1B Miguel Cabrera was removed from the game in the eighth inning due to tightness in his lower back. Cabrera said he didn't think it was anything serious. "We were just trying to be careful. Hopefully with the day off (Monday), it will be fine," he said. In the series with Cleveland, Cabrera hit .455 (5-for-11), with a home run, a double, and five RBIs. Cabrera's next home run will be the 449th of his career, tying him with Jeff Bagwell and Vladimir Guerrero for 38th on the all-time list.

1B Miguel Cabrera was 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Since the 2016 All-Star break, Cabrera is hitting .403 on the road, the highest road batting average in the majors in that span. In the 24-year-history of Progressive Field Cabrera leads all opposing players in RBI (80) and runs scored (64). He's second in hits (117), extra base hits (43) and batting average (.349, minimum 200 plate appearances).

1B Miguel Cabrera was 2-for-3, including a home run and three RBI. Cabrera's average in 626 career at bats vs. Cleveland is .351, with 43 home runs and 145 RBI. Cabrera also was involved in an incident in the first inning when RHP Trevor Bauer threw a high fastball that Cabrera took offense to. Cabrera yelled into the Indians dugout. "I thought it was up, but not that far in," said Indians manager Terry Francona. "He was yelling at me. I'm not sure what he wanted me to do." Tigers Manager Brad Ausmus referenced Bauer's last start vs. the Tigers, on Sept. 18 of last year, when he hit three Tigers in five innings, including 2B Ian Kinsler, who was hit in the head and suffered a concussion. "I don't think Bauer was trying to (hit Cabrera), but at some point you get sick of it," Ausmus said.

1B Miguel Cabrera hit his first homer of the season, a solo shot on the first pitch he saw Thursday. The long ball was Cabrera's seventh against Minnesota starter Phil Hughes, the most homers he has against any active pitcher. Cabrera, who finished the day 1-for-2 with a walk, had just three singles this season prior to the homer.

1B Miguel Cabrera had a single and drew a walk Tuesday but is still looking for his first extra-base hit. Cabrera has three singles in 24 at-bats and has yet to score or drive in a run. The Tigers have managed to hit a home run in each of their first seven games for the third time in franchise history even though Cabrera, cleanup hitter Victor Martinez and No. 5 hitter Justin Upton don't have any.

1B Miguel Cabrera was waved to first base Friday with a 2-0 count. Baseball changed its intentional walk rule, now allowing managers to simply tell the home plate umpire he wants to put the batter on first without having to make the previously required four wide throws to the plate. Early in his career, Cabrera had a single for the Florida Marlins when the opposition was trying to walk him.

1B Miguel Cabrera remains two RBI away from tying Willie McCovey for 44th in big league history. Cabrera, who went 0-for-3 with two walks and a strikeout in Tuesday's rescheduled season-opener, has 1,553 RBIs in his 15-year career.

Staying healthy to remain a contender was the Detroit Tigers' winter mantra heading into the 2017 season.Then midway through spring training, right fielder J.D. Martinez suffered a sprain to the Lisfranc ligament in his right ankle that will sideline him 3-to-4 weeks dating from March 24. And it could be longer for him to work his way back into baseball shape.So much for an injury-free season."No question our lineup is better with J.D. Martinez's bat in it," manager Brad Ausmus said. "But we will deal with it. When you think about it, it's three to four weeks from (March 24) and 10 days of that are while we're still in spring training."So if it goes four weeks, that's only 2 1/2, three weeks of missed time in season."Couple that with uncertainty in center field and Detroit will open the season April 3 in Chicago against the White Sox having big question marks in two of the three outfield positions.The Martinez injury could prompt the club to hand the center field job to rookie JaCoby Jones,... [More]

1B Miguel Cabrera got off to a slow start power-wise this season but at the end of the year put up numbers that were in line with a typical Cabrera season -- .316 batting average, 38 home runs, 108 RBIs. He hit .349 with 10 home runs and 27 RBI from Sept. 2 on. He played through assorted nicks and bruises and will have his right ankle, surgically repaired two years ago, checked in the coming weeks to see if there is anything to the soreness he felt on occasion the last two months of the season.

