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Oct 13, 2013
Take a look back at the famous Red Sox comeback from the 2013 ALCS, featuring...
2013 ALCS - Game 2 (Tigers vs. Red Sox) / Take a look back at the famous Red Sox comeback from the 2013 ALCS, featuring a historic performance by David Ortiz.
The surprising 2006 Tigers make it to the World Series under manager Jim Leyland...
The Story Of The 2006 American League Champion Detroit Tigers / The surprising 2006 Tigers make it to the World Series under manager Jim Leyland
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Oct 12, 1987Oct 12, 1987
In what would turn out to be the last postseason game played at Tiger Stadium,...
1987 ALCS, Game 5: Twins @ Tigers / In what would turn out to be the last postseason game played at Tiger Stadium, the Twins would send Blyleven to the mound to face the Tigers' Doyle Alexander.
In the top of the second, Minnesota drew first blood when Tom Brunansky doubled home Gary Gaetti and Randy Bush, but was thrown out trying to stretch his hit into a triple. Dan Gladden and Kirby Puckett added RBI base hits of their own to give the Twins a 4–0 lead, and Tigers manager Sparky Anderson replaced Alexander with Eric King.
As they had several times during the series, Detroit cut the Twins' lead down to one run in the bottom of the fourth, when Kirk Gibson scored on an Alan Trammell single and Matt Nokes followed with a two-run homer that scored Trammell. In the top of the seventh, however, the Twins restored their two-run lead when Kent Hrbek singled, moved to second when Gaetti was hit by a pitch, took third on a wild pitch by King, and plated on a sacrifice fly by Bush.
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Oct 11, 1987Oct 11, 1987
The fourth game of the series matched Viola against Tiger left-hander Frank Tanana, who had...
1987 ALCS Game 4 Minnesota Twins @ Detroit Tigers / The fourth game of the series matched Viola against Tiger left-hander Frank Tanana, who had thrown a 1–0 complete-game shutout over the Toronto Blue Jays on the final day of the regular season to punch Detroit's playoff ticket.
In the bottom of the first, the Tigers gave Tanana a 1–0 lead when Lou Whitaker walked to lead off the inning and eventually scored on a throwing error by Twins shortstop Greg Gagne. However, in the top of the third, Kirby Puckett homered off Tanana to tie the game, then Gagne added a homer in the top of the fourth to give Minnesota a 2–1 lead. The Twins made it a 3–1 lead in the fifth when Puckett came home on a Gary Gaetti sacrifice fly, but the Tigers came to within a run in the bottom of the fifth when an infield hit by Kirk Gibson scored Whitaker.
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Oct 10, 1987Oct 10, 1987
My 87 games are highly edited. Sorry. 1080 Quality. All original, no scrolling...
1987 ALCS Game 3 Minnesota Twins @ Detroit Tigers / My 87 games are highly edited. Sorry. 1080 Quality. All original, no scrolling banners. Please subscribe to see old-school clips and games from the best decade in sports history. No copyright intended. Just for fun!
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Oct 8, 1987Oct 8, 1987
Minnesota took a 2-0 lead in the series with their 6-3 win in Game Two,...
1987 ALCS, Game 2: Tigers @ Twins / Minnesota took a 2-0 lead in the series with their 6-3 win in Game Two, a game best remembered for Kent Hrbek's "Couch Potato" play and for Juan Berenguer striking out four of the final five batters.
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Oct 7, 1987Oct 7, 1987
The 1987 AL playoffs opened at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, with the Tigers throwing...
1987 ALCS, Game 1: Twins vs Tigers / The 1987 AL playoffs opened at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, with the Tigers throwing Doyle Alexander against the Twins' Frank Viola. In the bottom of the second, the Twins opened the scoring when third baseman Gary Gaetti homered off Alexander to give Minnesota a 1–0 lead. However, Detroit answered back the very next half-inning, as catcher Mike Heath homered to center field to tie the game. The game remained tied until the bottom of the fifth, when the Twins erupted for three runs. Gaetti led off the inning with his second round-tripper of the game, and Randy Bush followed by stroking a triple to right field and coming home on a double by Tom Brunansky. Steve Lombardozzi sacrificed Brunansky to third, and he scored on a subsequent base hit by Dan Gladden to make it 4–1.
