Hoot Evers Position: Outfielder Bats: Right • Throws: Right 6-2, 180lb (188cm, 81kg) Born: February 8, 1921 in St. Louis, MO us Died: January 25, 1991 in Houston, TX Buried: Memorial Oaks Cemetery, Houston, TX High School: Collinsville HS (Collinsville, IL) School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL) Debut: September 16, 1941 (9,127th in major league history) vs. WSH 4 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB Last Game: September 30, 1956 vs. WSH 1 AB,…
1955 – The Baltimore Orioles purchase veteran outfielder Hoot Evers from the Tigers.
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.
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.
Eleven home runs – a major league record – drive in all the runs scored in a 10 – 9 Tiger win over the Yankees before 51,000 Detroit fans. Detroit has four home runs in the 4th inning as Dizzy Trout, Jerry Priddy, Vic Wertz and Hoot Evers connect. Pitcher Trout’s home run, off Tommy Byrne, is his second lifetime grand slam. Evers hits another home run, an inside-the-park two-run game winner in the 9th off Joe Page to win it. For New York, Hank Bauer connects for two homers, including one in the 4th inning. Joe DiMaggio, Jerry Coleman, Yogi Berra and pinch hitter Tommy Henrich also belt round trippers. It is the first time that nine different players connect for homers in a game.
George Kell of the Detroit Tigers hits for the cycle in the 16 – 5 second-game sweep of a doubleheader with the Philadelphia Athletics. The Tigers win the opener, 8 – 2, behind the pitching of Ted Gray and home runs by Vic Wertz and Hoot Evers. Wertz has five runs batted in in the opener, and two more in the second game.
1948 – Detroit’s Dizzy Trout shuts out the Red Sox, 13 – 0, to stop Boston’s win streak at 13 games. Hoot Evers paces the 18-hit attack with four hits.
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