Number 306 was a thing of beauty, a classic, historic Miguel Cabrera home run, an opposite field missile that cut through the rain and landed over the rightfield fence in Comerica Park on Wednesday night.
It was beyond clutch, or as clutch as you can get in the fifth inning of a rain-soaked game. It gave the Detroit Tigers a 6-3 lead in what would turn into a rain-shortened victory over the Cleveland Indians and it kept the Tigers alive in the hunt for a wild-card spot.
“We’re in the situation, we gotta win games,” Cabrera said, after the Tigers ended the night in the same place where they had started it, one game behind the Baltimore Orioles for the second wild-card spot.