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Miguel Cabrera has been hot to start the 2022 season in his quest for 3,000 hits. After starting the year 13 hits off from joining the exclusive club, Cabrera batted .308 in his first 12 games played. He had 12 hits on the year heading into Saturday's contest against the Rockies with 2,999 hits -- one off from joining some prestigious company. Lajoie was the second of two Hall of Famers to reach 3,000 hits in 1914, with Honus Wagner being the first. The longtime face of the Indians franchise -- the team was actually renamed the Naps while Lajoie played there because of his popularity -- was in what would be his last season with Cleveland. The two-time Triple Crown winner got his 3,000th hit in a doubleheader against the Yankees, knocking a double off Marty McHale.
If it seems like we just discussed a major milestone with Cabrera, it's because we did. He slugged the 500th home run of his illustrious career last Aug. 22.
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The Captain walked to the plate in the third inning at Yankee Stadium to chants of "Derek Jeter!" from the crowd of 48,103. The franchise icon had notched hit No. 2,999 in his first at-bat, and he wasted no time getting to 3,000. Jeter launched David Price's offering into the left-field bleachers to join the 3,000-hit club. Future Hall of Famer Albert Pujols, who is now in his 21st MLB season, is the most recent addition to the club. The two-time World Series winner joined the Los Angeles Angels in 2012 after collecting 2,073 hits with the St. Louis Cardinals, he entered the 3,000-hit club on May 4, 2018, against the Seattle Mariners. 17 were right-handed, 13 were left-handed, and two were switch batters among the club’s 32 members.
He overcame racist taunts and death threats to famously pass Babe Ruth on April 8, 1974. Just over a decade after Nap Lajoie accomplished the feat, Speaker, another Indians great, notched his 3,000th hit. Speaker had come to Cleveland two seasons after Lajoie left, and he won the Triple Crown in his first year with the Indians.
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The first member of the 3,000-hit club, Anson had the milestone under his belt before the modern era began. He of course ranks second all-time with 755 home runs, first in RBIs with 2,297 and third in hits with 3,771. His most famous milestone achievement was his 715th home run, which surpassed Babe Ruth for the MLB record until Barry Bonds, in turn, surpassed Aaron.
He did the honors with a single in the second game of a doubleheader at Cincinnati's Crosley Field. Stan Musial, the last player to enter the 3,000-hit club, was there to present Aaron with the ball. Charlie Hustle has more hits than any player in the history of Major League Baseball. He notched No. 3,000 and still had more than 1,000 hits left in him.
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Cramer’s.272 batting average was the best in the American League and he led the league in at-bats seven times. He began his playing career in Philadelphia and spent the majority of his career in the deadball era, from 1887 to 1907. In Major League Baseball, a player who accumulates 3,000 hits is considered a milestone achievement.
What baseball hall of famer had the least home runs with most hits in his career? Although John McGraw went into the Hall of Fame as a manager, he was a pretty good ballplayer ending up his career with a .334 batting average. He had 1309 career base hits and 13 career home runs for a average of 1 home run every 100.7 base hits. Of the Hall of Famers that had 3000 base hits, only two hit less than 100 home runs.
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Thomas’ 500th blast came at the Metrodome against the team he tormented the most . “The Big Hurt” authored the first 40-homer season in White Sox history in 1993, the year in which he won the first of his back-to-back AL MVP awards. Thome picked a great time for his 500th dinger, knocking it off Angels reliever Dustin Moseley in the bottom of the ninth for a walk-off, two-run shot on the South Side of Chicago. The most recent player before Cabrera to get to 3,000 hits was Pujols in 2018, with Pujols taking a single the other way with the Angels against the Seattle Mariners. With Cabrera now in the club, Sporting News is taking a look at the 3,000 hits club and the company Cabrera shares.
Robinson, who famously won an MVP Award with both the NL’s Reds and the AL’s Orioles, also became the first player to knock at least 200 dingers in each league. He hit No. 499 in the first inning of the first game of an Orioles’ doubleheader against the Tigers, and No. 500 in the bottom of the ninth in Game 2. “The Kid” knocked No. 500 on Father’s Day with his father, Ken Sr., in attendance at St. Louis’ Busch Stadium. Griffey was, at one time, the youngest player to reach 350, 400 and 450 homers before injuries slowed his pace. Aaron was the model of consistency, clubbing at least 20 homers in a record 20 of his 22 full big league seasons.
With his Triple Crown in 2012, Cabrera became one of just three players to win a Triple Crown and get to 3,000 hits for his career. Winfield's 3,000th hit was extra special because he did it for his hometown team. A St. Paul, Minn., native, Winfield didn't play for the Twins until the tail end of his career, but that was perfect timing for the fans to see him reach his milestone hit. Winfield got it with a ground-ball single through the left side of the infield in front of 14,654 fans at the Metrodome.
Miguel Cabrera delivered his 500th home run on Sunday afternoon at Rogers Centre in Toronto, going deep off of Steven Matz with one out in the sixth inning. “The Babe,” of course, hit 714 home runs throughout his 22-year MLB career, his last three coming on May 25, 1935, as a member of the Boston Braves. Bonds actually owns the second-highest season for home runs without reaching 100 RBIs, when he clubbed 45 dingers and drove in thanks, in large part, to his 148 walks -- in 2003. He would have surely blasted past 2,000 RBIs had opposing pitchers simply chosen to pitch to him more often than they did. "It was a curveball. I was just trying to meet the ball," Musial said after the game.
Reaching 3,000 hits, which many consider to be even more remarkable than hitting 500 career home runs, is definitely no simple feat. Isn’t hitting 200 home runs in a single MLB season considered a fantastic year? To reach 3,000 hits, simple arithmetic tells us that someone would have to do it for 15 years in a row. With a fifth-inning single that drove in Mike Trout in Houston, Pujols recorded the 2,087th RBI of his Hall-of-Fame worthy career. Pujols already belonged to one of baseball's most exclusive fraternities -- the 2,000-RBI club -- but that hit moved him past Alex Rodriguez for second on the all-time leaderboard. What Two players have 500 home runs 3000 hits and a 300 batting average?
