The Tigers were able to celebrate Cabrera’s milestone day with a 5-3 win in the rubber match of the three-game set against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Toronto — As Miguel Cabrera was being mobbed by his teammates on his way back into the dugout after he clubbed historical home run No.500 in the sixth inning Sunday, he yelled, “Let’s go.” The home run made it a 1-1 game and his message was clear — “We still got work to do.” They pushed it to extra innings, improbably, and then in the top of the 11th, rookie Daz Cameron and Willi Castro delivered back-to-back, two-out doubles and the Tigers were able to celebrate Cabrera’s milestone day with a 5-3 win in the rubber match of the three-game set against the Toronto Blue Jays. Joe Jimenez, the sixth Tigers’ reliever, went through the top of the Jays’ batting order — Bo Bichette, Marcus Semien and Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. — to lock it down. BOX SCORE: Tigers 5, Blue Jays 3 (11 innings) Cameron’s rifle shot into the corner in left against left-hander Kirby Snead came with two strikes. The Tigers were also down to their last strike when they pushed the game into extra innings in the top of the ninth. The Tigers were down 2-1 after Lourdes Gurriel, Jr., singled off Michael Fulmer with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, scoring Corey Dickerson. And side-arming reliever Adam Cimber got two quick outs and looked poised to quickly dispatch Willi Castro and end the game. He had him 0-2 after getting Castro to swing and miss at a pitch that hit him in the hip. But Castro drove the next one into the gap in left-center, the ball bouncing over the wall for a ground-rule double to extend the inning.
