Game 9: April 18, 1984
Tiger 4 – Royals 3, 10 innings
W: Willie Hernandez (1-0) L: Joe Beckwith (0-1) | Boxscore
Highlights
- The Tigers took a 3-0 lead into the top of the eighth. With two out, Jorge Orta hit a three-run homer of Jack Morris to tie it.
- Morris and Royals starter Bud Black both scattered nine hits, allowed three runs and struck out three. Morris did it in nine innings, Black in seven.
- Willie Hernandez set K.C. down in order in the top of the 10th.
- Alan Trammell led off the 10th with a single, then Dave Bergman bunted him to second. Lance Parrish grounded out, moving Tram to third.
- Larry Herndon reached on an error by second baseman Frank White and Tram came home with the winning run.
- Parrish homered, part of a three for five night. Chet Lemon hit two doubles.
- Record: 9-0
Miscellany
- Umpires: HP – Nick Bremigan, 1B – Vic Voltaggio, 2B – Joe Brinkman, 3B – Larry McCoy
- Time of Game: 3:02
- Attendance: 12,310
6 Things to Know about Rico Brogna – #13
A left-handed hitting first baseman, Rico Brogna was, like Travis Fryman and Steve Searcy and Rich Rowland, a highly anticipated Tigers prospect in the early 1990s.
Here are a few things to know about him:
- He was the Tigers’ first-round pick in the 1988 draft.
- Brogna made his Tigers debut against the Blue Jays, doubling in his first at bat, off Dave Stieb.
- He finished the night one for four. On Aug. 11, he hit his first major-league homer, off Melido Perez, at Tiger Stadium.
- He appeared in just nine games before being sent back to Toledo, where he’d spend the rest of the ’92 season and all of 1993.
- On March 31, 1994, the Tigers dealt him to the Mets for catcher Alan Zinter.
- Brogna went on to have a nice career with the Mets and even more so with the Phillies.
Birthday
Jake Rogers, Miguel Cabrera, Rico Brogna, Doug Flynn and the late Brian Dubois and Wahoo Sam Crawford
Today’s Grid
⚾️ Immaculate Grid 382 9/9 — Rarity: 15
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