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Oct 4, 1987Oct 4, 1987
The Detroit Tigers squared off 7 times against the Toronto Blue Jays in an epic...
ABC Blue Jays at Tigers / The Detroit Tigers squared off 7 times against the Toronto Blue Jays in an epic run to capture the American League Eastern Division title during the final week of the 1987 season. The last three games were at Tiger Stadium in Detroit, with the Tigers sweeping the Blue Jays to win the title on the last game of the season on a 1-0 victory. The pitchers were Frank Tanana for the Tigers and Jimmy Key for the Blue Jays. Both went the distance, pitching incredible games. But this was the game of Frank Tanana's career, and the Blue Jays could not get anything going against him. The Tigers lone run was a bases empty home run early in the game from Larry Herdon. That run is not shown on this video.
The video is the ABC national broadcast featuring Al Michaels, Jim Palmer, and Tim McCarver. No copyright infringement intended.
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Oct 4, 1987Oct 4, 1987
Ernie Harwell calls the final inning as Detroit clinches the division in a 1–0 victory over Toronto in front of
Detroit Tigers Clinch 1987 AL East / Ernie Harwell calls the final inning as Detroit clinches the division in a 1–0 victory over Toronto in front of 51,005 fans at Tiger Stadium on Sunday afternoon, October 4. Frank Tanana pitched a complete game shutout, and outfielder Larry Herndon hit a second-inning solo home run for the game's only run.
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Oct 14, 1984Oct 14, 1984
For the fourth consecutive game, the Padres' starting pitcher did not make it past the...
1984 World Series, Game 5: Padres @ Tigers / For the fourth consecutive game, the Padres' starting pitcher did not make it past the third inning, as the Tigers jumped on Mark Thurmond for three runs in the first inning. Lou Whitaker singled to lead off, then Kirk Gibson homered an out later, followed by consecutive singles by Lance Parrish, Larry Herndon and Chet Lemon. The Padres got on the board in the third when Bobby Brown hit a leadoff single off of Dan Petry, moved to third on two groundouts and scored on Steve Garvey's single. The Padres rallied to tie the score in the fourth when with runners on second and third Brown's sacrifice fly and Alan Wiggins's RBI single scored a run each to knock Petry out of the game, but the Tigers loaded the bases in the fifth off of Andy Hawkins when Rusty Kuntz's sacrifice fly put them up 4–3. Parrish's home run in the seventh off of Rich Gossage made it 5–3 Tigers, but the Padres cut the lead back to one on Kurt Bevacqua's home run off closer Willie Hernández. Kirk Gibson came to the plate in the bottom of the eighth for the Tigers with runners on second and third and one out. Gibson had homered earlier in the game, and Padres manager Dick Williams strolled to the mound to talk to Goose Gossage, seemingly with the purpose of ordering him to walk Gibson intentionally. Just before the at-bat, Gibson made a US$10 bet (flashing ten fingers) with his manager Sparky Anderson that Gossage (who had dominated Gibson in the past) would pitch to him. Gossage talked Williams into letting him pitch to Gibson, and Gibson responded with a three-run blast into the upper deck to clinch the Series for the Tigers. Gibson wound up driving in five runs and scoring three, including the run that gave Detroit the lead for good when he raced home on a pop-up sacrifice fly by little-used reserve Rusty Kuntz.
In the ninth, Willie Hernández closed out the series for the Tigers by getting Tony Gwynn to fly to Larry Herndon in left field for the final out.
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Oct 14, 1984
Experience the top plays from the Detroit Tigers historic victory in Game 5 of the...
Detroit Tigers 1984 World Series Game 5 Highlights / Experience the top plays from the Detroit Tigers historic victory in Game 5 of the 1984 World Series!
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Oct 14, 1984
He don't wanna walk him....
Kirk Gibson 1984 World Series HR / He don't wanna walk him.
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Oct 14, 1984
Originally aired on Sunday evening, October 14, 1984, this is live local coverage of the...
