Vizquel raves about Miggy’s baserunning

MINNEAPOLIS — Omar Vizquel is known for preaching baserunning awareness and taking advantage of situations. He demonstrated it during his years as a player. He reinforces it as a coach.

He doesn’t have to reinforce it with Miguel Cabrera.

“We say that all the time: ‘You don’t have to be a fast guy to be a good baserunner,'” Vizquel said. “Well, he seems to do that all the time, taking that extra base whenever we need to.”

When Cabrera made his daring trip around the bases Tuesday night — stretching out a double, taking third base on a fly ball to center, then scoring on a groundout behind third base — he didn’t get any pointers from Vizquel at first base. He was already thinking two bases out of the box.

Instead, after Cabrera manufactured a run to stretch the Tigers’ lead to 2-0, Vizquel talked to him at the end of the inning.

“After he made that run, I told him, ‘That’s the way to play the game. That was awesome,'” Vizquel said. “He said, ‘It’s got to be beautiful to be fast.’

“He always comes up with …

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