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- Updated: September 28, 2016
DETROIT — The Indians held Miguel Cabrera to five RBIs for the first 16 games of their season series against the Tigers. He needed just two at-bats in two innings to match that Tuesday.
With the postseason race heating up, he couldn’t have picked a much better time, either.
“He tends to shine brightest when he needs to,” pitcher Justin Verlander said after Cabrera’s three-hit performance provided some of the offensive support for a 12-0 win at Comerica Park.
The Indians owned the season series this year in no small part thanks to their ability to contain Cabrera, who had tormented Cleveland over the years. He entered Tuesday 13-for-51 (.255) against the Tribe in 2016, but with only one extra-base hit, a double.
While the Indians sent rookie Mike Clevinger to the mound as they try to figure out their injury-shortened rotation for the postseason, Cabrera stepped to the plate with the Tigers’ postseason hopes on his shoulders. With runners at second and third and nobody …
