Baseball Historians

October 10, 1968 at Busch Stadium
Tigers 4, Cardinals 1
Tigers Win Best of Seven Game Series 4-3
The Tigers and Mickey Lolich saved the best for last as the Tigers completed a historic comeback to secure their first World Series win since 1945.  In a first time battle between both team’s best postseason pitchers, it was Mickey [...]

October 7, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Tigers 5, Cardinals 3 
Cardinals Lead Best of Seven Game Series 3-2
The Tigers avoided elimination for at least one day as they closed out Tiger Stadium for the season.  They needed a huge fielding play by Willie Horton as well as some timely hitting to lock up the win but still, [...]

October 3, 1968 at Busch Stadium
Tigers 8, Cardinals 1
Best of Seven Game Series Tied 1-1
The Tigers bounced back in a big way as they evened their series with the Cardinals behind an eight run, thirteen hit attack.  Nelson Briles took the brunt of it and before the Cardinals scored their lone run, the Tigers already [...]

September 29, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Senators 3, Tigers 2  (103-59)
The Tigers finished their regular season with a whimper as they dropped their third straight game in a series sweep at the hands of the Senators.  The Tigers scored two in the first then failed to score the rest of the way as the Senators won [...]

September 24, 1968 at Memorial Stadium
Tigers 5, Orioles 3  (102-56)
The Tigers entered new territory with their 102nd win of the season.  The previous franchise record of 101 wins was set back in 1934 and tied in 1961, but this was definitely a team for the ages as the Tigers made history with a truly memorable [...]

September 20, 1968 at D.C. Stadium
Tigers 6, Senators 3  (100-54)
The Tigers won their tenth straight and in the process, they reached the 100 win mark for just the fourth time in franchise history.  They were hoping they wouldn’t repeat history though because the other three times they won 100, they couldn’t get that World Series [...]

September 15, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Tigers 13, Athletics 0  (96-54)
The Tigers continued to roll in a number of ways.  They not only ran up the score on the A’s, but Mickey Lolich threw a shutout and the Tigers cut their magic number down to just two.  Lolich continued to build on his strong second half [...]

September 9, 1968 at Anaheim Stadium
Tigers 6, Angels 0  (91-54)
Mickey Lolich had one of his best starts of the season as the Tigers snapped a two game losing streak.  He gave up just two hits and a walk with seven strikeouts in the shutout win which pushed his record to 14-9 on the season.
Willie Horton, [...]

September 2, 1968 at the Oakland Coliseum
Athletics 4, Tigers 0  (86-52)
The Tigers were held to four hits in a shutout loss as the Tigers kicked off their series with the A’s with a pair of games.  Bill Freehan had two of the Tigers hits while Willie Horton was the tough luck hitter at the plate.  [...]

August 29, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Tigers 2, Angels 0  (84-50)
The Tigers made it two straight over the Angels behind a three hit shutout by Mickey Lolich.  He gave up just one walk and he struck out twelve and the win pushed his record to 13-8 on the season.
Willie Horton pretty much was the Tigers offense [...]

August 25, 1968 at Yankee Stadium
Yankees 6, Tigers 5  (81-48)
The Tigers blew a four run lead as they dropped their third straight to the Yankees in another doubleheader.  Pat Dobson gave up the first five runs in 5 2/3 innings but it was Daryl Patterson who gave up the final run, and for that he [...]

August 22, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Tigers 4, White Sox 2  (81-45)
Some fireworks flew as the Tigers finished up their series with the White Sox in winning fashion.  The Tigers jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning when things went south in the third inning.  Tommy John threw two balls at Dick McAuliffe’s [...]

August 14, 1968 at Cleveland Stadium
Tigers 3, Indians 0  (76-43)
The Tigers won their rubber game with the Indians behind a combined shutout by Joe Sparma and Mickey Lolich.  Sparma got into trouble and in the fourth inning and he pitched  3 1/3 shutout innings when Mickey Lolich came in to get the Tigers out of [...]

August 11, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Tigers 5, Red Sox 4 (73-42)
A long day was made even longer as the Tigers and Red Sox kicked off a doubleheader with a 4 1/2 hour, 14 inning contest.  The Tigers were down 4-0 after the Red Sox scored four in the first but the pitching staff held the [...]

