Famous Moments & People in Comerica Park History

• Jim Leyland and his great teams of the early 2010’s

• Maggs sends the Tigers to the World Series – Game 4, 2006 ALCS – Magglio Ordonez hammers a shot over the left field wall off two-time all-star Huston Street in walk-off fashion, sending the Tigers to the World Series, where they’d fall to the St. Louis Cardinals.  Three years, prior, the Tigers lost 119 games.  What a turnaround for a team who had only made the playoffs once since winning the 1984 World Series!

• Miggy! – Where do we begin?  Miguel Cabrera won the 2012 Triple Crown, something that had not been done in 45 years, when Carl Yastrzemski did for the Red Sox in 1967.  He was acquired in one of the most lopsided trades in MLB history, coming from the Florida Marlins.  He was a 12X all-star, a 7X Silver Slugger, a 4X batting champ and won the AL MVP in 2012 and 2013.  He finished in the top-5 in MVP voting five times and is one of the greatest hitters baseball has ever seen.   

• The 2012 AL Champions – The Tigers sweep the Yankees behind the dominant rotation of Scherzer Verlander, Sanchez and Fister. Oh yeah, they had that Miggy guy as well, who won the Triple Crown that year.  Jhonny Peralta went nuts that series as well, but Delmon Young wins the ALCS MVP, hitting two homers.   

• Jim Leyland - He took the Tigers to two World Series in his eight seasons as the bench boss.  He won three straight AL Central titles to end his tenure there.  

• JV – Justin Verlander played the first 13 years of his career in Detroit, winning the pitcher’s triple crown (a unofficial award) in 2011, leading the AL in ERA (2.40), strikeouts (250) and wins (24).  He won the AL MVP that year and his first of three Cy Young Awards.  For his career, he’s taken home a plethora of awards: 2006 AL ROY, three Cy Young Awards, nine all-star games, two World Series wins (both with HOU), two ERA titles and an ALCS MVP in  2017.  He is one of the greatest pitchers in not only Tigers history, but MLB history.  

• JV’s No-no – June 12th, 2007 – Justin Verlander no-hit the Milwaukee Brewers on 112 pitches, fanning 12.  It would be his first of three career no-hitters he’d throw! 

• Da Meat Hook’s Opener – April 4th, 2005 – Dmitri Young, one of the funniest people to ever grace a baseball field, hits three home runs on Opening Day at Comerica Park in 2005 against the Royals.  

• Ernie Harwell says goodbye – September 16th, 2009 – He spent 42 years as the Tigers play-by-play man and was beloved.  He retired at the end of the 2002 season, but came back one night to thank the fans one last time.  His farewell happened between innings of a game between the Royals and Tigers at Comerica Park.  He passed away on May 4th, 2010 after a battle with cancer.