June 17 in Tigers and mlb history:
1880: John Montgomery Ward of the Providence Grays pitches a perfect game against the Buffalo Bisons, winning 5 - 0. Losing pitcher Pud Galvin makes the last out. This is the second perfect game in the National League in six days; the first one was pitched by Lee Richmond on June 12th. The next perfect game by a National League pitcher will not happen for 84 years, when Jim Bunning turns the trick on Father's Day in 1964.
1916: The Chicago White Sox pound Babe Ruth with 12 hits in eight innings, including three by Shoeless Joe Jackson, to beat the visiting Boston Red Sox, 5 - 0. The loss drops Boston into sixth place.
1917: The Giants and Yankees play the first Sunday game in New York for a war charity in front of 21,000 spectators.
1925: Tigers score 13 runs in the 6th inning in a 19-1 win. Ty Cobb goes 3-for-6 with a home run.
Hooks Dauss posts his 200th career win, giving him a record of 200-170. Still the all-time leader in Wins by a Tigers pitcher with 223.
1931: Longtime umpire and future Hall of Famer Tom Connolly announces his retirement. Connolly, who had worked the first game in American League history in 1901, will become the supervisor of AL umpires.
1936: Red Ruffing of the New York Yankees sets an American League record for pitchers by recording 10 total bases. Ruffing hits two home runs as part of a four-hit day, helping the Yankees to a 15 - 4 crushing of the Cleveland Indians.
1941: Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees is credited with a hit in his 30th consecutive game when an easy grounder to shortstop Luke Appling bounces up and hits him on the shoulder. The Chicago White Sox beat the Yankees, 8 - 7
1943: Boston Red Sox player-manager Joe Cronin inserts himself as a pinch-hitter in both games of a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Athletics - and hits three-run home runs in each at-bat, becoming the first major leaguer to pinch-hit home runs in both ends of a doubleheader. The Red Sox win the opener, 5 - 4, but lose the second game, 8 - 7. Cronin will pinch-hit 42 times this year with 18 hits, including an American League record five pinch-hit homers.
1956: Milwaukee Braves slugger Joe Adcock becomes the only player to hit a home run onto the roof of Ebbets Field. Adcock hits three home runs during the doubleheader sweep of the Brooklyn Dodgers. He will go on to hit 13 career home runs at Ebbets Field, more than any other visiting player.
1958: Ozzie Virgil, who became the first black man to play for the Detroit Tigers 11 days earlier, goes 5 for 5 in his first home game at Briggs Stadium. The Dominican's performance helps Detroit beat the Washington Senators 9 - 2.
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1960: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox hits his 500th career home run against the Cleveland Indians at Cleveland Stadium. Williams' two-run shot off Wynn Hawkins helps the Red Sox beat Cleveland 3 - 1.
Williams is the fourth player in major league history to hit 500 home runs, joining Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, and Mel Ott.
Williams averaged 37 HRs/162 games in his 19 seasons.
1961: The Tigers announced today that they signed a catcher from the University of Michigan who broke a Big Ten record with a .555 batting average this spring to the largest bonus that they have ever offered, $100,000. He is a 19 year old from Royal Oak and his name is Bill Freehan.
1961: Al Kaline has a double and homerun among his 4 hits with 5 rbi in the Tigers 12 - 10 win over the yankees.
Chico Fernandez also hits a home run for Detroit.
1963: Tigers fire manager Bob Scheffing after a 7-game losing streak drops the team to 9th place in AL.
1967: A nine-hour and five-minute doubleheader between the Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Athletics sets a major league record for the longest ever. The first game includes a rain delay, and the second goes 19 innings before a Dave Duncan home run gives the Athletics a 6 - 5 victory. Detroit wins the opener 7 - 6.
1970: At Candlestick Park, Giants legend Willie Mays (615) and Ernie Banks of the Cubs (504) both hit home runs making it the first time two big leaguers with 500 home runs do it in the same game.
1977: It's one of the more famous regular-season moments of the 1970's.
