With the three hits he fired on Monday, during the game that the Tigers beat the Royals 10-3 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Miguel Cabrera reached 829 multi-hit games in his 19-season career .
With this, she reached 33rd place on the historical list of hitters with the most encounters with a minimum of two hits, nothing more and nothing less than the greatest icon of the Major Leagues, Babe Ruth, who in 22 seasons between 1914 and 1935, with the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Boston Braves he managed to collect 829 games in which he connected several rockets, distributed at the rate of six games of five hits 23 of four, 197 of three and 603 games of two.
Cabrera reached 187 three-hit games on Monday in a career in which he has two five-hit games, 45 of four firecrackers and 595 challenges in which he has managed to double.
Ty Cobb owns the record for the most at least two-hit games in MLB history, with 1,293. They follow Pete Rose (1,225), Tris Speaker (1,059), Stan Musial (1,059), Hank Aaron (1,046), Derek Jeter (1,014), Paul Molitor (967), Eddie Collins (954), Tony Gwynn (951), Paul Waner (939) and Eddie Murray (934).
The maracayero ranks fifth in the group of Latin American hitters with the most multi-hitter games. Above are the Dominican Alber Pujols (922), the Panamanian Rod Carew (896), the Puerto Rican Roberto Clemente (876) and the Dominican Adrián Beltre (872).
Already on May 7, Cabrera reached Ruth in the 46th place on the list of hitters with the most hits by reaching 2,873 undisputed in a game against the Twins held at Comerica Park in Detroit.
Last Thursday, June 10, against the Mariners in Detroit, Cabrera doubled in four at-bats and reached 2,900 hits in his brilliant career as a bigleaguer.
In a very exclusive club
With two more bases reached, Miguel Cabrera will become just the eighth member of a singular list of hitters with a minimum of 2,900 hits, 450 home runs, 580 doubles and 5,000 bases reached. It includes:
- Barry Bonds (762HR/2.935H/601 2B y 5976 BA)
- Hank Aaron (755/3.771/624/6.856)
- The Dominican Albert Pujols (672 / 3,269 / 671 / 5,988)
- The Cuban Rafael Palmeiro (569 / 3.020 / 585 / 5.388)
- The Dominican Adrián Beltré (477 / 3,166 / 636 / 5,309)
- Stan Musial (475 / 3.630 / 725 / 6.134)
- Cal Yastrzemski (452/3.419/646/5.539).
Not counting yesterday’s session, Cabrera accumulated 492 home runs, 2904 hits, 584 tubeyes and 4,998 bases reached with Marlins and Tigers.
