Miguel Cabrera

Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera, right, celebrates scoring with Jeimer Candelario against the New York Yankees in the sixth inning of a baseball game in ...

The Tigers (4-7) have lost the first two games of the series to the Yankees (7-5). The finale starts at 1:10 p.m. at Comerica Park. Veteran right-hander Michael Pineda will start for the Tigers in his Detroit debut. DETROIT -- Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera will be in the clean-up spot for the first time this season in the series finale Thursday afternoon against the New York Yankees.

Detroit Tigers veteran Miguel Cabrera enters Thursday's game one hit from the historic 3000 milestone. He will be the 33rd player to reach the mark.

the Yankees: "I don't want to hurt peoples feeling, but it's the Yankees. At some point in my career, when I signed (in 2003), a scout from the Yankees said, 'If you're going to make it to the big leagues, you're going to be a pitcher.' They fired him. On moving down in the batting order: "I said to skip (A.J. Hinch), make the lineup better. They know what (the pitcher is) going to throw. When he's in the lineup, we're going to be dangerous. It's not fair to say, 'Oh, I get 3,000 because of me.' No, I get 3,000 because of my teammates, my coaches, my manager, everyone." "He showed me a dance," Cabrera said. "He takes walks and doesn't swing at bad pitches," Cabrera said. "I said, 'I can't dance.' He told me I have to do something. You are a joy to watch." "I will bunt today, first pitch," Cabrera said, laughing. Playing for the Florida Marlins, he launched a walk-off home run in the 11th inning to beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He is one hit away from becoming the 33rd player in MLB history to reach 3,000 hits.

That put him at 2,999 for his career, with enough baseball left for a shot at 3,000 before the end of the night. Tigers fans, heading into this series, were not ...

They’ll be on their way to the park as I type this, or figuring out how to surreptitiously watch from work, or making their lunch before settling in on the couch. Cabrera, facing Clay Holmes, hit a foul ball on the first pitch that sounded closer to fair on the radio than it looked on TV. He swung and missed at a slider that dipped beautifully below the zone. Cabrera’s batting in the cleanup spot today at 1 p.m. ET in the series finale, and this time I will figure out a way to see him swing with my own eyes. I got back to my apartment just in time, during a commercial break in the middle of the eighth, then stupidly realized that, because the Tigers were playing New York and I live in New York, this game was blacked out for me on MLB TV. So I made the calculation to keep following the game as I was, pacing around my apartment, arguing with myself the impossibility of Cabrera actually getting all four in one night vs. Shortly after 2,999 I was hustling home with the Tigers radio broadcast in my headphones, listening to the Yankees take a 5-3 lead thanks primarily to poor defense. It started to feel magical in the sixth, when Cabrera broke his bat on an absurdly inside Chad Green pitch but still somehow managed to put a ball in play that avoided the Yankees infield.

Cabrera could make history on Thursday vs. the Yankees after getting hit No. 2999 on Wednesday night.

Cabrera, as a result, will be just the seventh member of the 3,000-hit club to have also homered 500 or more times, joining Henry Aaron, Alex Rodriguez, Albert Pujols, Willie Mays, Rafael Palmeiro, and Eddie Murray. Who might be next after Cabrera to get to 3,000 hits? Cabrera spent five years with the Marlins in total, receiving Most Valuable Player Award consideration in each of them. Just last season, Cabrera hit his 500th career home run. He'll have a chance to make history on Thursday afternoon, as Detroit hosts New York at 1:10 p.m. ET. Cabrera is hitting cleanup Thursday. His first hit, as fate would have it, was a walk-off home run.

Cabrera is trying to become the 33rd major leaguer to reach 3000 hits, and just the seventh to reach 3000 hits and 500 home runs.

Cabrera is trying to become the 33rd major leaguer to reach 3,000 hits, and just the seventh to reach 3,000 hits and 500 home runs. Miguel Cabrera will hit fourth Thursday against the New York Yankees, as he tries to reach 3,000 hits. Here's a look at where Miguel Cabrera will bat today in the Tigers order

Miguel Cabrera is closing in on being the first Venezuelan player to log 3000 MLB hits. His impact is not lost on his countrymen playing for the Miami ...

“He’s in the back end of his career,” Rojas said, “but he’s still doing great things. “He’s the best born player from Venezuela and I’m happy for him.” In time, Garcia got to see a portion of Cabrera’s dominant run in person as a teammate. “For me,” Rojas said, “he was always the guy. He’s got good hands; he’s a good fielder, and he’s a good hitter with projected power. He’s a big figure, not just in baseball, but outside the game as well because of all the things that he’s done in Venezuela.” “All of us Venezuelans feel so proud of the way that Miguel Cabrera is reaching more and more goals,” Rojas said. “It was a gap-to-gap approach. Rojas, the Marlins’ de facto captain, knows those are lofty expectations for himself but he doesn’t let that deter him from dreaming big or learning from one of the best Venezuela has to offer. He’s 16 years old, playing in front of all of these people. “Everybody’s paying attention to what he’s doing right now,” said Aguilar, who was born in Maracay like Cabrera. “I’ve been watching him. For Rojas, the connection was simple.

DETROIT -- Miguel Cabrera's chase for his 3000th hit in the series finale with the Yankees ended instead with his 236th career intentional walk.

He walked to the netting between the dugout and home plate, waved hello to fans and posed for a photo with his son, who was seated with the rest of his family nearby. Cabrera gestured for fans to calm down as they continued to boo. It wasn’t what fans had in mind as they flocked to Comerica Park, but the ensuing 3-0 win on Thursday afternoon was just fine for Cabrera.

The Detroit Tigers slugger entered Thursday with 2,999 career hits, one short of one of baseball's most hallowed milestones. Before the game, he had a long and ...

