Cardinals-Tigers Preview 6-19-12
As dominant as Justin Verlander has been against the NL, his starts against the St. Louis Cardinals have been downright forgettable.
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As dominant as Justin Verlander has been against the NL, his starts against the St. Louis Cardinals have been downright forgettable.
It's nice, every now and then, to stop and take stock of what you have.
Justin Verlander pitched eight solid innings for his first win in a month and the Detroit Tigers beat the Chicago Cubs 5-3 on Thursday in front of another receptive crowd at Wrigley Field.
When Justin Verlander takes the ball against an NL team that is unaccustomed to facing the four-time All Star, the results typically aren't pretty for the Senior Circuit squad.
As you may have heard, baseball's annual draft -- known variously as the First-Year Player Draft or the Rule-4 Draft -- will unfold on Monday night in New York City.
Justin Verlander will get an extra day of rest before his next start -- one more day of agonizing over three straight losses.
Justin Verlander pitched six innings but gave up 10 hits and five runs in taking his second straight loss.
Justin Verlander gave up a home run to the first batter of the game and a stolen base in the fourth, and those two runs cost the Cy Young/MVP award winner his first loss in his last 14 decisions away from Comerica Park.
Justin Masterson matched Justin Verlander pitch for pitch for first his career win over Detroit, and the first-place Cleveland Indians did just enough to beat the reigning AL MVP 2-1 Thursday to complete a three-game sweep of the underperforming Tigers.
Justin Verlander is pitching like the reigning Cy Young Award winner he is for the Detroit Tigers.
Calvin Johnson, Justin Verlander, Barry Sanders and now Pavel Datsyuk?
Welcome back to the 2012 Detroit Tigers and grim reality. At least early this season.
A day after Justin Verlander's one-hitter against the Pirates, Tigers manager Jim Leyland was no less impressed.
Justin Verlander's "Fastball Flakes" have been selling like crazy. And Wednesday, the Tigers star pitcher wrote a big check for VA hospitals.
Big players come up big in big games, the cliche goes.
Justin Verlander struggled with the strike zone for four innings Tuesday night but was efficient in his last two to record his 49th consecutive start of at least six innings.
The Mariners rallied from an early 5-0 deficit against ace Justin Verlander, loaded the bases in the ninth against versus Detroit closer Jose Valverde but couldn't come up with the needed hit in a 6-4 loss to the Tigers on Tuesday night.
The Seattle Mariners have had the Detroit Tigers' number of late.
There are many ways to measure "better" but Justin Verlander isn't interested in the statistical part.
It's safe to say the Detroit Tigers have had their way with the Kansas City Royals of late.
The Detroit Tigers eliminated the New York Yankees in the opening round of the playoffs last fall.
During the question and answer session, Verlander said he's competitive about "pretty much everything" -- adding, "please don't try to race me on the highway, I will beat you"
In one of the great examples of clutch pitching you will ever see, Justin Verlander struck out Alex Gordon with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth to close out a thrilling 3-2 win for the Tigers over the Kansas City Royals.
Justin Verlander is an absolute beast. His complete game performance last night and ending the game on a strikeout was fantastic viewing.
