May 7 in Tigers and mlb history:
1906: Wild Bill Donovan of the Tigers steals second, third, and home in the fifth inning against Cleveland. No wonder they call him wild. Added bonus: this wild baserunner is actually a star pitcher. Tigers 8-3 win in Cleveland.
1917: Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox allows only two hits as he outpitches Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators, 1 - 0, at Griffith Stadium. Ruth helps himself by driving in the winning run with a sacrifice fly.
1921: The Detroit Stars win their season opener 9-8. Charley Hill retires a runner at home plate for a game-ending double play.
1922: Ty Cobb has 5 hits for the first of a record 4 times on the season.
Ty Cobb laces out his 500th career double. By the time the "Georgia Peach" retires in 1928 he will have recorded another 224 and retires second all-time with 724 career doubles to old friend and teammate Tris Speakers' 793. Eventually Stan Musial and Pete Rose pass Cobb in the 700+ career doubles club.
1929: Hall of Fame manager Dick Williams was born this day in St Louis, MO.
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1940: The Brooklyn Dodgers become the first National League team to fly when they travel by air to Chicago from St. Louis.
1949: The Detroit Tigers traded Earl Rapp to the Chicago White Sox for Don Kolloway.
1957: Cleveland Indians pitcher Herb Score is hit on the right eye by a line drive off the bat of the Yankees' Gil McDougald in the 1st inning. The ball breaks Score's nose and damages his eye; he will miss the rest of the season.
1958: Tigers' Reno Bertoia becomes the first Italian-born major leaguer to hit a grand slam: the only one until the Mariners' Alex Liddi in 2012.
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1959: A crowd of 93,103 comes to the Los Angeles Coliseum on Roy Campanella Night to show their affection for the paralyzed former Dodger catcher. The Dodgers are beaten by the New York Yankees, 6 - 2, in an exhibition game that follows the ceremonies. The crowd is a record that will not be broken until the Dodgers return to the Coliseum for another exhibition contest on March 29, 2008.
1960: The Detroit Tigers traded Gail Harris to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Sandy Amoros.
1961: Game 1: Tigers 8, White Sox 6. Jake Wood hits a home run & a triple to drive in 3, finishing 2-for-3 with 2 walks. 4th straight win: Tigers are 15-5, up 2.5 in the AL.
1961: Game 2: Tigers 5 - White Sox 3. Rocky Colavito homers for the Tigers. Al Kaline finishes 2-for-5 with a double and a stolen base. Phil Regan strikes out 3 in a complete game win. Tigers are 16-5, up 2.5 in the AL.
1962: The Kansas City Athletics purchased George Alusik from the Detroit Tigers.
1963: Homer, Triple, and double! What a game for rookie Bill Freehan vs. the Yanks.
1967: Tigers' Joe Sparma (3-0) shuts out Orioles 4-0.
1968: Tommy Matchick hits a pinch hit 2-run double in the top of the 9th to give the Tigers a 2-1 over the Orioles and pull within 1.5 games of them in the American League. Mickey Lolich pitches 8 scoreless innings.
1984: Tigers 10 - Royals 3. Chet Lemon hits a double and triple to drive in 3 runs, Alan Trammell goes 3-for-5.
Juan Berenguer gets the win. Tigers improve to 23-4, and 12-0 on the road #Relive84
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1991: The Detroit Tigers released Tony Bernazard.
1995: Former All-Star outfielder Gus Bell dies at the age of 66. As the patriarch of a three-generation baseball family, Bell reached the 100-RBI mark four times while starring for the Cincinnati Reds. His son, Buddy, and his grandsons, David and Mike, later played in the major leagues.
2003: The Detroit Tigers signed Wendell Magee as a free agent.
2006: When Barry Bonds takes his position in left field, the Phillies fans in the stands behind him unfurl a section-long banner which says "Ruth did it on hot dogs & Beer - Aaron did it with class."
2008: Trailing 9-8 to Boston in the bottom of the 9th, the Tigers rally on an RBI groundout by Curtis Granderson and a walk-off single by Placido Polanco.
2009: The Dodgers' star outfielder Manny Ramirez is suspended for 50 games for testing positive for a banned substance. He is the most prominent player yet caught under Major League Baseball's PED policy implemented in 2005.
2010: On the other side of the age scale, Jamie Moyer still baffles opposing hitters at age 47. He tosses a two-hit shutoutas the Phillies defeat the Braves, 7 - 0. He is the oldest pitcher to record a shutout in major league history; the mark was held by Hall of Famer Phil Niekro who was 46 at the time of his last whitewash on October 6, 1985. He also becomes the first hurler to toss shutouts in four different decades.
2011: Justin Verlander pitches the second no-hitter of his career when the Tigers shut down the Blue Jays, 9 - 0.
Only an 8th-inning walk to J.P. Arencibia, who is then erased in a double play, keeps Verlander from a perfect game. Verlander becomes the 28th pitcher in major league history with two no-hitters.
2014: Tigers beat the Astros 3-2 on a 2-run home run by Miguel Cabrera and solo shot by Victor Martinez for their 8th straight win.
2016: Miguel Cabrera goes 4-for-5 but the Tigers give up 5 home runs & lose to the rangers 10 - 5.
2017: The Detroit Tigers released James Loney.
2018:
George Springer ties an
Astros team record by going 6 for 6 in a 16 - 2 win over the
Athletics. He has a double, homer and single by the end of the 4th inning, but fails in his next three at-bats to get the triple that would have completed the
cycle as he hits a single each time.
Hall of Famer Joe Morgan is the only other player to collect six hits in a game for Houston, doing so on
July 8,
1965, but in a 12-inning game.
2022: Less than two weeks after getting his 3,000th hit, Miguel Cabrera reaches another milestone with his 600th career double, only the 18th player to that total. Only two others - Hank Aaron and Albert Pujols - have compiled his combination of 3,000 hits, 600 doubles and 500 home runs.
2024: Catcher
Willson Contreras of the
Cardinals, the team's best hitter in the early going, suffers a broken left forearm when hit by the bat of
J.D. Martinez of the
Mets, putting him out of action for a prolonged period. Contreras is charged with
catcher's interference on the play, a direct result of the team asking him to take a position closer to the
batter in order to improve his
pitch framing. This is a trend arund baseball, as catcher's interference calls have in creased significantly this season.
2025: The
Detroit Tigers released
Kenta Maeda.
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Allan Travers 1912.
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Bill Coughlin 1904-1908.
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Boom Boom Beck 1944.
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Larry Foster 1963.
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Tigers 3 - Red Sox 10: Tempers flare in a blow-out as Detroit’s bats fall largely silent.
