At 2,999 hits for his career, Miguel Cabrera was at the plate with the Tigers up 1–0 against the Yankees in the bottom of the eighth inning. With Cabrera just one hit away from history, New York walked the future Hall of Famer.
The unforgiving Detroit crowd let the Yankees hear it after they robbed them of a potentially history-making at-bat. But the Tigers made the Yankees pay not long after.