Source: all-breaking-news.com
Finishing second in the M.V.P. voting was Detroits Miguel Cabrera a first baseman who began last season by acknowledging he had problems with alcohol and said he was addressing them.
But after a successful season at the plate last year, Cabrera showed up at training camp following a February arrest in Florida for suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.
So the Tigers decided to also give Cabrera a personal coach. He is Raul Gonzalez, a 20-year veteran of professional baseball who uses the locker next to Cabrera and travels with the team.
On Sunday, things went well for Cabrera. He hit a pair of two-run home runs off Phil Hughes as the Tigers beat the Yankees, 10-7, at Yankee Stadium.
Cabrera also singled in the ninth inning Sunday, and went 5 for 11 in the season-opening series. Cabrera hit .328 with 38 home runs and 126 runs batted in last season.
Yankees designated hitter Jorge Posada also hit a pair of two-run home runs. The teams combined for seven home runs before 40,574 fans on a day when the breeze blew from home plate to the outfield.
Cabrera hit his first home run in the first inning and his next in the third. Hughes (0-1) worked only four innings in his first appearance of the season and gave up five runs on five hits.
Posada hit his first home run in the second, off starter Max Scherzer. He hit his second in the fifth, also off Scherzer (1-0), who left after five innings with a 7-6 lead.
Brennan Boesch, who had four hits, four runs batted in and scored four times, hit a two-run home run in the fifth for the Tigers. The other Yankees home runs were by Mark Teixeira (his third of the season, a solo shot in the third); and Robinson Cano (also a solo shot in the third).
The Yankees, who beat Detroit in the first two games of the series, remain home to begin a four-game set with the Minnesota Twins on Monday night.
The Tigers, on their way to Baltimore, are monitoring Cabrera so closely this season that they are telling news media members that he will talk only about baseball subjects. They have not permitted any interviews with Gonzalez.
When Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports tried to interview Cabrera about his personal life before Saturdays national game of the week, Rosenthal was rebuffed by the Tigers, he reported on the networks telecast.
According to Februarys sheriffs report in St. Lucie County, Fla., Cabrera told the arresting officer Do you know who I am? I play for the Detroit Tigers!
Police also said Cabrera also drank from a bottle of Scotch in his Range Rover and repeatedly refused to cooperate, at one point directing an obscene gesture at police.
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