Gary Sheffield, circa 2007. (Photo by Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
Miguel Cabrera is the newest member of baseball’s vaunted ‘500 Home Run Club’. Two of the other men who clubbed that many homers also spent part of their careers in a Detroit Tigers uniform: Eddie Mathews and Gary Sheffield.
Sunday, August 22 will go down as one of the most exciting days of the Detroit Tigers’ 2021 season. In the top of the sixth inning against the Toronto Blue Jays, Miguel Cabrera sent a pitch from lefty Steven Matz sailing over the wall in right-center to become the 28th major leaguer to hit 500 home runs.