Tigers’ Cabrera gets 3,000th hit; 33rd player to reach mark | Southern Idaho Sports

The milestone hit got here off Antonio Senzatela, a fellow Venezuelan, within the first sport of a day-night doubleheader.

A two-time AL MVP, a Triple Crown winner and an 11-time All-Star with 4 batting titles, Miggy’s place among the many Major League Baseball greats already was assured lengthy earlier than this afternoon in Detroit.

As a 20-year-old rookie, Cabrera helped the Florida Marlins win the 2003 World Series championship. All these years later, stamping his identify onto the three,000-hit record had a pleasant ring, too.

And it will definitely look good on a plaque in Cooperstown sometime.

Cabrera turned simply the seventh participant with 500 residence runs and three,000 hits. He joined an unique membership with Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Eddie Murray, Rafael Palmeiro, Albert Pujols and Alex Rodriguez.

Last August in Toronto, Cabrera linked for his five hundredth homer. He’s now at 502 in his twentieth season.

Cabrera is the seventh Latino participant to make the three,000 chart — the hit tied him on the general record with the late Roberto Clemente.

Pujols was the earlier participant to succeed in 3,000 hits, doing it in 2018. He was at 3,308 going into Saturday and, at 42 with St. Louis, has mentioned that is his ultimate season.

The subsequent hitter to succeed in 3,000? Hard to say.

Robinson Canó trailed Cabrera on the energetic record with 2,630 going into Saturday and is 39 years outdated. Yadier Molina, additionally 39, adopted at 2,116.

Among youthful gamers, Jose Altuve (32) has 1,783 and Freddie Freeman (32) had 1,722. Mike Trout (30) was at 1,428.

Cabrera received three hits Wednesday to get to 2,999, then struck out in his ultimate at-bat of the evening. He went 0 for 3 Thursday and was deliberately walked his ultimate time up towards the Yankees, drawing loud boos and chants from Detroit followers.

The milestone remained on deck when Friday evening’s sport towards Colorado was rained out.

Cabrera was the third participant to get his 3,000th hit whereas with Detroit, becoming a member of Ty Cobb and Al Kaline.

While age has diminished his energy to clear any fence and smash opposite-field pictures to right-center, Cabrera has loved a monster profession on the plate.

Cabrera turned the primary main leaguer in 45 years to win the Triple Crown by main the league in batting common, residence runs and RBIs in 2012. That 12 months, he received his first of two straight MVP awards and helped Detroit attain the World Series, throughout a stretch that included 4 straight division championships.

“He is one of the great right-handed hitters ever,” Yankees supervisor and former Marlins teammate Aaron Boone mentioned this week.

“And 3,000 hits, 500 homers, that’s obviously rarefied air. He’s done it, you know, in bigger ballparks his entire career, between Florida and here also. You know, he’s an all-timer. He’s in that, probably inner circle, of even the Hall of Fame. It’s been a special career,” Boone mentioned.

Cabrera boosted his whole most frequently towards James Shields, getting 27 hits towards the previous Tampa Bay, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City and San Diego pitcher.

Detroit acquired Cabrera in a commerce with the Marlins in 2007, with Dontrelle Willis additionally going to the Tigers in a deal for Andrew Miller and Cameron Maybin. Cabrera had 842 hits on the time.

The swap got here a 12 months after the Tigers misplaced the World Series to St. Louis, within the hope that Cabrera would assist them win the championship for the primary time since 1984.

The Tigers, although, by no means received all of it with their famous person. Detroit was swept by San Francisco within the 2012 World Series and spent a decade in a rebuilding mode that bottomed out with 310 losses between 2017-19.

After Cabrera was an All-Star for the eleventh time in 2016, his manufacturing declined and Detroit’s charge of success did as effectively.

The Tigers made daring strikes within the offseason in a quest to be related with Cabrera serving as a draw to deliver followers to the ballpark and to hit about one ball per sport into the outfield grass with savvy swings after crushing baseballs with unimaginable pressure earlier in his profession.

A prime prospect within the minors, Cabrera made his large league debut in June 2003. He introduced his presence to the entire baseball world that October.

Brushed again by a few heaters from Yankee ace Roger Clemens, Cabrera got here again to launch a house run off the Rocket in serving to the Marlins win the World Series.

Cabrera is nearly twice as outdated now and remains to be a child at coronary heart, lately taking the grounds crew’s three-wheel bicycle for a journey throughout batting follow.

And, one of many sport’s all-time greats can nonetheless get a base hit towards a few of the world’s finest pitchers.