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July 6 in Tigers and mlb history:

1905: The Washington Senators purchased Charlie Hickman from the Detroit Tigers.

1915: Pete Alexander fires his third one-hitter of the season, with the Giants' Fred Merkle getting the lone hit. Merkle doubles in the 2nd for New York's only baserunner in the game.

1917: Ty Cobb's hitting streak ends at 35 games as White Sox pitchers Red Faber and Jim Scott hold him hitless.
His streak began May 31. Cobb holds the American League mark of 40 straight games, set in 1912, but George Sisler will ring up 41 games in 1922.

1929: After watching the Tigers belt eight home runs on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, by Dale Alexander 1B, Earl Whitehill P, Roy Johnson LF, Dale Alexander again, Merv Shea C, Roy Johnson again, and Marty McManus 3B, the Browns use the off day to erect a screen in front of the RF pavilion. The screen stretches 156 feet from the foul pole toward CF, 310 feet down the line from home. In the next day's game, Heinie Manush will hit three balls off the screen against the Yankees' Waite Hoyt, while Babe Ruth will hit two off it in the series. This screen will remain in place into the 1940s, the only stadium with extended OF seating where it is impossible to catch a home run ball.

1933: At Chicago's Comiskey Park, the first ever All-Star Game is played. Babe Ruth's two-run home run helps the American League defeat the Senior Circuit, 4 - 2. John McGraw comes out of retirement to manage the NL squad.
Charlie Gehringer bats second for the American League in the inaugual All-Star Game at Comiskey Park. The Mechanical Man gets a single and a stolen base in the AL's 4-2 win. Gehringer plays in 6 consecutive all-star games batting .500 10 for 20.
The actual lineup cards used for the first Major League All-Star Game at Comiskey Park, Chicago - American League vs. National League.
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1935: Hank Greenberg hits his 100th RBI of the year. He sets a record for the earliest to ever do it?in the 75th game of the season for the Tigers.
The Tigers beat the Browns 7-6 on a suicide squeeze by Gee Walker in the bottom of the eighth.
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1936: After the first batter is thrown out trying to bunt, Bob Feller, a 17-year old farm boy from Van Meter, Iowa, strikes out 8 consecutive batters in three innings during an All-Star break exhibition game against the Cardinals' Gas House Gang. It is the rookie's first appearance in a major league uniform.

1938: The National League wins the sixth All-Star Game, 4 - 1, with the aid of fine pitching and four American League errors. Starter Johnny Vander Meer gets the win. Yankees hurler Lefty Gomez is defeated for the first time in four All-Star starts. National League shortstop Leo Durocher becomes the first Dodger to start in an All-Star Game.

1941: A center field monument dedicated to Lou Gehrig is unveiled by the Yankees. The memorial is a tribute by his teammates of their beloved captain who died last month of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

1942: Powered by first-inning home runs by Indians shortstop Lou Boudreau and Tigers first baseman Rudy York, the American League All-Stars defeats the National League at the Polo Grounds 3 - 1.

1955: The Detroit Tigers released Ferris Fain.

1956: Ford Frick inaugurates the Cy Young Award, to honor the outstanding pitcher each year. The BBWAA will do the voting. Only one pitcher will be honored each year until 1967, when a pitcher will be selected in each league.

1962: The Yankees edge the Twins, 7 - 5 in Bloomington, as Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris each hit a pair of home runs. The M&M boys hit back-to-back homers in the 1st inning, off Camilo Pascual (12-4), the third time in four games they've hit back-to-back shots.

1964: The National League and its umpires settle on a contract lasting until December 1969. The league provides increased pension and insurance payments.

1966: Tying an American League record, Boog Powell knocks in 11 runs in a doubleheader. In game one, the Oriole first baseman hits two home runs, including a grand slam, two doubles and a sacrifice fly to drive in seven runs in the Orioles' 11 - 0 victory over the Kansas City A's and in the nightcap he adds 4 RBIs.

1968: The Detroit Tigers released Lenny Green.

