VIDEO: Watch each of Miguel Cabrera's 100th, 200th, 300th, 400th, and 500th career home runs

Here's a look at each of Miguel Cabrera's major milestone home runs.

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Miguel Cabrera will be retiring in less than a month. That is hard to believe. He's been such a huge part of many fans' lives — not just Detroit Tigers fan, but baseball fans in general.

As part of Miggy Month here at Motor City Bengals, we thought we'd take a look back at each of Miggy's major milestone home runs. We'll start with his 100th career homer and end with his 500th career bomb.

Each home run will be accompanied by video of the shot, with the exception of his 200th home run. This is going to be a fun ride. We hope you'll come along with us.

Miguel Cabrera's 100th career home run

Miggy's 100th career bomb is the only milestone homer that didn't come when he was with the Detroit Tigers. This one came back on Aug. 23, 2006, when he was with the then-Florida Marlins.

He pulls this ball to left field off Washington Nationals' pitcher Chris Schroder, who came on in relief in the second inning of this game after starter Tony Armas allowed 10 hits and eight runs through 1.2 IP.

As the TV announcer alluded to, this was his second home run of the game. He hit one off Armas earlier in the game.

He had an OPS over 1.000 in 2006 after this game. He was also hitting .341. This wasn't a bad Marlins lineup either, with the likes of a young Hanley Ramirez and prime Dan Uggla. Josh Willingham and Mike Jacobs weren't half bad either.

Miggy was just 23 years old when he hit his 100th career round-tripper. That's just incredible. We may not have known it yet, but we were already in the presence of a generational hitting talent.

Miguel Cabrera's 200th career home run

The rest of these homers will be when he was a Tiger, starting with his 200th career home run in 2009. This came three years to the day after his 100th home run.

Unfortunately, no video of this home run is readily available, since MLB has limited footage archived from the 2009 season for whatever reason. You'll just have to trust us on this one. It definitely happened.

Miggy hit this one in the eighth inning of a game against the Athletic in Oakland. He hit it off A's reliever Michael Wuertz. It was his 25th home run of the season at the time.

He had three hits in this game to increase his average to .338 at the time. The Tigers may have lost this game, but Cabrera had already reached another milestone, with many more yet to come.

Miguel Cabrera's 300th career home run

Back to some home runs with video. Miggy's 300th home run came on July 22, 2012 at home against the Chicago White Sox. It's the only one of his major milestone home runs to be hit at Comerica Park.

Many fans will probably remember this one simply because of how far it was hit. He hit the camera well with this blast. It wasn't the first, nor was it the last time he would hit a ball into the camera well in deep center field.

Much like his 100th homer in 2006, this was also his second home run of the game. He homered in the first inning of this game as well. Both bombs were hit off Philip Humber.

This was, of course, in the midst of Miggy's triple crown season. This gave him 23 home runs on the year at the time. He would go on to hit 21 more to win the presitigous award.

Miguel Cabrera's 400th career home run

Cabrera's 400th home run came on May 16, 2015 at Busch Stadium against the St. Louis Cardinals. It was early in the game. With two outs in the first inning, fans were just settling in at the ballpark before he deposited a ball over the wall in dead center field.

He hit this one off Cardinals' starter Tyler Lyons. He tried to come in with a fastball to one of the greatest hitters of all-time. Bad move there, chief.

This was really the first year we saw the injury bug catch up with Miggy. This was his 10th home run of the season, and he would only go on to hit eight more in 2015. He still hit .338 with a .974 OPS, so it's not like he was bad or anything. But the home run power started to fall of beginning with this season, though he did hit 38 bombs in 2016.

The Tigers went on to win this game in extra innings, but Miggy had already etched his name further into the history books.

Miguel Cabrera's 500th career home run

This is likely the one that you're all here for. The 500th home run chase in 2021 was something that will be remembered by Tigers fans for a lifetime.

It felt like he was stuck on 499 forever. No pitcher wanted to be the one to give up the 500th homer. Miggy would get walked often during this stretch, but he would joke that he didn't mind because it raised his on-base percentage.

In the sixth inning, he came up to bat against Blue Jays' lefty Steven Matz. He got the count to 1-1 before he finally did it.

The pitch wasn't even a strike, and he drove it the opposite way for a homer. Just a classic Miguel Cabrera swing.

He had finally done it. 500 career home runs. The only thing that would have made it better was if he had done it at home.

Luckily, he went on to record his 3,000th career hit at Comerica Park, so Tigers fans didn't have to go far to see one of his biggest milestones.

It's crazy that Miguel Cabrera's storied career is finally coing to an end. We hope you enjoyed reliving all of his milestone home runs as much as we did.

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