Miggy puts on a show with first 4-hit game since 2021
CHICAGO — The sound was so international that it appeared prefer it will need to have been piped in at first. Miguel Cabrera getting cheers on the South Side? No method.
This is the place Cabrera was roundly booed in 2012 for stopping the sport when he seen the grounds crew had drawn the batter’s field a number of inches too far ahead, a mistake he realized when he planted his again foot for his first plate look. His strikeouts have prompted loud ovations.
Yet when Cabrera stepped to the plate Friday, he was greeted with a heat ovation from a big group of followers alongside the first-base stands. It was a bunch of Venezuelans, he defined later.
Once Cabrera stepped to the plate for the primary time within the Tigers’ 10-0 win on Saturday, nevertheless, the ovation had unfold round Guaranteed Rate Field, together with many followers in White Sox apparel. And Cabrera, in flip, placed on a present, producing his first four-hit recreation since 2021.
Cabrera entered the sport tied with George Brett with 3,154 hits, Seventeenth-most in Major League historical past in keeping with totals saved by Elias Sports Bureau. By night’s finish, Cabrera was inside eight hits of Adrián Beltré for sixteenth all-time.
Cabrera started his effort with certainly one of Detroit’s 5 consecutive two-out hits in opposition to White Sox starter Mike Clevinger. After Spencer Torkelson’s single prolonged the inning, Cabrera slashed an opposite-field line drive to the right-field nook for an RBI double.
After flying out to middle within the second inning, Cabrera produced one other two-out RBI hit within the fourth, sending a single by means of the center off Clevinger to attain Torkelson once more.
Both hits have been on the primary pitch, as was Cabrera’s sixth-inning RBI single, a line drive to right-center off Luis Patiño. By distinction, Cabrera labored a 1-2 rely in opposition to Patiño earlier than sending a floor ball up the center once more. Shortstop Zach Remillard charged it however couldn’t make the play as Cabrera rumbled into first base. He was then lifted for a pinch-runner.
Cabrera’s forty ninth profession four-hit recreation — tied with Hank Aaron for Twenty first-most in MLB historical past — was his first since Sept. 8, 2021, when he went 4-for-4 in opposition to the Pirates at PNC Park.
