Baseball Historians

September 23, 1968 at Memorial Stadium Orioles 2, Tigers 1  (101-56) The Tigers failed to set their new franchise win record for the second straight day and Denny McLain lost his sixth game of the season.  Blame the offense on this one though because McLain definitely threw a good enough game.  He gave up just [...]

September 17, 1968 at Tiger Stadium Tigers 2, Yankees 1  (98-54) The Tigers clinched their first American League pennant since 1945 with their eighth straight win.  Joe Sparma got it done in a pitcher’s duel in another September complete game and he gave up one run on five hits and one walk with two strikeouts.  [...]

September 7, 1968 at Tiger Stadium Twins 2, Tigers 1  (90-53) The Tigers outhit the Twins 8-6 but they came up short where it counted in a 2-1 loss that ended their four game winning streak.  Pat Dobson went the distance but he gave up a ninth inning run to fall to 5-6.  He gave [...]

June 23, 1968 at Cleveland Stadium
Indians 3, Tigers 0  (43-26)
The Tigers suffered their third straight loss and their second straight shutout at the hands of the Indians.  This time, the offense was held to just three hits, two of which were by Don Wert.  He singled and doubled while Tom Matchick had the only other [...]

June 16, 1968 at Comiskey Park
White Sox 3, Tigers 2  (40-22)
Mickey Lolich fell to 5-4 on the season despite a solid outing as the Tigers lost to the White Sox in the first game of their Sunday doubleheader.  He gave up three runs (two earned) on seven hits with two strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings. 
Bill [...]

June 14, 1968 at Comiskey Park
Tigers 6, White Sox 5  (40-20)
This time it was the hitters who bailed out the pitchers as the Tigers won their fifth straight contest despite needing fourteen innings to notch the win.  Earl Wilson helped out his own cause with a three run homer and Don Wert belted a solo [...]

June 4, 1968 at Fenway Park
Red Sox 2, Tigers 0  (30-19)
A pretty good start by Mickey Lolich went to waste as the Tigers dropped the first game of their doubleheader with the Red Sox.  Lolich gave up two runs on just two hits but he walked six with four strikeouts in seven innings.  For his [...]

May 26, 1968 at the Oakland Coliseum
Athletics 7, Tigers 6  (24-15)
The Tigers lost a bizare one as Joe Sparma was pummelled for six runs total in the second, third and fourth innings.  The Tigers then scored two in the fifth and four in the sixth to tie it before the game settled down and the [...]

May 22, 1968 at Metropolitan Stadium
Twins 4, Tigers 3  (23-14)
The Tigers lost their rubber game with the Twins despite coming back from two runs down to tie it in the top of the eighth.  Don Wert led off the inning with his second homerun of the game to make it a one run contest and [...]

May 11, 1968 at D.C. Stadium
Tigers 12, Senators 2  (18-9)
For the second straight game, an impressive offensive performance by the Tigers overshadowed a solid outing by the team’s starter.  Bill Freehan, Willie Horton and Don Wert all went yard in the contest and both Horton and Freehan finished with three RBIs a piece.  Mickey Stanley [...]

May 10, 1968 at D.C. Stadium
Tigers 12, Senators 1  (17-9)
The Tigers won their third straight game behind a huge game by Al Kaline at the plate and another rock solid outing on the mound by Denny McLain.  Kaline went three for four with a homerun, six RBIs and three runs.  Bill Freehan and Don Wert [...]

April 29, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Tigers 2, Athletics 1  (12-4)
The Tigers returned home to Tiger Stadium and won their sixth straight home game behind Mickey Lolich’s first win of the season.  Lolich gave up just a single run on four hits and three walks with three strikeouts in the complete game win.
Don Wert had a [...]

April 28, 1968 at Yankee Stadium
Yankees 2, Tigers 1  (10-4)
The Tigers lost a tough one in a low scoring pitchers duel.  Joe Sparma took a shutout into the eighth inning but both he and Jon Warden combined to give up two runs in the eighth to blow a 1-0 lead.  Sparma dropped to 1-2 on [...]

April 26, 1968 at Yankee Stadium
Yankees 5, Tigers 0  (9-3)
The Tigers suffered their worst loss of the short season and for the second straight time, they were shut out by the opposition.  Roy Oyler doubled and Don Wert and Earl Wilson both singled to account for the only Tiger hits of the game.
Wilson was knocked [...]

April 14, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Tigers 5, White Sox 4  (3-1)
The Tigers won their third straight in a ten inning contest in which Bill Freehan provided the heroics.  His RBI single in the bottom of the tenth inning won it for the Tigers and it capped off a great individual game for the catcher.  He [...]