Miguel Cabrera had fairly the weekend at Fenway Park.
Even with the Tigers shedding the sequence to the Pink Sox, Cabrera was showered with presents from Boston and respect from the followers amid his retirement tour.
On Saturday, members of the Pink Sox bestowed the Detroit slugger with a No. 24 placard from the Inexperienced Monster together with making a charitable donation to Cabrera’s basis. And on Sunday, the Fenway Devoted greeted Cabrera with a standing ovation earlier than his final at-bat in Boston.
Cabrera stepped as much as the plate with the Pink Sox main the Tigers 6-3 with one on and no outs. Boston followers rose to their ft to honor the 12-time All-Star as he stepped as much as the plate to face Boston nearer Kenley Jansen.
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The 40-year-old took a second to acknowledge the group earlier than flying out to heart for the primary out of the inning.
Pink Sox supervisor Alex Cora expressed his delight within the followers for the “cool second” they confirmed Cabrera within the prime of the ninth inning and the 2003 World Collection champion expressed his personal gratitude, in line with freelance sports activities author Ken Powtak.
“Superior. That’ll be in my reminiscence my complete life,” Cabrera informed Powtak. “I actually recognize the followers in Boston doing that. It was fairly superior. I didn’t anticipate that. They love baseball right here. They love sports activities right here in Boston.”
Cabrera didn’t precisely gentle up the scoreboard within the three-game sequence towards the Pink Sox, recording simply two hits and one RBI with 4 strikeouts. However the future Corridor of Famer has collected 3,145 hits, 508 residence runs and 1,864 RBIs in 2,767 video games with Detroit and the Marlins.
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