Toronto — Miguel Cabrera became the 28th player in Major League Baseball history to hit 500 home runs when he launched the historic blast to right field in the sixth inning Sunday at Rogers Centre.
He became the first player to accomplish the feat since David Ortiz in 2015 and his friend and mentor Albert Pujols in 2014, and he's the first in the 121-year history of the Detroit baseball franchise to do it wearing a Tigers uniform.
Gary Sheffield and Eddie Mathews, both of whom spent just two seasons in Detroit, are the others in the 500-homer club with Tigers ties.