October 6 in Tigers and mlb history:
1887: Detroit Wolverines get their 79th win of the year, 7-6 in Indianapolis. They will finish 79-45 atop the National League. They actually had more wins the year before in a 87-36 campaign, but finished second to the 90-34 Chicago White Stockings.
1908: Tigers beat the White Sox 7-0 on the final day of the season to clinch the pennant by a half game and head to their second straight World Series.
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1926: Babe Ruth hits three home runs to lead the Yankees to a 10 - 5 victory over St. Louis in Game 4 of the World Series. His 1st-inning curtain-raiser is a majestic 395-footer, exiting Sportsman's Park over its right field bleacher roof. Home run number 2 clears the roof in right center, carrying 515 feet, breaking a window on the other side of Grand Avenue. Ruth's final foray, however, is the main attraction, carrying deep into the never-before reached centerfield bleachers, far beyond the 430-foot mark. Estimated at 530 feet, it is deemed the longest home run in World Series history.
Ruth, however, not content to dominate offensively, also delivers a crucial outfield assist, cutting down a runner at the plate, ending the Cardinals' 3rd-inning rally. In the words of broadcaster Graham McNamee, "Babe Ruth nor no other man ever made a better throw. Babe shot it like an arrow and Hank Severeid did not have to move for it."
If all this weren't enough, this also is the game during which the Babe makes good on his alleged pre-game promise to hit a home run for the bedridden young Johnny Sylvester.
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1929: Tigers hit 3 triples in season finale, a loss to the white sox, and finish with 543 extra base hits, still a franchise record.
Dale "Moose" Alexander hits a home run in the final game of his rookie season. Still holds Tigers rookie records for BA (.343), hits 215, and RBI 137.
Charlie Gehringer goes 2-for-5 with a double, finishes season with AL lead or tie in runs 131, hits 215, doubles 45, triples 19, and SBs 27.
Roy Johnson goes 3-for-5 with a double & triple. Johnson, who was part Cherokee and born on a reservation in Oklahoma, finishes with 201 hits, the first rookie in major league history to get 200 hits. His 45 doubles are still a Tigers rookie record.
1934: Tigers beat the Cardinals 10-4 in Game 4 to draw even in the World Series. Hank Greenberg goes 4-for-5 with 2 doubles and a stolen base.
1935: The Tigers score all 4 of their runs in the in 4th inning for a 4-1 win in Game 4 to draw even in the World Series.
1939: Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig pose before Game 2 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium. It's the last time Lou would wear the #Yankees pinstripes.
1940: At Briggs Stadium, Bobo Newsom beats Cincinnati 8-0, in Game 5 of the World Series as 55,189 look on.
Newsom pitches a complete game shutout. Hank Greenberg hits a 3-run home run.
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1945: A goat and its owner make an appearance at Wrigley Field for Game 4 of the World Series. The pair is told to leave before the game ends, angering the owner. The Chicago Cubs lose to the Detroit Tigers, 4 - 1. Detroit will go on to win the Series in seven games and the Cubs won't win another National League championship for the rest of the 20th century. A belief that the Cubs were cursed by the goat will eventually develop.
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1946: First game of 1946 World Series and Cardinals have the shift on for Red Sox great Ted Williams. The Kid would go 1 for 3 in a Boston 3-2 win in 10 innings. Check out the mound and and circle around it that has no reason being there.
1948: In the opening game of the World Series, the Boston Braves beat Bob Feller and the Cleveland Indians, 1 - 0, with only two hits and the benefit of a disputed call on a pick-off attempt in the 8th inning by Feller.
1957: In Game 4 of the World Series, the Yankees are down, 4 - 1, with two outs in the top of the 9th when Elston Howard slugs a tying three-run homer off Warren Spahn of the Braves. The Yankees take the lead in the 10th on Hank Bauer's triple off Spahn, and are about to go up 3-1 in the series, but Milwaukee rallies in controversial fashion.
Nippy Jones leads off the bottom of the 10th and takes Tommy Byrne?s low pitch for a ball, but he argues that the ball hit him on the foot. He shows home plate umpire Augie Donatelli a smudge of shoe polish on the ball, and Donatelli reverses his call. Two batters later, Johnny Logan ties the game with a double off Bob Grim, then Eddie Mathews blasts a walk-off two-run homer to tie the series, which the Braves will win in seven games.
1960: Giddy following their team's Game 1 win over the heavily favored Yankees, Pirate fans are in for a brutal reality check, as the Big Apple Goliath walks over Steeltown's David, 16 - 3, to even the World Series at one all. This utterly uncontested affair is little more than batting practice for the Bombers, highlighted by two tremendous opposite field blasts by Mickey Mantle, the latter of which, measured at 478 feet, proves historic ? the first time within memory that any right-handed batter has hit a ball out of Forbes Field to the right of dead center.
1963: Frank Howard leads the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 2 - 1 win over the New York Yankees with a home run and a single, giving the Dodgers a four-game sweep in the World Series.