1971: Norm Cash belts a pair of 3-run homers to power the Tigers to a 12 - 7 win over the Yanks. Catcher Bill Freehan and Shortstop Ed Brinkman each have 2 hits and 5 rbi between them. Mickey Lolich goes all the way allowing just 2 of the runs as earned for the win.
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1980: Steve Carlton (14-4) becomes the major leagues' left-handed strikeout king, fanning seven Cardinals in a 8 - 3 Phillies win to bring his career total to 2,836. Mickey Lolich had held the record with 2,832.

1983: In the 50th anniversary All-Star Game at Chicago's Comiskey Park, the American League routs the National League 13 - 3 for its first win since 1971. The AL breaks the game open with seven runs in the 4th inning, highlighted by Fred Lynn's grand slam - the first ever in All-Star competition.
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1990: Jack Morris nearly throws a perfect game. He permits just one base runner, a one-out first inning single by Kurt Stillwell, who is immediately gobbled up in a double play.
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1994: At Tiger Stadium: Matthew Duprey 11 of Novi, is selected as the team?s 100 millionth fan. He throws out the first pitch, receives free merchandise, and sits in the dugout and the owner?s suite as the Tigers lose to the White Sox.
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1997: In Detroit, the Tigers top the Orioles, 14 - 9, their 3rd straight win after 11 consecutive losses. Brian Johnson and Travis Fryman homer for the Tigers while teammate Bobby Higginson adds a two-run inside-the-park homer, his fifth round tripper this week. For Scott Erickson (11-4), it is the worst start of his career for Baltimore, allowing all 12 runs, 11 earned, and 10 hits in 4 1/3 innings. Willie Blair (6-4) takes the win in relief.

2001: Cubs beat the Tigers 15-8 in their first game at Comerica Park. It's the 101st stadium the Cubs franchise has played in over its 125-year history, and their first win in Detroit since Game 5 of the 1945 World Series.

2007: The Detroit Tigers signed Avisail Garcia as an amateur free agent.

2011: The trial of Roger Clemens on accusations of perjury in his testimony to Congress in February 2008, opens today in Washington, DC with jury selection. Among the witnesses which prosecutors are planning to call on are Commissioner Bud Selig, former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre, former teammates Andy Pettitte and Jorge Posada and slugger Sammy Sosa. Clemens' attorneys also plan to call on former managers and teammates - albeit different ones - to testify on behalf of the former pitcher.

2011: The Detroit Tigers signed Eduardo Jimenez as an amateur free agent.

2015: The Detroit Tigers selected Marc Krauss off waivers from the Tampa Bay Rays.

2017: With two hits in a 4 - 3 loss to the Cardinals, Marlins OF Ichiro Suzuki becomes the all-time leader in the category for players born outside the United States with 3,054 hits, passing Rod Carew.

2018: At age 45, Bartolo Colon pitches a complete game for the Rangers in a 3 - 1 loss to the Tigers. Colon was the last active player to have played at Tiger Stadium.

2020: The Detroit Tigers released Kennys Vargas.

2022: The Arizona Diamondbacks traded Jesus Liranzo (minors) to the Detroit Tigers for future considerations.

2023: The New York Yankees selected Anthony Misiewicz off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

Tigers players, coaches, and managers birthdays:

Steve O'Neill coach 1941-1942, manager 1943-1948.

Karl Olson 1957.

Jason Thompson 1976-1980.

Omar Olivares 1996-1997.

Greg Norton 2004.

Keider Montero 2024-present.

Tigers players who passed away:

Ray Francis 1923.

Jimmy Hurst 1997.

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MID-SEASON GRADES: ROTATION.
Totally Tigers

We are just over the halfway mark of the 2026 MLB season and we’re continuing to hand out grades this week to the rotation, manager/coaches, PoBO and more. At the end, we’ll post the final results.
Today, we’re continuing the evaluation and focusing on the rotation.
Please grade each pitcher based primarily upon their ERA, WHIP, FIP and K%. Also compare each player with where he sits in the rest of the pitching roster.
To assist you in your evaluation, please refer to each player’s stats at:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/DET/2026.shtml

There are multiple votes to be cast so please make sure that you cast votes for each poll in today’s blog.

