DETROIT: The Indians know they’re living in the world that, for 19 games a season, they’re going to have to try to limit Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera.
Friday night, they challenged him again and almost got the best of him. Indians starting pitcher Danny Salazar walked Cabrera in the first and later got out of the inning, and he struck him out with a 97-mph fastball in his next at-bat.
In his third at-bat, Cabrera reminded everyone that very rarely does a pitcher get the best of him for an entire game. Cabrera clobbered the first pitch he saw and drove it off of the camera bay beyond the 420-foot fence in center field for a three-run home run.