Detroit — He admitted it afterward. The home run drought had started to get in his head a little bit.
“I mean, yeah,” Miguel Cabrera said. “You see it. I’ve been struggling this year. But I always stay positive. I always try to do my job.”
The home run drought is over. After 103 plate appearances without one, Cabrera blasted a two-run, walk-off home run off reliever Tommy Hunter in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Tigers a 5-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays Thursday night.
“It’s big,” he said.