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What mid-season grade would you give Casey Mize?
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What mid-season grade would you give Keider Montero?
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What mid-season grade would you give Tarik Skubal?
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What mid-season grade would you give Framber Valdez?
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Tigers trade RHP Woo-Suk Go to the Twins, RHP Matt Seelinger to the Mets.
The two relievers couldn’t crack the Tigers bullpen, and so this says more about the state of the Twins and Mets.
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Tigers trade formerly hyped KBO pitcher to Twins despite recent surge in Triple-A.
And just when he started to get good.
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Tigers give up on viral knuckle puck pitcher with cash trade to desperate Mets.
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Detroit Tigers keep playoff hopes alive with impressive road trip.
Detroit Tigers outfielder Riley Greene stood in front of his locker, sweat dripping down his face.
“Just got in a quick lift,” Greene said, after hitting a homer, a triple and driving in four RBIs in a 6-3 victory over the Texas Rangers on Sunday, July 5.
Everybody in the Tigers' clubhouse was rushing to pack and get on a bus before heading to the airport after a tremendous six-game road trip. A critical, vital trip, really. They picked up five wins, sweeping the New York Yankees and winning two of three against the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Field.
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July 7 in Tigers and mlb history:

1900: By defeating Chicago, 11 - 4, Beaneaters hurler Kid Nichols takes only nine seasons to win 300 games. The 30-year-old righty will amass 361 victories during his 15-year career and will remain the youngest player ever to accomplish the feat.

1906: The legendary Satchel Paige was born in Mobile, AL.
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1909: Hall of Famer Billy Herman was born on this day in New Albany, IN.
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1909: Inventor George Cahill brings his portable lights to Grand Rapids, Michigan for a night game with the Zanesville Infants (Central League). The host team wins, 11 - 10, in seven innings, with the only complaints coming from the outfielders, who have trouble seeing balls hit above the lights.

1912: To fend off possible future challenges to the legality of the standard contract and its reserve clause, new wording provides for compensation to the player for the right to renew. A player's salary is specified as 75 percent for his services and 25 percent for the privilege of reserving them for the following season.

1922: Commissioner Landis bars major league teams from playing in Montreal.

1922: Pirates OF Max Carey is the busiest man on the field in an 18-inning 9 - 8 loss to the Giants. He gets six hits, draws three walks, has three stolen bases, including one of home, and catches seven flies.
His 51 stolen bases in 53 attempts is the highest success rate ever achieved by a stolen base leader, remarkable in a season where the league average success rate on steals is 54%. His record of 31 straight steals without being caught will be broken by Davey Lopes' 38 in 1975.

1923: Cleveland scores in every inning against the Red Sox, but playing at home, the team does not bat in the 9th. In the eight innings, they run up an American League-record 27 runs, including 13 in the 6th, for a 27 - 3 win. In three innings, Lefty O'Doul gives up 16 runs on 11 hits and 8 walks.

1929: Fire destroys a grandstand at Mack Park before a Detroit Stars game. Miraculously, no one is killed.
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1931: The Browns and the White Sox play a 12-inning game in which not a single strikeout is recorded. It is the longest whiffless game in major-league history. Chicago wins, 10 - 9.

1935: At a special meeting, the American League owners raise the waiver price to $7,500.

1936: The National League, having lost the first three All-Star Games, wins the 1936 All-Star Game, 4 - 3 at Boston's National League Park with four different Cub players (Augie Galan, Billy Herman, Gabby Hartnett and Frank Demaree) scoring runs.
After Dizzy Dean and Carl Hubbell each pitch scoreless three-inning stints, Curt Davis is hammered by the American League, including Lou Gehrig's home run, but Lon Warneke shuts the door.
Meanwhile, the NL is helped by Joe DiMaggio's loose fielding and error and Augie Galan's home run. Joe DiMaggio is the first rookie to play in an All-Star Game.
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The NL plays its starting lineup except for two late-inning pinch hitters. Local favorite and three-time starter Wally Berger doesn't appear.
Missing from the NL roster are Dolph Camilli and Buck Jordan, co-leaders in the batting race at .348, as well as the eventual batting champ, Paul Waner.
Charlie Gehringer goes 2-for-3 with a double in the All-Star Game
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1937: With President Franklin D. Roosevelt in attendance at Griffith Stadium in Washington, Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig drives in four runs with a home run and a double to lead the American league to an 8 - 3 victory over the National League in All-Star action.
Dizzy Dean's toe is fractured by a drive off the bat of Earl Averill. After the injury, Dean is unable to pitch with the same delivery. When he returns to action, he uses an unnatural motion, causing an arm injury from which he never recovers.
Baseball legends Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx and Hank Greenberg pose before the All-Star Game at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C.

