July 12 in Tigers and mlb history:
1901: At Boston's Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds, Cy Young of the Americans seven-hits the A's, 5 - 3, to win his 300th game. The 34-year-old will win an additional 211 games to establish an amazing major league record of 511 career victories.
1905: The Detroit Tigers beat New York 6 - 3, with the help of two errors by Highlander 1B Jack Doyle. The vet Doyle was signed yesterday and this will be his only appearance for New York.
1911: In the first inning of a 9 - 0 win over the Athletics at Detroit, Ty Cobb walks, then on consecutive pitches steals second base, third base, and home off lefty Harry Krause. Twice he beats perfect throws by C Ira Thomas.
After Cobb reaches on a fielder's choice in the 3rd, Sam Crawford homers. In the 7th Cobb walks, is bunted to second, and scores on a sacrifice fly, knocking the ball out of the hands of the new catcher Paddy Livingston.
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1913: Philadelphia's Boardwalk Brown walks 15 Tigers in 7 2/3 innings, but staggers to a 16 - 9 win. Brown has only one walkless inning - the first.
Ty Cobb previously out for a week with an injured knee, plays 2B for the only time in his career, and makes three errors in his five fielding chances.
1921: Babe Ruth hits his 137th career home run, passing 19th century star Roger Connor's record of 136.
1922: Ty Cobb has 5 hits for the third of an AL-record four times on the season in the Tigers 7 - 3 win over the Philadelphia Athletics.
1928: Baseball's biggest battery is recorded, appropriately, with the New York Giants, as Garland "Gob" Buckeye, a 260-pound pro football lineman in the off-season, makes his National League pitching debut with 250-pound Shanty Hogan behind the plate. The Giants lose to the Cardinals.
1931: The largest crowd in the history of Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, 45,715 (in a ballpark with 35,000 seats), creates a travesty and permanently distorts the record for doubles hit in a game. Easy fly balls drop for ground rule doubles among the fans encroaching on the field. There are 32 doubles hit in two games, including 23 in the second game, setting records both for the most doubles in one game and in a doubleheader.
1934: Schoolboy Rowe fans 11 Yankees in a 4 - 2 win that puts the Tigers back in first place.
1943: An Armed Forces All-Star team managed by Babe Ruth and featuring Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams play a fund-raising game against the Braves in Boston. Ruth pinch-hits in the 8th and flies out to right. The All-Stars win on a Splendid Splinter home run, 9 - 8.
1949: The major league owners agree to install warning tracks made of cinder in front of outfield fences prior to the start of next season.
1949: The National League commits five errors, allowing the American League to record an 11 - 7 triumph in the All-Star Game at Ebbets Field. The contest marks the first appearance of black players in an All-Star Game: Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe in the NL lineup, and Larry Doby among the AL stars.
1951: At Cleveland, Allie Reynolds of the New York Yankees blanks Cleveland, 1 - 0, for the first of his two no-hitters this season. Gene Woodling's 7th-inning homer off loser Bob Feller is the difference in the 1 - 0 game. The Chief's no-hitter is the first by a Yankee since Monte Pearson in 1928. New York takes the nitecap behind Vic Raschi as Joe DiMaggio cinches it with a three-run homer off Chuck Stobbs.
1953: Braves slugger Eddie Mathews hits the first grand slam in the history of the Milwaukee franchise, as the Braves sweep two from the Cardinals, 10 - 1 and 4 - 3, in St. Louis.
1955: At Milwaukee's County Stadium, Stan Musial comes to bat in the bottom of 12th inning of a 5 - 5 All-Star deadlock. American League catcher Yogi Berra complains about his feet hurting and Musial tells him "Don't worry, I'll have you home in a minute"... then "the Man" hits a game-winning home run on the next pitch. The American League had taken a 5-run lead on a 3-run homer by Mickey Mantle off Robin Roberts, only to see the NL tie it. Braves P Gene Conley strikes out the side in the 12th.
1959: NBC uses outfield television cameras with 80-inch lenses to show the catchers' signals during a Yankee-Red Sox game. Commissioner Ford Frick requests that they halt its use. It doesn't help New York, which dropped its last four games to the Red Sox. Boston wins today, 7 - 3.
1966: St. Louis hosts a hot midsummer All-Star classic. Maury Wills' 10th-inning single scores Tim McCarver, as the National League wins, 2 - 1, in 105-degree heat. Brooks Robinson's stellar game (3 hits, eight chances) earns him the game MVP award. Asked about the new ballpark, Casey Stengel remarks, "it holds the heat well." On-field temperature is 113 degrees.
