Cabrera reaches milestone as Tigers top Cards

ST. LOUIS — Miguel Cabrera hit his 400th career home run, then nearly five hours later Jose Iglesias had an RBI single in the 10th inning that sent the Detroit Tigers over the St. Louis Cardinals 4-3 on a rainy Saturday.

Cabrera’s milestone shot gave him the most home runs by a Venezuelan-born player, passing Andres Galarraga. The solo shot came in the first inning just before a rain delay of 1 hour, 20 minutes.

Cabrera has hit four home runs in three games, 10 overall and 262 with Detroit, tying him with Willie Horton for fourth on the franchise list.

Adrian Beltre of Texas hit his 400th home run Friday. Cabrera tied Beltre for 52nd place on the career list, with Duke Snider next at 407.

Tigers starter David Price threw only a couple of pitches before the rain delay. He surrendered three home runs, matching the total he’d allowed in his first seven starts, but all were with the bases empty.

Matt Carpenter, Peter Bourjos and Jhonny Peralta connected, but the Cardinals made three costly base-running goofs in the final three innings.

Blaine Hardy (1-0) struck out two with a walk in the ninth and Joakim Soria finished for his 12th save in 12 chances. Detroit, which pasted St. Louis 10-4 in the opener, will go for a three-game interleague sweep today.

Iglesias, the eighth-place hitter, flied out with the bases loaded to end the third and popped out with two on to finish the fifth. He came

through with two outs in the 10th against Matt Belisle (1-1).

J.D. Martinez drew a leadoff walk and Yoenis Cespedes followed with a single. Two outs later, Iglesias singled.

The Cardinals blew a chance to take the lead in the seventh. Jason Heyward stayed near second base, waiting to tag up, and could just reach third when Randal Grichuk’s flyball hit the wall for a double.

Cabrera caught a foul popup near the first base stands and threw out pinch runner Pete Kozma trying to advance to third in the eighth. Matt Holliday was easily thrown out going for a double leading off the 10th.