15-inning complete game for the Boston Americans in a 2-1 win over the #Tigers.
1907: Christy Mathewson fashions a 3-hit shutout over the Cardinals and drives in the only run with a double. Ed Karger takes the hard-luck loss.
1909: The Detroitnews publishes a photo exonerating Ty Cobb in a spiking controversy.
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1911: Chicago's Ed Walsh pitches a 5 - 0 no-hitter against the Red Sox. A 4th-inning walk produces the only Red Sox runner.
After going 18-20 in 1910, Walsh bounces back to win 27 and lead the league in games (56), IP (369), and strikeouts (255).
1912: In response to demands for an alternative way to rate pitchers besides wins and losses, the National League will officially keep ERA's for the first time; the Giants' Jeff Tesreau will lead the league at 1.96. Despite an increase in .300 hitters from 22 to 32 this year, there will be 19 pitchers with ERA's under 3.00. The American League will not make ERA part of its official statistics until 1913.
1915: Detroit sweeps a doubleheader form the yankees 8 - 1, and 11 - 3.
Sam Crawford has 3 hits and 2 RBI in each game of the twin-bill.
1917: At Detroit, Ty Cobb is 3 for 4 to lead the Tigers to a 5 - 1 win over the Red Sox and lefty Babe Ruth.
1919: The Detroit Tigers purchased Sammy Hale from San Antonio (Texas).
1935: The Yankees outslug the White Sox, 13 - 10, in the first game of 2. In the second game, Lou Gehrig ties an American League record with five walks as the Yanks lose, 4 - 3.
1938: Joe DiMaggio has three triples in the first game of a doubleheader with Cleveland, an 8 - 7 win in New York. Monte Pearson has a no-hitter in the 2nd game, winning his 10th straight game, 13 - 0. The Yankees, playing their sixth successive doubleheader, increase their lead to 12 games.
1946: At the Owners' Meeting, a committee formed to study integration, which includes racist Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey, delivers its secretive report defending the covert color barrier which exists in professional baseball. The absurd reasons given why blacks shouldn't be allowed to play in the big leagues include an absence of skills due to inferior training and lack of fundamentals as well as the need to respect existing Negro League contracts, but another lesser known motivation may have been profit, as revealed later in the report: "The Negro leagues rent their parks in many cities from clubs in Organized Baseball (and) Club owners in the major leagues are reluctant to give up revenues amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars every year" and the fear white fans would be driven away if black players attracted more minorities to the ballpark.
1955: Dodger bonus baby Sandy Koufax fans 14 Redlegs in a 7 - 0 win.
1957: Stan Musial, swinging at a fourth-inning pitch, tears a muscle and chips a bone, ending his consecutive game streak. Four days later he will pinch-run in a game suspended on July 21, officially giving him 895 consecutive games played.
1961: Detroit's Rocky Colavito ties an American League record with four home runs - three in the second game with 6 rbi, in a doubleheader pummeling of the Senators 7 - 4 and 10 - 1 at Washington. Tigers pitcher Don Mossi improves to 14-3 in game 1, and Paul Foytack is the complete game winner in game 2.
1963: Tigers 4 - Angels 1, Al Kaline homers (24th) with 2 RBIs (90 on season). Kaline is unable to finish the season due to ongoing leg issues and is used as a pinch hitter late in the season.
Kaline finishes at .312/.375/.514 and once again finishes 2nd in the MVP vote (1955), and is named the Sporting News American League Player of the Year for the 2nd time (1955) in his career.
1968: Tigers lose on a walk-off single in Chicago, while the Orioles sweep a doubleheader to pull within 4 games in the AL.
It's their slimmest margin since the All-Star Break, but the #Tigers will go on to win the pennant by 12 games.
1971: Detroit's Willie Horton is struck in the eye by a pitch from Chicago's Rich Hinton, sidelining him for 28 games. Hinton, in his first major league start, lasts 2 2/3 innings in taking the loss. Joe Coleman wins.
1972: The Tigers' Willie Horton clouts an 11th-inning 2-run home run to beat Minnesota, 5 - 3, in the opener of 2.
In the nightcap, Joe Coleman pitches 11 shutout innings against Minnesota before Aurelio Rodriguez's home run gives him the 1 - 0 win. This is the 3rd win in a row for the Tigers on 11th-inning homers. Rodriguez hit one to start the streak.
1978: The Reds' Joe Morgan belts his 200th homer to become the first player in history to have 200 homers and 500 stolen bases.
1984: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later and cash to the Cincinnati Reds for Bill Scherrer. The Detroit Tigers sent Carl Willis (September 1, 1984) to the Cincinnati Reds to complete the trade.
1996: The Houston Astros traded players to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Gregg Olson. The Houston Astros sent Kevin Gallaher (minors) (August 27, 1996) and Pedro Santana (August 27, 1996) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
2003: The Detroit Tigers released Steve Sparks.
2005: Jeff Kent becomes the first player to hit 300 homers as a second baseman. The Dodger infielder, who surpassed Ryne Sandberg's total of 277 last September, is the major league leader at this position with Joe Gordon holding the American League record with 246.
2007: Tigers blast the Yankees 16-0. Justin Verlander holds New York to 3 hits in 7 innings. Placido Polanco goes 3-for-5 with a home run.
2011: Justin Verlander does not pitch one of his better starts, giving up four runs, including a pair of solo homers to Luke Hughes and Jason Repko, and leaves after giving up his second hit of the day to Drew Butera, who is hitting well below the Mendoza Line, with no out in the 6th, but his teammates pick him up and he gets credit for the Tigers' 6 - 4 win over the Twins.
This makes him the major leagues' first 20-game winner this year, the first in the majors to reach the mark in August since Curt Schilling did it with Arizona in 2002, and the first for the Tigers since Bill Gullickson in 1990.
Jose Valverde picks up the save with a perfect 9th inning. He has now converted 40 straight save opportunities over two seasons, tying Dennis Eckersley for the second-longest streak in American League history, but still 14 behind Tom Gordon's record of 54.
2014: David Price of the Tigers has a historically bad outing in a start against the Yankees. In the 3rd inning, he allows a base hit to the first 9 batters he faces before being lifted; he is the first pitcher to allow 9 straight hits since Bob Forsch on August 3, 1989, and ends up allowing 8 earned runs on 12 hits in only 2 innings, something accomplished by only three other pitchers before him. For their part, the Yankees fall one shy of the American League record for consecutive hits as they win, 8 - 4.
2018: The Detroit Tigers released Nick Tepesch.
Tigers players and managers birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bun_Troy
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/troybu01.shtml
Bun Troy 1912.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/loudeba01.shtml
Baldy Louden 1912-1913.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lindbem01.shtml
Em Lindbeck 1960.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Buddy_Bell
https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/bellbu01.shtml
Buddy Bell manager 1996-1998.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mercejo03.shtml
Jordy Mercer 2019.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/remneal01.shtml
Alex Remneas 1912.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lindbem01.shtml
Em Lindbeck 1960.
from Baseball Reference
