Briggs Stadium, Detroit, Apr 25, 1955 – A very chilly spring day and the struggling Orioles of Baltimore in town is enough to keep the fans in Motown away from the ballpark. Only 1,319 (okay) were on hand to see Tigers starter Ned Garver get the complete game win by a 3-2 score
The Indians, with a 3-2 victory over Detroit, clinch the American League pennant at Detroit’s Brigg Stadium in front of only 6,913 fans. The Tribe, who will set an American League record with 111 victories, will be swept in the World Series by the Giants.
Art Houtteman, needing to retire just one more batter to author a no-hitter, throws a fastball to Harry Simpson, who rips the pitch for a single, spoiling the right-hander’s chance for immortality. The Tigers’ 13-1 triumph over the Tribe at Briggs Stadium marks the team’s first victory of the season, after dropping eight decisions to start the campaign.
Using four home runs from Stan Musial, Bob Elliott, Ralph Kiner and Gil Hodges, the National League All-Stars defeat the American League at Detroit’s Briggs Stadium in the 1951 All-Star Game. Kiner hits a home run for the third year in a row.
Hoot Evers strokes four singles and a double in the Tigers’ 13-3 rout of the Indians. The Detroit outfielder’s 5-for-5 day is a productive one when he scores five times in the Briggs Stadium contest.
Johnny Mize hits three home runs in one game for the sixth time in his career, establishing a major league record. The first baseman’s offensive output, which makes him the second player to accomplish a three-homer game in both leagues along with Babe Ruth, isn’t enough when the Yankees lose at Detroit, 9-7.
1950 – Tiger OF Hoot Evers hits for the cycle, adds another triple, and knocks in six runs in a 13 – 13, 10-inning tie with Cleveland. The game, ended because of darkness, leaves Detroit in first place by a few percentage points ahead of New York. Al Rosen and Bob Feller both hit early 2-run homers as the Indians blow three leads in the game.
Joe DiMaggio’s 300th career homer is the lone run yielded by Detroit starter Fred Hutchinson in his 2-1 complete-game win over New York at Briggs Stadium. The ‘Yankee Clipper’ joins Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mel Ott, Jimmie Foxx, Rogers Hornsby, Chuck Klein, and Hank Greenberg as the eighth major leaguer to reach the milestone.
Larry Doby ties record with 5 strikeouts in one game
1946 – In Detroit’s Briggs Stadium, Indian fireballer Bob Feller ties Rube Waddell’s strikeout mark with his 343rd K of the season. Future research, however, will show Rube Waddell had struck out 349 in 1904.
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