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The 2010 Detroit Tigers season was the team's 110th season. This year saw the passing of legendary Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell, and nearly saw the first perfect game thrown by a Tigers pitcher. The Tigers spent most of the season in 2nd or 3rd place.
This is a list of Detroit Tigers single-season, career, ... Sortable pitching statistics of Detroit Tigers pitchers with 200+ games or 750+ innings ... 2010–13: 7: ...
This is a list of players, both past and current, who appeared at least in one game for the Detroit Tigers, with their main position and years played. Players in Bold are members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Players in Italics have had their numbers retired by the team.
The Tigers won 101 games in 1961 but fell short of the pennant by eight games. Six years later, they finished one game short of the Boston Red Sox for the pennant after losing the last game of the year. The following year, they would take hold of the pennant with 103 victories while McLain won the MVP Award and the Cy Young Award.
In a Major League Baseball game played on June 2, 2010, at Detroit's Comerica Park, Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga nearly became the 21st pitcher in Major League Baseball history to throw a perfect game. Facing the Cleveland Indians, [a] Galarraga retired the first 26 batters he faced.
March 16 – Billy Hoeft, 77, All-Star pitcher whose career spanned 15 seasons, mainly with the Detroit Tigers. March 17 – Van Fletcher, 85, pitcher for the 1955 Detroit Tigers. March 23 Edith Barney, 87, catcher for the Grand Rapids Chicks of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Jim Colzie, 89, Negro league baseball pitcher ...
The last place 1952 team went 50–104 (.325), which was the worst season in Tigers history until the 2003 team lost 119 games. [129] [130] Despite the dismal season, starter Virgil Trucks threw two no-hitters in 1952, becoming only the third pitcher in major league history to accomplish this feat.
The Tigers finished the season with a 47–114 record, the worst in all of Major League Baseball, and their second worst season in franchise history after their 43–119 record in 2003. [491] The 2019 Tigers tied the 1939 St. Louis Browns for the most home losses (59) during a season in the modern era.