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The 1987 Detroit Tigers season was the team's 87th season and the 76th season at Tiger Stadium. The Tigers made a late-season comeback to win the American League East on the season's final day. The Tigers finished with a Major League-best record of 98–64, two games ahead of the Toronto Blue Jays .
October 4 – The Detroit Tigers defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 1–0 to clinch the American League East division title. The victory caps off a thrilling pennant race in which the Tigers overcame a 3.5 game deficit to the Blue Jays in the last two weeks of the season, including sweeping the Blue Jays at Tiger Stadium in the final weekend, and ...
When the series moved to Detroit for Game 3, the Tigers blew a 5–0 lead in the top of seventh, putting them in danger of falling behind 3–0 in the series, but Detroit’s Pat Sheridan hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the eighth to give the Tigers a 7–6 victory. However, the Twins would narrowly prevail in Game 4, and in Game 5, the ...
The Detroit Tigers finished the 1987 regular season with the best record in all of baseball, at 98–64 (.605). They won the American League East by two games in thrilling fashion over the Toronto Blue Jays, overcoming a 3½-game deficit with a week to go, and clinching the division—and their second postseason appearance in four years—on the last day of the season with a 1–0 win over ...
The 1987 Texas Southern Tigers football team represented Texas Southern University as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Lionel Taylor , the Tigers compiled an overall record of 5–6, with a mark of 3–4 in conference play, and finished tied ...
Detroit Tigers outfielder Riley Greene, who underwent Tommy John surgery on his right elbow nearly four months ago, is getting closer to full health.
Gibson made his major league debut in 1979 and played as the regular right fielder for the Tigers from 1983 to 1987. He helped the Tigers win the 1984 World Series . He became a free agent after the 1985 season but received no significant offers because of what was later determined to be collusion among the owners of MLB teams.
He also ranked among the league's leading center fielders with a .992 fielding percentage (second), 348 putouts (third), and a 2.70 range factor (fourth), and helped the 1987 Tigers win the AL East with a record of 98-64. [2] [28] In 1988, the Tigers moved Lemon moved to right field to make room for speedy new acquisition Gary Pettis. He played ...