1942: A military all-star team that includes Bob Feller, Cecil Travis, Sam Chapman, Benny McCoy, Johnny Sturm and Frankie Pytlak loses, 5 - 0, to American League stars in a game at Cleveland in front of more than 60,000 fans. Jim Bagby wins against his Indian teammate Feller. Military relief receives $160,000.

1948: The Indians stun the baseball world by signing Satchel Paige, veteran Negro League pitcher. The move is ridiculed by some as a Bill Veeck publicity stunt, and J.G. Taylor Spink in The Sporting News editorializes, "Veeck has gone too far in his quest for publicity [...] To sign a hurler at Paige's age is to demean the standards of baseball in the big circuits."
The 42-year-old Paige will answer the critics in his first game tomorrow, getting a relief decision in a 8 - 6 win over New York in a doubleheader sweep. He will finish at 6 - 1. Paige is the oldest player to debut in the majors, but not the first 40-year-old: Chuck Hostetler in 1944 was 40.
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1951: OF Hoot Evers of the Tigers goes 5 for 5 with a double and stolen base and scores 5 runs against the Indians as the motor city men roll, 13 - 3. Bob Cain is the victor with batterymate Joe Ginsberg driving in five runs on four hits.
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1954: In a loss to the white sox, Al Kaline shows off his strong and accurate throwing arm in 3 separate innings, in the 2nd inning Kaline fires a strike to catcher Frank House to nab chicago's Freddie Marsh, 3rd inning Kaline fires a strike to third baseman Ray Boone to get the speedy Jim Rivera by 5 feet, and in the 4th inning Kaline throws out and fast base stealer from the 'go go' white sox Minnie Minoso in another throw to third base. Minoso is tagged out in a rundown between 2nd and 3rd. Word gets around the American League not to run on Kaline's arm yet they still do until 1958 when Kaline leads all Outfielders with 23 assists on the season. Soon thereafter most all runners on first, second, and third watch Kaline make his catches of fly balls even to the warning track, and while standing on the base, Kaline throws a perfect strike to second, third, and home, with said base runner not moving an inch.

1959: At Forbes Field, Hank Aaron's eighth-inning single ties the score and a triple hit by Willie Mays plates Aaron with the winning run in the 5 - 4 All-Star victory in the first of the two Mid-Summer Classics to be played during the season. Don Drysdale pitches perfect ball the first three innings.

1964: Johnny Callison's 9th-inning 3-run home run off Dick Radatz caps a 4-run rally and gives the National League a 7 - 4 win in the All-Star Game at Shea Stadium. This evens the series at 17.

1968: Denny McLain, the major leagues' winningest pitcher with 16, helps Detroit take a 9 1/2 game lead in the American League at the All-Star break, as the Tigers sweep the A's, 5 - 4 and 7 - 6.
McLain wins the opener when Willie Horton clubs a 3-run homer, and the Tigers beat the A's 7-6; Lolich strikes out Reggie Jackson to save win for Sparma (7-8). Al Kaline slugs a 3-run homer in the nitecap.
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1968: Phil Regan picks up two wins in relief for the second time this season as the Cubs sweep the Pirates, 5 - 4 and 4 - 3, edging Bob Veale and Elroy Face. Regan won a pair on April 21st for the Dodgers, and no other reliever has ever won a pair twice in a season. The Vulture will the top the National League with 12 relief wins and 25 saves.

1970: The Detroit Tigers signed Steve Grilli as an amateur free agent.