1968: The Tigers beat the twins 5 - 1. Denny McLain pitches a 3-hitter for his 17th win.
1969: Mickey Lolich strikes out 10 and Don Wert hits two home runs in the Tigers' 15-3 win over the indians.
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1969: Mike Cuellar of the Orioles throws a complete game 3-hitter against the Red Sox in a 4-0 shutout. All three of the Red Sox hits come off the bat of RF Tony Conigliaro, who has two singles and a double. Cuellar not only becomes the only pitcher in MLB history to have two 3-hitters in which one player has the opposing team's only three hits in the game, he does this in consecutive starts (following his win over the Yankees on July 8, 1969).
1970: Tigers tie a major league record with three sacrifice bunts in one inning. Two of the bunters reach base on errors amid a 4-run rally in the Tigers' 7-3 win over the orioles.
1976: A tentative agreement between the players and owners on labor contracts is reached. The formal agreement will be announced August 9th.
1979: Tigers-White Sox game is "postponed" after a Disco Demolition promotion goes awry at Comiskey Park.
Says new Tigers manager Sparky Anderson: "Postponed my ass. This has to be a forfeit."
After a delay of an hour and 16 minutes, the White Sox are forced to forfeit the second game of twi-night doubleheader against the Tigers when over 5,000 fans refuse to leave the field during Disco Demolition Night. Mike Veeck's promotion involves admitting fans for 98 cents with a disco record, collecting the vinyl and then literally blowing up the LPs and .45s in center field. The league will rule the game a forfeit the following day.
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1989: Ron Guidry retires from baseball. During his 14-year career with the New York Yankees, "Louisiana Lightning" compiled a 170-91 record with a 3.29 ERA.
1990: The Detroit Tigers released Matt Kinzer.
1991: Steve Searcy of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2005: During the All-Star Game Town Hall discussion, Bud Selig, believing the designated hitter is a big part of the game, states the rule will remain in use for the foreseeable future. The commissioner however makes it clear the National League will not adopt the 1973 addition to the American League rule book.
2005: The American League defeats the National League, 7-5 in the All-Star Game played at Comerica Park in Detroit. Andruw Jones, Mark Teixeira, and Miguel Tejada hit home runs and Yankee closer Mariano Rivera records the save.
2011: The National League is the winner of the 2011 All-Star Game, played in Phoenix, AZ, 5 - 1 over the American League. Prince Fielder hits a three-run homer to put the NL ahead in the 4th and wins the game's MVP award; Adrian Gonzalez accounts for the junior circuit's only run with a solo homer. Tyler Clippard picks up the win and C.J. Wilson the loss.
2016: The American League defeats the National League, 4 - 2, in the 2016 All-Star Game played at Petco Park in San Diego, CA. Royals teammates Eric Hosmer and Salvador Perez both homer in a three-run 2nd inning and Hosmer later adds another RBI to be named the game's MVP.
2017: Metallica plays Comerica Park, leaving the outfield turf ... different.
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2018: The Red Sox win their 10th game in a row as they defeat the Blue Jays, 6 - 4, thanks to 5 RBIs by Mookie Betts. He hits a grand slam off J.A. Happ to cap a five-run 4th inning, at the end of an epic 13-pitch at-bat, then adds an RBI single in the 7th as the crowd chants "MVP! MVP!" The Sox have now won 66 games, the most before the All-Star break in team history.
2019: The Detroit Tigers released Brandyn Sittinger.
2019: In their first home game since the tragic death of Tyler Skaggs on July 1st, the Angels pay tribute to their fallen teammate in the best possible way, with a 13 - 0 combined no-hitter over the Mariners. In a scheduled bullpen game, opener Taylor Cole starts things off with two hitless innings, then Felix Pena is magnificent in relief, with 7 frames during which he issues just 1 walk and strikeos out 6, retiring the final 14 batters in order. The entire Angels team wears number 45 in tribute to Skaggs and his mother throws the ceremonial first pitch in an emotional pre-game ceremony. Mike Trout goes 3 for 4 with a homer and 6 RBIs to lead the offense, as the Angels score 7 runs in the 1st to remove any doubt about the final outcome.
2021: At a press conference during the All-Star Game festivities, Commissioner Rob Manfred announces that MLB is committing to give up to $150 million to the Players Alliance over a ten-year period towards a variety of programs to support the participation of disadvantaged youth in baseball, not just as players but also in employee development, and in promoting Black baseball history and culture. Former All-Star Curtis Granderson, who heads the Players Alliance, and other current and former All-Stars are present for the announcement that makes good on a promise made the previous year for MLB to become a more visible agent of change in favor of justice and equality.
2023: The
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