In a Yankees-Red Sox game before a national TV audience on NBC's Game of the Week, star slugger Reggie Jackson and manager Billy Martin go at it in the dugout. Martin pulls Jackson from the game in mid-inning for lack of hustle, and their argument in the dugout becomes the stuff of baseball lore, cementing Jackson's reputation as a spoiled star and Martin's image as a rough manager. In that same game, Yankee pitcher Catfish Hunter has an appearance from hell, surrendering four home runs in just 0.2 innings.
1978: Ron Guidry of the New York Yankees strikes out 18 batters in a four-hit, 4 - 0 shutout of the California Angels, to set an American League record for a left-handed pitcher in a single game. Guidry, who strikes out 15 in the first six innings, posts his 11th consecutive victory without a loss.
1980: Tigers GM Jim Campbell announces the team will close the Tiger Stadium bleachers, after fans pelted Brewers players.
It will reopen June 30 with new beer sales policy and tighter security.
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1984: Tigers win 7-4 to sweep the Brewers in Milwaukee. Tigers score 5 in the 5th: Tom Brookens hits a 2-run triple, Barbaro Garbey steals home. Chet Lemon goes 3-for-5 with 2 RBIs.
1993: Baseball owners voted overwhelmingly, 26-2, in favor of expanding the playoffs for the first time since 1969.
The new system, which will begin in 1994, will double the number of teams that qualify for the postseason to eight by realigning each league to three divisions, with two teams qualifying as wild cards.
1993: The Detroit Tigers hit five home runs, including a pair each by Travis Fryman and Dan Gladden, in a 9 - 5 win over the Cleveland Indians. Fryman, Gladden, and Carlos Baerga of the Cleveland Indians also tie an American League record for three players with two or more home runs in a nine-inning game.
1994: The Detroit Tigers signed Greg Cadaret as a free agent.
1997: The Detroit Tigers selected Kevin Jarvis off waivers from the Minnesota Twins.
2000: Darin Erstad hits a double to get his 100th hit of the season, in the Angels' 10 - 3 win over Arizona. Erstad's hit comes in his 61st game, and he is the fastest to reach 100 hits since Heinie Manush in 1934.
2008: Marcus Thames became 1st Tiger since Willie Horton in 1969 to homer in 5 straight games. No Tiger has done it since. His last 8 hits have all been home runs.
2009: Ivan Rodriguez catches the 2,227th game of his career, breaking Carlton Fisk's record, in Houston's 5 - 4, 10-inning loss to his former team, the Texas Rangers. For Texas, Omar Vizquel, the all-time leader for games played at shortstop, picks up his 2,677th hit, tying Luis Aparicio for most hits by a Venezuelan player.
2012: The Detroit Tigers released Jeff Frazier.
2013: Max Scherzer of the Tigers improves to 10-0, pitching 6 innings of one-hit ball in a 5 - 1 win over the Orioles.
He is the first major league starter to go 10-0 since Roger Clemens in 1997, and just the second in Tigers history, following George Mullin, who began the 1909 season with 11 straight wins.
2016: Michael Fulmer's rookie-record scoreless innings streak stopped at 33. Miguel Cabrera has 3 hits with a home run in the Tigers loss.
2020: As MLB is taking a public relations beating for its inability to come to an agreement on how to re-start the season that was suspended in spring training, Commissioner Rob Manfred and MLBPA head Tony Clark meet for several hours in Phoenix, AZ to hash out a compromise. After the meeting, the Commissioner announces the two have developed a joint framework that they will now submit to their respective constitutents.
2021: The Diamondbacks set a new all-time mark with their 23rd consecutive road loss, bowing to the Giants, 10 - 3. Two teams had previously lost 22 straight on the road, but Arizona now proudly stands alone atop that hill. The D-Backs have gone 2-28 over their last 30 games and have the worst record in the majors at 20-50, so it's not just road games that have given them trouble. Their last road win came way back on April 25th.
2024: The
Detroit Tigers signed
Eli Villalobos as a free agent.
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