1971: Commissioner Bowie Kuhn announces that players from the Negro Leagues elected to the Hall of Fame will be given full membership in the museum. It had been previously announced by Kuhn that they would be honored in a separate wing, until the Commissioner puts on a toupee with some common sense in it.

1978: Rookie Alan Trammell goes 5-for-6 in a 12-7 win in Texas.
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1979: Mike Schmidt homers in his first three times up for the Phillies, to give him a major league record-tying four straight over two games. Schmidt flies to the warning track in his next at bat, and the Phils lose, 8 - 6 to the Giants. Schmidt will hit three more home runs in the next three games to tie the National League record of seven home runs in five games.

1984: Tigers beat the rangers 5 - 2. Willie Hernandez allows one hit and strikes out 5 in 3 innings for his 16th save. Lance Parrish hits his team-leading 16th home run.
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1998: In the highest-scoring game in All-Star history, the American League beats the senior circuit, 13 - 8 in the thin air at Coors Field in Denver in the 69th All-Star Game. The 21-run total surpasses the previous record set in 1954 when the American League beat the Nationals, 11 - 9 in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. Baltimore's Roberto Alomar is named the game's MVP, going 3 for 4 with a home run, RBI, stolen base and two runs scored.

2005: The sports of baseball and softball are dropped from the for the 2012 Olympic Games scheduled to take place in London. It is the first time in 69 years that events have been cut from the games. There is criticism that these events are American-dominated, though the Cuban national team won Gold in 2004 and Australia won Silver. Japan and South Korea have appeared in the Silver Medal game in the past as well. Another reason given is that top professional players do not always appear, though Nippon Pro Baseball and the Korea Baseball Organization have routinely sent their top stars, as does the Cuban National League.

2006: The Detroit Tigers signed Jason Karnuth as a free agent.
2006: The Detroit Tigers released Hector Mercado.

2009: The Detroit Tigers signed Nate Bump as a free agent.

2017: Victor Martinez gets his 2,000th hit in a loss to the indians.


2018: JaCoby Jones makes an amazing catch to rob adrian beltre of a home run in a loss to the rangers.

2019: The Futures Game is played under a new format, with top prospects from American League teams facing their counterparts from the National League in a game shortened to 7 innings. The two sides can't determine a winner, however, in the game played at Progressive Field, as it ends in a 2 - 2 tie after 8 innings. A two-run homer by Sam Huff of the AL ties the game in the 7th, and neither team can score in the extra frame, in spite of the Schiller Rule, placing a runner on second base to start the frame, being in effect. Huff is named the winner of the Larry Doby Award as the game's MVP.

2022: The Detroit Tigers signed Nick Vincent as a free agent.

Tigers players and managers birthdays:

George Suggs 1908-1909.

George Moriarty 1909-1915, manager 1927-1928.

Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe Detroit Stars Negro Leagues 1928-1929, 1931.

Mel Clark 1957.

George Spencer 1958, 1960.

George Smith 1963-1965.

Dan Gladden 1992-1993.

Alfredo Figaro 2009-2010.

Tigers players who passed away:

Deacon White Detroit Wolverines N.L. 1886-1888.

Joe Dugan 1931.

Al Unser 1942-1944.

Vic Wertz 1947-1952, 1961-1963.

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MID-SEASON GRADES: MANAGER AND COACHES.
Totally Tigers

We are just over the halfway mark of the 2026 MLB season and we’re continuing to hand out grades this week to the rotation, manager/coaches, PoBO and more. At the end, we’ll post the final results.
Today, we’re continuing the evaluation and focusing on the manager and to a lesser degree, his coaches.
Please evaluate them primarily based upon this year. To a much smaller extent, you may consider past performance. Also consider what they’ve done with the talent they are given. The manager does not assemble the roster so he should not be graded on who is on the roster.

What mid-season grade would you give A.J. Hinch and his coaches?
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Tarik Skubal, who starts tonight vs. Athletics, is “tentatively” lined up to pitch Sunday vs. Phillies just before All-Star break, A.J. Hinch told MLBNetworkRadio. That could change, Hinch said, depending on how they use Keider Montero during the week.
 
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