Detroit — Tigers fans, and souvenir ball-hawkers, they don’t miss a trick.
With Miguel Cabrera shooting for career home run No. 500 Friday night, the stands in left field and right field were jam-packed. The rest of Comerica Park, less than (announced crowd of 22,107).
They didn’t get their golden-ticket souvenir on this night, but they sure did fill the yard with energy. Big ovations every time Cabrera came to the plate, even after he punched out in the first.
The place nearly exploded in the fourth when he hit a towering fly ball to center, 70 feet short of the wall.