A Sense of Doubt blog post #2378 - Miguel Cabrera Blasts Career Home Run 500 in Detroit Tigers Win!!
I interrupt my blog schedule to bring you this out of time post about a Baseball career milestone: Detroit Tigers player Miguel Cabrera's 500th home run!
So...
Love this guy!!
Cabrera was one day from hitting home run No. 100, 200 and 500 on the same date
Cabrera is the fifth player in 75 years to have 500 career home runs and a career batting average over .300
The first Venezuelan-born player in the 500 HR club.
— MLB (@MLB) August 22, 2021
Congrats, @MiguelCabrera! 🇻🇪 pic.twitter.com/W7VaY0BVt3
Miggy being Miggy. pic.twitter.com/N4f5JSC5IO
— Detroit Tigers (@tigers) August 22, 2021
The 28th player in MLB history to hit 500 home runs.
— Detroit Tigers (@tigers) August 22, 2021
Congrats, @MiguelCabrera! pic.twitter.com/ajmOAbVeZg
Miguel Cabrera vs Steven Matz#DetroitRoots
— Would it dong? (@would_it_dong) August 22, 2021
Home Run 💣
Exit velo: 104.1 mph
Launch angle: 26 deg
Proj. distance: 400 ft
This would have been a home run in 28/30 MLB ballparks
DET (1) @ TOR (1)
🔺 6th pic.twitter.com/KOV0QvURa5
Miggy received a standing ovation from the Toronto crowd. 👏 pic.twitter.com/kZ0ASXyO2v
— MLB (@MLB) August 22, 2021
Miguel Cabrera round-number milestone homers:
— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) August 22, 2021
1: 6/20/03, off Al Levine (walk-off)
100: 8/23/06, Chris Schroder
200: 8/23/09, Michael Wuertz
300: 7/22/12, Philip Humber
400: 5/16/15, Tyler Lyons
500: today, Steven Matz
1 day short of 500 on same month/day as 100 and 200!
.@MiguelCabrera becomes the 28th player in history to join the 500 home run club! 🔥 The Venezuelan hit a walk-off homer in his big league debut in 2003. In 2012, during his MVP season, he became the first Triple Crown winner in 45 years🏆 Congrats on 500, Miggy! 👏 @tigers pic.twitter.com/Bjc4shXx6C
— MLBPA (@MLBPA) August 22, 2021
BREAKING
— Sportsnet Stats (@SNstats) August 22, 2021
Miguel Cabrera is the 28th player in MLB history to hit 500 Home Runs
He's also the 5th player in the past 75 seasons with 500 Home Runs & a career .300 AVG pic.twitter.com/TIt99qbKKi
500-HR CLUB, AVG AS HIGH AS MIGGY
— Jayson Stark (@jaysonst) August 22, 2021
Ted Williams .344
Babe Ruth .342
Jimmie Foxx .325
Manny Ramirez .312
Miguel Cabrera .311
Miguel Cabrera is now only 45 hits shy of 3,000 https://t.co/92eelefaPi
— Cody Stavenhagen (@CodyStavenhagen) August 22, 2021
Welcome to the 500 Club, Miggy! pic.twitter.com/oFT8nGre16
— Detroit Tigers (@tigers) August 22, 2021
From JV to Miggy.
— Bally Sports Detroit (@BallySportsDET) August 22, 2021
The man of the hour gets a big shout out from his former Tigers teammate, @JustinVerlander. #Miggy500 | #DetroitRoots pic.twitter.com/79cAVsGytc
I grew up watching him. I grew up learning from him. I grew up learning to have fun playing the game because of him. It’s been an honor to watch his career and an honor to share a locker and a dugout with him on a few occasions. Congrats Miguel Cabrera on 500 Home Runs!! pic.twitter.com/ZXLe81C6CO
— Ben Verlander (@BenVerlander) August 22, 2021
Miguel Cabrera is now the 28th player in major-league history to hit 500 career homers.
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) August 22, 2021
He’s just the 6th player born outside the United States to do so:
Albert Pujols (677)
Sammy Sosa (609)
Rafael Palmeiro (569)
Manny Ramirez (555)
David Ortiz (541)
Miguel Cabrera (500) pic.twitter.com/65u02lr3Nt
Miggy is in special company. pic.twitter.com/wOZdhpVfJH
— Detroit Tigers (@tigers) August 22, 2021
Congrats, Miggy 🏆 5⃣0⃣0⃣
— MLB Network Radio on SiriusXM (@MLBNetworkRadio) August 22, 2021
See you in Cooperstown. pic.twitter.com/6B0WAxCNsQ
Not every great Miguel Cabrera home run was a milestone. Here are some of our faves
Here are a few of our favorites as we wait for No. 500 to arrive, perhaps in Toronto or St. Louis:
May 28, 2010: Athletics 5, Tigers 4
Nos. 220, 221, 222: After missing two games for the birth of his daughter, Cabrera launched the first pitch he saw from right-hander Ben Sheets in the first inning into right-center. In the fourth, Cabrera took Sheets’ second pitch down the left-field line for a tie game. Even Oakland manager Bob Geren was impressed: “The pitch was inside and might not even have been a strike," Geren told the Freep's John Lowe. "He got the bat head out." Finally, in the bottom of the ninth, Cabrera sent righty reliever Andrew Bailey’s third pitch over the bullpens in left to make it a one-run game, though that was it for the Tigers.
