Miggy snaps cold streak with vintage effort

DETROIT — Josh Reddick has been a Tigers nemesis dating back to those A’s-Tigers postseason series a few years back, but he’s still friendly enough to talk with players. So when he singled in the fourth inning of Monday’s 7-3 Detroit win, he saw Miguel Cabrera and said hello.

“I was talking to him when I got on first base, asked him how he felt,” Reddick said. “He said he felt like [garbage] up to tonight. I told him he’s Miguel Cabrera and he’ll be just fine.”

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Cabrera already had a home run and a double in the game, ending an 0-for-13 slump and a homerless stretch of 2 1/2 weeks. By the time Reddick singled again and saw Cabrera in the sixth, he had added another homer.

“I said, ‘I told you you’d be alright,'” Reddick said.

Cabrera didn’t feel like himself for much of the first few weeks of the season. He was healthy, doing agility drills he hadn’t been able to do during a season in years, but his timing was off at the …

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