1B Miguel Cabrera had two of the team's hits on the final day. Cabrera finished the season batting .316 with 38 homers and 108 RBI. He finished the season with 308 homers with the Tigers, third-most on the all-time franchise list.

PHILADELPHIA -- Jay Bruce is doing everything in his power to help the New York Mets reach the postseason.Bruce homered for the third straight game and knocked in three runs to help the Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-1.Bruce's home run in the top of the seventh gave the Mets a 3-1 lead and some much needed insurance. An inning later, his RBI single capped off a two-run eighth inning that put the visitors a comfortable distance away from their rivals.The Mets clinched at least a wild-card tiebreaker and know their season cannot end Sunday, the league's final regular season date.Giants 9, Dodgers 3SAN FRANCISCO -- Brandon Belt highlighted a seven-run sixth inning with a three-run homer, helping San Francisco move closer to an NL wild-card berth.Madison Bumgarner limited Los Angeles to three runs in 7 1/3 innings and contributed a two-run double to the game-breaking uprising, allowing the Giants to remain one game behind the New York Mets and one ahead of St. Louis in the wild-card... [More]

1B Miguel Cabrera was 3-for-5 with two homers, three runs scored and three RBIs Friday. Cabrera now has 38 homers, two shy of his third 40-homer season. Cabrera has 39 multi-homer games, six of them this season. He has hit 308 homers as a Tiger, surpassing Hank Greenberg for third place in team history.

1B Miguel Cabrera made a couple of nice defensive plays Monday night and also knocked in his 96th and 97th runs of the season. Cabrera had RBI singles in the fifth and seventh innings. He is hitting .339 over his past 60 games.

DH Miguel Cabrera showed off his base-running skills again Friday night. Cabrera walked in the first inning with one out and aggressively tried to move up on a pitch in the dirt by LHP Danny Duffy. C Drew Butera threw wildly to second and 2B Ian Kinsler, who had walked leading off, was able to score with Cabrera ending up on third. He scored from there on an RBI double by LF Justin Upton. Cabrera is slow but his skill on the bases maximizes what speed he has.

1B Miguel Cabrera went 1-for-4 in the second game of Thursday's doubleheader and finished the year batting .321 (25-for-78) in 19 games against Minnesota. Cabrera has hit well against the Twins throughout his career and owns a .318 average in 164 games lifetime versus Minnesota.

1B Miguel Cabrera continued to add to his Hall of Fame resume with a two-run homer Tuesday in a win at Minnesota. Cabrera's 34th homer of the season tied him with Dave Kingman for 41st in major league history. He also passed Joe DiMaggio for 48th all-time with 1,538 RBI. He has hit .350 with 12 career home runs in 57 games at Target Field.

1B Miguel Cabrera's single in the third inning was the 2,500th hit of his career. Cabrera is the 100th player in major league history to reach 2,500 hits. According to Elias, Cabrera, at age 33, is the youngest player to reach 2,500 hits since Hank Aaron did it at the same age in 1967.

1B Miguel Cabrera had two hits on Saturday, his 61st multi-hit game against Cleveland in his career. That's the most by any active player. Cabrera was the lone bright spot for the Tigers offensively in their 1-0 loss. He had two of their four hits. "We have to find a way to score, obviously," Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said. "We only got one guy past second base in the whole game. I felt like we could have been a little better, but it wasn't from a lack of effort."

1B Miguel Cabrera entered Friday's game with a career batting average of .500 (21-42) against Indians RHP Corey Kluber. That includes five home runs, 10 RBI, a .523 on base percentage and .905 RBI. All of those leads all active players with at least 20 at bats against Kluber. However, Kluber had Cabrera's number Friday night. Cabrera was 0-for-3 with a walk.

1B Miguel Cabrera hit his 33rd home run of the season to break a 6-6 tie and spark Detroit to its 9-6 win Wednesday night. "I hit it good," said Cabrera, who also had an RBI single and now has 91 RBIs. "You play for this, the chance to make the playoffs." He also had a few words about the negative comments he reads and hears from social media. "It doesn't matter what people say," he said. "We hear a lot of bad things. You've got to stay positive."