Erasing mini-slide, Miggy back in prime form

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DETROIT — Rays manager Kevin Cash has seen this Miguel Cabrera before.

As Cabrera’s second home run on Friday night clanked off the front of Comerica Park’s center-field camera well, bringing the Tigers within a run in the seventh inning, all Cash could hope for was that Cabrera wouldn’t come back up with a chance to tie or win it.

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Once Cabrera came back up in the ninth as the tying run against Alex Colome, a pitcher Cabrera twice homered off in 2013, all Cash could hope for was to keep the 10-time All-Star in the park. It was one of the happiest singles Colome might allow, and it kept the Rays in line for their 7-5 win.

Still, if the Rays had played their outfielders any deeper, they might have needed their passports for the border to cross into Canada.

“Played against him. Coached against him. Saw him way too much in Cleveland when I was the bullpen coach there,” Cash said. “The guy’s …

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