[ How Miguel Cabrera is dealing with pressure in quest to 500 home runs ]
Aug. 5, 2012: Tigers 10, Cleveland 8
No. 304: After Cleveland scored three runs in the 10th inning on a Sunday afternoon at Comerica Park, and the Tigers had a three-run rally to tie it in the bottom of the 10th, Cabrera delivered his lone extra-inning walk-off homer. The blast came on the fifth pitch he saw from Cleveland reliever Chris Perez and left the field as a moonshot to left-center with Omar Infante (who had singled) on first. "It was a little scary," Cabrera said afterward, as reported by the Freep's Carlos Monarrez. "It was high. I was not sure if I hit it out, but I'm glad it go out."
May 19, 2013: Rangers 11, Tigers 8
Nos. 330, 331, 332: Cabrera singled in the first inning, then homered in each of his next three at-bats: Two off of future teammate Derek Holland, in the third and fifth innings, followed by a solo shot in the eighth off reliever Tanner Scheppers. The final blast moved Cabrera past a Tigers great on the all-time home run list: Hank Greenberg (331). But he was focused on the result, rather than the leaderboard: “I would feel better if we won,” Cabrera said to Lowe.
[ Ex-Tigers shortstop Jose Iglesias opens up about Miguel Cabrera, his future ]
Still, Cabrera already was drawing comparisons in his sixth season as a Tiger to greats like Greenberg, albeit ones he rejected: “There a lot of great players who have played this game. I respect that they did a lot for baseball. They got 3,000 hits and more than 500 home runs. They already did it. My career is short right now. There is a long way to go to say that.”
Aug. 9-11, 2013: Cabrera 2, Rivera 0
Nos. 355, 356, 357: To be the best, you’ve got to beat the best — woo! — and that’s what Cabrera did in the front and back ends of a three-game series against the Yankees. In Friday night’s opener, Cabrera came to the plate with two outs in the ninth, Austin Jackson on second, the Tigers down 3-1 and Hall of Fame closer Mariano Rivera on the mound. On the seventh pitch of the at-bat, Cabrera launched a bomb to tie things up. (The Tigers lost in the 11th; if only Cabrera could pitch.)
The next day, Cabrera succeeded as well against Phil Hughes (decidedly not the best), taking a Hughes fastball “so far inside it might have missed the catcher's mitt,” wrote the Freep’s Shawn Windsor, hard to left field to open a 9-3 rout of the Yankees. "I've never seen anything like that," said Anibal Sanchez, the Tigers' starter that day.
For an encore, Cabrera came up against Rivera in the ninth on Sunday afternoon, trailing again by two. This time, there were no runners on, but Cabrera still launched the fifth pitch he saw out of the park, deep to right field. Three games, three homers, three fields. Even more impressive: Rivera faced 827 batters while ahead the ninth inning, over 3,022 plate appearances, and of those, 38 homered. Only one homered twice: Cabrera.
May 13, 2014: Tigers 4, Orioles 1
No. 371: Yes, there was a time when the Tigers and Orioles — who have since combined to pick No. 1 overall in 2018, '19 and '20 — were both good, as they were in this matchup of AL Central and East leaders in Baltimore. This time, Cabrera came to bat in the ninth inning with two on, two outs and right-hander Tommy Hunter on the mound trying to protect a 1-0 lead. On a 1-0 count, Cabrera launched Hunter’s 95.2 mph four-seam fastball into the Orioles’ bullpen in left-center for a 3-1 lead. (Victor Martinez followed with a solo shot to right onto Eutaw Street for the final score.)
Cabrera had a simple view of the pivotal at-bat after the game, telling the Freep’s George Sipple, “We win or we're going to lose. You don't gotta think too much or be afraid to fail. You gotta go out there and try and see what happens." Once again, Cabrera was focused on the big picture, too: “It means a lot. We're playing away. Any win we can get on the road is very important. We gotta keep going.” Cabrera, who had nine go-ahead home runs in 2014, but only one after the fourth inning, had no idea: The Tigers would go on to win the Central by a single game over the Royals (though they were swept by the O’s in October's ALDS rematch).
Contact Ryan Ford at rford@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @theford. Read more on the Detroit Tigers and sign up for our Tigers newsletter.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Miguel Cabrera's non-milestone HRs: the other Detroit Tigers faves
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