1966: Jim Palmer, at age 20, becomes the youngest pitcher with a World Series shutout as the Baltimore Orioles beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 6 - 0. Sandy Koufax is the loser in his last appearance in the major leagues. Dodgers outfielder Willie Davis commits three errors on successive plays in the 5th inning.
1968: Bob Gibson and the Cardinals pound the Tigers 10-1 at Tiger Stadium to take a commanding 3-1 lead in the World Series.
1971: The Detroit Tigers released Dean Chance.
1985: New York Yankees pitcher Phil Niekro becomes the 18th 300-game winner as he blanks the Toronto Blue Jays, 8 - 0, on the last day of the season. At age 46, Niekro also becomes the oldest pitcher to throw a shutout in major league history; he will eventually be passed by Jamie Moyer on May 7, 2010.
1991: Tigers play the final game at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore and beat the orioles 7 - 1. Frank Tanana with the CG.
2001: Todd Helton becomes the first player in major league history to have consecutive seasons with 400 or more total bases. His 7th-inning double gives him exactly 400 bases this year.
2006: Tigers shut out the Yankees at Comerica Park to take a 2-1 lead in the ALDS. Kenny Rogers pitches 7+ shutout innings, Curtis Granderson hits a home run for the Tigers, who score 5 runs off Yankees starter Randy Johnson.
2009: Detroit loses, 6 - 5, to Minnesota in a one-game playoff to determine the winner of the AL Central title. Alexi Casilla singles home the winning run with one out in the 12th inning. The Tigers had led the division by 3 games with 4 to play, and were ahead by 7 games on September 6 before sputtering down the stretch. Tigers 1B Miguel Cabrera, under a swirl of controversy over allegations of impaired driving and domestic violence, hits an early home run to put Detroit ahead, but is thrown out at home by Nick Punto in the top half of the 12th. It is the last regular-season game to be played at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.
2009: Dane Sardinha of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2010: Casey Fien of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2011: The Detroit Tigers signed Sandy Baez as an amateur free agent.
2011: The Tigers eliminate the Yankees in the ALDS for the second time in five years, taking advantage of back-to-back 1st-inning homers by Don Kelly and Delmon Young off Ivan Nova, to win, 3 - 2, in the decisive Game Five. Nova is lifted in the 2nd inning, while Doug Fister and three relievers manage to quiet the Yankees' bats to make the lead hold. Closer Jose Valverde remains perfect for the season, picking up the save with a perfect 9th inning at New Yankee Stadium.
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2012: In the first game of the ALDS, Justin Verlander of the Tigers gives up a home run to the first batter of the game, Coco Crisp, but goes on to strike out 11 over 7 innings, not giving up another run to the Athletics. The Tigers get the run back in the bottom of the 1st, take the lead with a 3rd-inning score, and complete the tally when C Alex Avila homers off Jarrod Parker in the 5th for a 3 - 1 win.
2014: Danny Worth of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2015: The Astros open the 2015 Postseason by defeating the Yankees, 3 - 0 in the American League Wild Card Game. Dallas Keuchel pitches 6 scoreless innings, allowing only 3 hits and a walk while striking out 7, while his opponent, Masahiro Tanaka, allows a pair of solo homers and is charged with the loss.
2017: The NLDS game between the Cubs and the Nationals is a true pitchers' duel between Kyle Hendricks and Stephen Strasburg. Chicago does not get its first hit until 2 are out in the top of the 6th, by Kris Bryant, but it scores Javier Baez who had reached on an error by 3B Anthony Rendon. Bryant takes second on the throw from the outfield and scores on Anthony Rizzo's single, and those two unearned runs are all Chicago needs, as they go on to win 3 - 0 and Washington only manages 2 hits.
2021: JaCoby Jones of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2021: The Dodgers, winners of a club record 106 games during the regular season, win the National League Wild Card Game, although they need a Hollywood ending. The game is tied 1 - 1 into the 9th inning, and both experienced starters, Max Scherzer and Adam Wainwright, are long gone when Chris Taylor ends the game by hitting a two-run walk-off homer with two outs off Alex Reyes for a 3 - 1 win.
2022: Miguel Del Pozo of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2022: Dustin Garneau of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Tigers players and coaches birthdays:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Carl Zamloch. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Carl Zamloch 1913.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Harry Baumgartner. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Harry Baumgartner 1920.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Dutch Meyer. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Dutch Meyer 1940-1942.
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Paul Calvert 1950-1951.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Roger Weaver. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Roger Weaver 1980.
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Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Bruce Fields. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Bruce Fields 1986, coach 2003-2005.
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Ruben Sierra 1996.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Jeff Farnsworth. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Jeff Farnsworth 2002.
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Freddie Garcia 2008.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Joey Wentz. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Joey Wentz 2022-2024.
Tigers players who passed away:
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Roy Crumpler. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Roy Crumpler 1920.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Bob Patrick. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Bob Patrick 1941-1942.
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Jim Poole 2000.
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