Baseball Historians

May 1, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Tigers 3, Twins 2  (13-5)
Willie Horton drove in Dick McAuliffe with a sac. fly in the bottom of the eighth inning to break a 2-2 tie to win their first game in the May.  With just five hits, the Tigers needed a two run homer by Jim Northrup in the [...]

May 1, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Tigers 3, Twins 2  (13-5)
Willie Horton drove in Dick McAuliffe with a sac. fly in the bottom of the eighth inning to break a 2-2 tie to win their first game in the May.  With just five hits, the Tigers needed a two run homer by Jim Northrup in the [...]

April 30, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Athletics 3, Tigers 1  (12-5)
The Tigers ended April on a losing note but they had to be happy with 12-5 record during the month.  The Tigers made three errors in this one but none of them came into play with regard to the score.  Earl Wilson fell to 2-3 and [...]

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 27, 1968 at Yankee Stadium
Tigers 7, Yankees 0  (10-3)
Denny McLain won his second straight start with his strongest outing of the season.  The win ended the Tigers two game mini-skid.  McLain gave up just five hits and two walks with six strikeouts in the complete game shutout.
Dick McAuliffe and Jim Northrup were the hitting [...]

April 24, 1968 at Cleveland Stadium
Indians 2, Tigers 0  (9-2)
The Tigers were held to just a single hit in series opening loss against the Indians.  The loss also snapped their impressive nine game winning streak.  The lone hit came in the third inning when Jim Northrup led things off with a single.
A solid start by Joe [...]