WDIV Detroit: Tigers Win the World Series Celebration / Originally aired on Sunday evening, October 14, 1984, this is live local coverage of the Detroit Tigers' World Series victory. Some of it is clipped. WDIV is the NBC affiliate in Detroit, Michigan and this clip aired moments after the national network coverage ended.
Gerald Harrington and Debra Silverstein are at the anchor desk. Rich Mayk is live outside Tiger Stadium and DJ Gallagher reports from inside. Al Ackerman and Eli Zaret are in the locker room with interviews of Lance Parrish, Jim Campbell
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Oct 13, 1984
Jack Morris vs Erick Show...
1984 World Series Game 4: Padres @ Tigers / Jack Morris vs Erick Show
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Oct 12, 1984
Milt Wilcox vs Tim Lollar...
1984 World Series Game 3: Padres @ Tigers / Milt Wilcox vs Tim Lollar
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Oct 10, 1984
Dan Petry vs Ed Whitson...
1984 World Series Game 2: Tigers @ Padres / Dan Petry vs Ed Whitson
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Oct 9, 1984
Jack Morris vs Mark Thurmond...
1984 World Series Game 1: Tigers @ Padres / Jack Morris vs Mark Thurmond
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Sep 18, 1984
This is footage captured from an old tape from local Detroit stations covering the Tigers...
1984 Detroit Tigers Clinch AL East - Local Detroit Newscasts / This is footage captured from an old tape from local Detroit stations covering the Tigers clinching the AL East. They went on to win the World Series. Whole bunch of 80s celebrities wishing the Tigers their best.
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Sep 18, 1984
Tigers clinch the AL East in a 3-0 win over the Brewers at Tiger Stadium....
1984 Tigers clinch AL East Division / Tigers clinch the AL East in a 3-0 win over the Brewers at Tiger Stadium. Bob McClure vs Randy O'Neal
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1984
We unearthed thousands of Detroit Free Press photo negatives and one sports writer's score book...
1984 Detroit Tigers Come To Life / We unearthed thousands of Detroit Free Press photo negatives and one sports writer's score book to tell the tale of the 1984 Detroit Tigers and the "Bless You Boys" World Series championship.
5 minutes
1984
The Detroit Tigers honor Alan Trammell, Lou Whitaker, and several members of the 1984 World...
30th Anniversary of the 1984 Champion Tigers / The Detroit Tigers honor Alan Trammell, Lou Whitaker, and several members of the 1984 World Series Champion
Thirty-five years after winning the city's last World Series championship, the '84 Tigers are honored...
Celebrating 35-year anniversary of the 1984 Detroit Tigers (Part 1 of 4) / Thirty-five years after winning the city's last World Series championship, the '84 Tigers are honored at Comerica Park.
Thirty-five years after winning the city's last World Series championship, the '84 Tigers are honored...
Celebrating 35-year anniversary of the 1984 Detroit Tigers (Part 2 of 4) / Thirty-five years after winning the city's last World Series championship, the '84 Tigers are honored at Comerica Park.
Thirty-five years after winning the city's last World Series championship, the '84 Tigers are honored...
Celebrating 35-year anniversary of the 1984 Detroit Tigers (Part 3 of 4) / Thirty-five years after winning the city's last World Series championship, the '84 Tigers are honored at Comerica Park.
Thirty-five years after winning the city's last World Series championship, the '84 Tigers are honored...
Celebrating 35-year anniversary of the 1984 Detroit Tigers (Part 4 of 4) / Thirty-five years after winning the city's last World Series championship, the '84 Tigers are honored at Comerica Park.
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1984
MLB Network's "Baseball's Seasons" series takes a look at the Detroit-dominated season of 1984; also...
MLB Baseball's Seasons: 1984 / MLB Network's "Baseball's Seasons" series takes a look at the Detroit-dominated season of 1984; also examining the pennant races, achievements, events and players that made this a memorable year in baseball.
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Sep 17, 1968
Ernie Harwell calls the final out of the regular season game against the Yankees as the Tigers clinch the 1068
Tigers Clinch the 1968 AL Pennant / Ernie Harwell calls the final out of the regular season game against the Yankees as the Tigers clinch the 1068 AL Pennant for the first time since 1945.