Tigers’ manager Alan Trammell becomes the 1st new manager to begin 0-8 since 1904

Tigers’ manager Alan Trammell becomes the 1st new manager to begin 0-8 since 1904

  VINTAGE BASEBALL MEMORABILIA Vintage Baseball Memorabilia April 10, 2003 – The Kansas City Royals down the Detroit Tigers‚ 4-2‚ sending Detroit to its 8th straight defeat to start the season. Tigers’ manager Alan Trammell becomes the 1st new manager to begin 0-8 since Malachi Kittridge began the 1904 season at 0-13 with the Washington…

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The Colts (now Cubs) bat out of order twice in same game

6/17/1891 – The Colts (now Cubs) played in Cleveland. Through the seventh inning, the Colts’ Bill Hutchinson batted in Malachi Kittridge’s place in the batting order but the Spiders let it go. In the seventh, Fred Pfeffer walked and Hutchinson, batting out of turn, singled, moving Pfeffer to third. As Kittridge stepped to the plate, the Spiders told umpire Tim Lynch that Hutchinson batted out of turn. This out ended the inning, killing the Colts’ rally.

Bill Phillips becomes the first pitcher to allow two grand slams in the same inning

Bill Phillips becomes the first pitcher to allow two grand slams in the same inning, when Tom Burns and Malachi Kittridge both take the Alleghenys’ right-hander deep in the same frame of an 18-5 loss to the Chicago Colts. In 1999, Chan Ho Park will match the dubious feat, but will have the distinction of giving up both bases-full homers to the same batter, Fernando Tatis of the Cardinals.