Tommy Bridges
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Born: December 28, 1906 Gordonsville, Tennessee |
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Died: April 19, 1968 (aged 61) Nashville, Tennessee |
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| MLB debut | |||
| August 13, 1930, for the Detroit Tigers | |||
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| July 20, 1946, for the Detroit Tigers | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 194–138 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.57 | ||
| Strikeouts | 1,674 | ||
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Thomas Jefferson Davis Bridges (December 28, 1906 – April 19, 1968) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career with the Detroit Tigers from 1930 to 1946. During the 1930s, he used an outstanding curveball to become one of the mainstays of the team's pitching staff, winning 20 games in three consecutive seasons and helping the team to its first World Series championship with two victories in the 1935 Series. He retired with 1,674 career strikeouts, then the eighth highest total in American League history, and held the Tigers franchise record for career strikeouts from 1941 to 1951.
Born in Gordonsville, Tennessee, Bridges attended the University of Tennessee, and after having a 20-strikeout game for the minor league Wheeling Stogies in 1929, he joined the Tigers in 1930, inducing Babe Ruth to ground out on his first major league pitch.
On August 5, 1932, he came within one out of throwing a perfect game. With two outs in the ninth inning, and the Washington Senators trailing 13–0, the Senators pitcher was due to bat. Washington manager Walter Johnson sent pinch hitter Dave Harris to bat, who led the AL that season with 14 pinch hits. Harris hit a single to break up the perfect game.
Bridges had another one-hitter against the Senators, on May 24, 1933. On September 24, 1933, Bridges reached the ninth inning with a no-hitter for the fourth time in two years. This time, he gave up a pair of hits but beat the St Louis Browns 7–0. For the 1933 season, Bridges had a 3.08 earned run average (ERA) (140 Adjusted ERA+), second-best in the American League.
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