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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. Detroit lost the ALCS to the Minnesota Twins ...
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.
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.
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 ...
With teammate Howard Johnson already having joined, it marks the first time that two teammates achieve 30–30 seasons in the same year. September 22 – Wade Boggs of the Boston Red Sox reaches the 200-hit mark for the fifth straight season in an 8–5 loss to the Detroit Tigers.
The Tigers entered the final week of the 1987 season 2.5 games behind. [249] After a series against the Baltimore Orioles, the Tigers returned home trailing by a game and swept the Blue Jays. [249] Detroit clinched the division in a 1–0 victory over Toronto in front of 51,000 fans at Tiger Stadium on October 4.
The 26-year-old Baddoo, who has been with the Tigers since 2021, is at spring training as a non-roster player. Tigers OF Akil Baddoo has surgery for broken bone in hand and will miss start of season
In its tenth season under head coach Danny Ford, the team compiled a 10–2 record (6–1 against conference opponents), won the ACC championship, defeated Penn State in the 1988 Florida Citrus Bowl, was ranked No. 12 in the final AP Poll, and outscored opponents by a total of 333 to 176.