He got a second called strike on a fastball and then came back with his first curve to get Cabrera swinging. He tried to check his swing on a high fastball but was rung up on appeal by first base umpire Adam Hamari. Jeimer Candelario lined out to end the third inning with Cabrera on deck. Cabrera swung and missed at the first pitch, a 91 mph fastball. It was a routine flyout but it looked like more off the bat. Cabrera, while on the on-deck circle, called for his son, Christopher, who was seated with his family a few rows behind home plate.

Barring a major drought, it's likely Cabrera will be celebrating his milestone at home. The Tigers play their next three games at Comerica Park against the ...

Further narrowing down Cabrera's company, he will become the seventh player to get to 3,000 hits while also raking 500 home runs. Thirty-two players have 3,000 hits heading into Friday, with Cabrera poised to become No. 33. Cabrera is also primed to join an even more exclusive subsection of the 3,000 hits club.

Detroit Tigers designated hitter Miguel Cabrera will have to wait to join the 3,000-hit club. Thursday afternoon Cabrera went 0 for 3 with a walk in ...

Cabrera spent five years with the Marlins in total, receiving Most Valuable Player Award consideration in each of them. Cabrera, as a result, will be just the seventh member of the 3,000-hit club to have also homered 500 or more times, joining Henry Aaron, Alex Rodriguez, Albert Pujols, Willie Mays, Rafael Palmeiro, and Eddie Murray. Cabrera will try next to get his 3,000th hit when the Colorado Rockies head to Detroit for a three-game interleague series this weekend. Thursday afternoon Cabrera went 0 for 3 with a walk in Detroit's win over the New York Yankees ( DET 3, NYY 0). The walk is notable because the Yankees intentionally walked Cabrera with runners on second and third and two outs in the eighth inning. Detroit Tigers designated hitter Miguel Cabrera will have to wait to join the 3,000-hit club. "Just left on left, I felt like the matchup, I just liked it better in that situation.

With two outs and runners on second and third in the eighth, Yankees manager Aaron Boone gave Miguel Cabrera a free pass in his last at-bat.

Once the inning ended, Cabrera gestured to the crowd to settle down and pointed to the scoreboard as he walked off the field. With runners on second and third with two outs and a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the eighth inning, Boone issued an intentional walk to Cabrera in his last at-bat to load the bases and create a lefty-on-lefty matchup with Austin Meadows and reliever Lucas Luetge, which triggered a loud chorus of boos and “Yankees suck” chants to break out. With a packed house on hand hoping to witness history at Comerica Park, Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera looked like he was going to get one last crack at recording his 3,000th career hit on Thursday.

Le frappeur de 39 ans tente de devenir le 33e joueur à atteindre les 3000 coups sûrs.

» Cabrera reçoit un but sur balles intentionnel avec 2999 coups sûrsMLB jeudi, 21 avr. »

Miguel Cabrera a été blanchi en trois présences officielles au bâton, jeudi après-midi à Detroit, laissant les partisans des Tigers sur leur appétit face à ...

Il a réussi cinq retraits au bâton, dont deux contre Cabrera. Si la décision des Yankees était logique, les partisans rassemblés au Comerica Park ont maugréé. Miguel Cabrera a été blanchi en trois présences officielles au bâton, jeudi après-midi à Detroit, laissant les partisans des Tigers sur leur appétit face à la possibilité de le voir atteindre les 3000 coups sûrs en carrière.

It was the perfect opportunity for Miggy to get his 3000th hit and play the hero for the Tigers, a narrative dream. Instead, the Yankees walked him.

If this is about the long game—not about Hit No. 3,000 so much as the weight of Hits No. 1 to 2,999—Cabrera’s journey got a tiny bit longer on Thursday. But there was something magical to it. And the second game—the game in which he skipped up to the threshold of history—saw him do this: If 39-year-old Miguel Cabrera gets a hit on his first plate appearance of the game like that, hustling to first on a chopper, he’s getting as many hits as he needs that night. That is not a hit for this version of Miguel Cabrera! That looks nothing like a hit. It will have to do the same tomorrow. Which suddenly made the rest of the night feel like it had to be inevitable: If the fabric of the game already feels a little warped, there’s nothing to lose in believing in magic, is there? Much in the same way a supermassive object warps the space around it—playing around with standards of direction and motion and time—the quest for a milestone screws with the experience of the game. The first game saw him single to center to reach 2,996. The decision backfired for Yankees skipper Aaron Boone— two runs went on to score on a double from Tigers outfielder Austin Meadows—but it revealed some incredible comedic timing on his part. (This means that a walk is now cause for disappointment and a bloop single is equivalent to a home run.) There is no escaping this feeling; it does not matter if the player is at the plate or in the field or down in the dugout. All that matters now is the pursuit of history, and the desires of the crowd will shift accordingly. He entered Thursday with 2,999 career hits—the peak of this distorting effect.

Instead, they saw his 236th career intentional walk. A strategically sound move by manager Aaron Boone and the New York Yankees. A very unpopular decision in ...

Josh Donaldson hit a double on Lange’s first pitch of the eighth, Gleyber Torres singled on the fourth pitch of the inning and Aaron Judge drew a one-out walk to end right-hander’s brief appearance. He worked quickly and his stuff got better as the game went along.” I’m glad Austin came up and got a base hit and we ended up with the win, which is what Miggy was happiest with.” When the inning ended, Cabrera put out his hands as if to tell that crowd he was OK with how things went. “It’s a baseball call all the way, but there’s no doubt that there’s a little more feeling to it, understanding the situation," Boone acknowledged. That brought Cabrera to the plate with two outs and runners on second and third.