August 10, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Tigers 4, Red Sox 3  (72-42)
The Tigers came back from a 3-1 deficit to bounce back and beat the Red Sox.  The Tigers scored single runs in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings to complete the comeback and the game winner came on a solo homer by Norm Cash.  The [...]

July 1, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Tigers 5, Angels 1 (49-27)
The Tigers kicked off the month of July with an impressive win behind the arm of Mickey Lolich.  He gave up just a single run on five hits with fourteen strikeouts in the complete game win.
Bill Freehan provided the bulk of the offense with a pair [...]

June 25, 1968 at Yankees Stadium
Tigers 8, Yankees 5 (46-26)
The Tigers piled on twelve hits and eight walks to win their third straight game.  Willie Horton led the way and he went two for five with a triple, two runs and two RBIs while Jim Northrup tripled, drove in two and drew two walks.
Mickey Lolich [...]

June 21, 1968 at Cleveland Stadium
Indians 4, Tigers 3 (43-24)
The Tigers blew a thirteenth inning lead as they dropped their series opener to the Indians.  Jim Northrup had doubled home Mickey Stanley in the top of the thirteenth inning but Pat Dobson gave up a two run homer in the bottom of the inning and [...]

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 12, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Tigers 2, Twins 1 (38-20)
The Tigers made it three straight over the Twins behind a solid outing by Mickey Lolich.  He improved to 5-3 and he gave up one run on five hits and two walks with nine strikeouts in the complete game.
Dick McAuliffe was the hiting star.  He went [...]

June 8, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Tigers 3, Indians 1  (35-19)
Mickey Lolich was fantastic as he pitched the Tigers to their fifth straight win.  He gave up just a single run on seven hits without a single walk and he struck out ten.  The win pushed his record to 4-3 on the season.
Mickey Stanley was a [...]

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 31, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Tigers 1, Yankees 0  (28-16)
The Tigers closed out the month of May with their fourth straight win despite picking up just a run on four hits in the contest.  Willie Horton’s solo homerun in the seventh inning, his fourteenth long ball of the year, was the only run for either [...]

May 27, 1968 at Anaheim Stadium
Angels 7, Tigers 6  (24-16)
It took twelve innings but the Tigers lost for the fifth time in six games in their series opener against the Angels.  The Tigers hitters did get it done though and Eddie Mathews homered twice and drove in three runs while Norm Cash belted a two [...]

May 18, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Senators 8, Tigers 4  (20-12)
Frank Howard took it to the Tigers with two more homeruns as Mickey Lolich was shelled in the Tigers blowout loss.  Lolich gave up five runs on nine hits with five strikeouts and the loss dropped his record to 2-2 on the season.
Bill Freehan went two [...]

May 12, 1968 at D.C. Stadium
Senators 6, Tigers 3  (18-10)
The Tigers four game winning streak came to an end as Mickey Lolich and John Patterson were hammered in the sixth inning to the tune of five runs. Lolich gave up the first two runs and then Patterson came in and the floodgates opened as he [...]

May 7, 1968 at Memorial Stadium
Tigers 2, Orioles 1  (15-9)
In fantastic pitcher’s duel between Mickey Lolich and Tom Phoebus, the Tigers came out on top on a game where neither team scored until the ninth inning.  Tommy Matchick’s pinch hit, two run double in the ninth gave the Tigers two runs to break the scoreless tie and [...]

May 3, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Angels 6, Tigers 5  (13-7)
The Tigers lost their second one run game in as many days as Mickey Lolich was roughed up by the Angels’ hitters.  Lolich fell to 1-1 and he gave up five runs (four earned) on six hits and two walks with six strikeouts in 5 1/3 [...]

May 3, 1968 at Tiger Stadium
Angels 6, Tigers 5  (13-7)
The Tigers lost their second one run game in as many days as Mickey Lolich was roughed up by the Angels’ hitters.  Lolich fell to 1-1 and he gave up five runs (four earned) on six hits and two walks with six strikeouts in 5 1/3 [...]

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 [...]