Editing Chet Lemon (section)

====1984 season====
In 1984, the Tigers opened with a 35–5 record, won the [[American League East]] by 15 games, and defeated the [[San Diego Padres]] in the [[1984 World Series]]. Lemon played a key role on the 1984 championship team. Defensively, he started 135 games in center field and compiled a career-high .995 fielding percentage with only two errors in 438 chances.<ref name=BR/> Offensively, his batting average jumped more than 30 points to .287, and his 60 extra-base hits tied [[Kirk Gibson]] for the most on the team. His 20 home runs and 76 RBIs ranked third on the 1984 Tigers team.<ref name=t84>{{cite web|title=1984 Detroit Tigers Statistics|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=February 19, 2018|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/DET/1984.shtml}}</ref> Lemon was also the starting center fielder for the American League at the [[1984 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1984 All-Star game]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NLS/NLS198407100.shtml|title=1984 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|publisher=Baseball-Reference.com|date=July 10, 1984}}</ref>

Reaching the post-season for the first time in his career, Lemon went hitless in thirteen [[at-bat]]s in the Tigers' three-game sweep of the [[Kansas City Royals]] in the [[1984 American League Championship Series]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1984_ALCS.shtml|title=1984 American League Championship Series|date=October 2–5, 1984|publisher=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> He improved in the World Series, batting .294 with a [[run scored]] and a run batted in.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1984_WS.shtml|title=1984 World Series|date=October 9–14, 1984|publisher=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> He also had "a [[Willie Mays]]–style back-to-the-plate catch" on a [[Terry Kennedy (baseball)|Terry Kennedy]] drive to preserve the Tigers' lead in the seventh inning of Game 3.<ref>{{cite news|title=Lemon is Tigers' radar-equipped cheetah|newspaper=Asbury Park Press (reprinted from Los Angeles Times)|date=October 13, 1984|page=B3|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17584262/lemon_is_tigers_radarguided_cheetah/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Big catch stifles Padres|newspaper=Detroit Free Press|date=October 13, 1984|page=3D|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17584221/big_catch_stifles_padres/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>