Verlander Honors Wounded Vets When He Pitches For Tigers
When Justin "No-Hit" Verlander takes to the mound at Comerica Park this season, he'll have his own personal cheering section.
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When Justin "No-Hit" Verlander takes to the mound at Comerica Park this season, he'll have his own personal cheering section.
Once upon a time, it would have borne watching the next time Justin Verlander faces Kansas City's Melky Cabrera.
Justin Verlander didn't throw a second straight no-hit game -- but he had the stuff to do so.
Shortly after becoming just the 30th pitcher in major league history to throw multiple no-hitters, Justin Verlander was already thinking about his next opponent.
On today's Detroit Tigers pregame show Jim Price talked with former Tigers pitcher Jack Morris about Justin Verlander's recent no-hitter.
Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander tossed his second no-hitter — no thanks to dozens of people who broke a very important unwritten rule.
Justin Verlander was picking up the check. The steaks and wine were on him, and why not?
There's something very special about what happened in Toronto on Saturday. Justin Verlander threw a no-hitter, the second of his career and just the seventh ever by a Tiger pitcher. That's pretty amazing when you think about it, considering that the Tigers have been around for 110 years and have played at least 154 games in each of those seasons. That's about 17 thousand games if my math is correct.
Verlander barely missed a perfect game. He becomes the 30th pitcher in major league history to throw multiple career no- hitters.
Something was different at the Rogers Center on this Saturday afternoon (May 7, 2011). The roof was open for the first time all season and it might be the last time. Why? Because of Justin Verlander who started the game retiring 22 Blue Jays before walking J.P. Arencibia on a 3-2 count during a 12 pitch at bat.
Monday at Comerica Park had just about everything a baseball fan could ask for going on.
Justin Verlander felt good, too good. Throwing as high as 100 mph in both his first and last innings, Verlander had trouble with his control.
The Detroit Tigers' run of impressive starting pitching is over and so is the team's winning streak.
Let's not get carried away. But the Tigers are finally giving us reason to be excited about this season, after a weekend sweep of the Chicago White Sox.
Looks like Justin Verlander is finally adding great baseball intelligence to his great pitching ability.
The Red Wings held a practice at the Joe today before taking the rest of the weekend off for the Easter holiday. Johan Franzen did not practice but Henrik Zetterberg did and told reporters he is ready for game 1 of round 2.
During Saturday night's Tigers game against the A's Justin Verlander did something that many people have never seen below.
Justin Verlander has now provided Detroit the only starts this season that have lasted seven innings or longer.
Alexi Ogando outpitched Justin Verlander before leaving with a finger problem and the Texas Rangers beat the Detroit Tigers 2-0 Monday to match the best 10-game start in team history.
Justin Verlander remained unbeaten against Baltimore in his career, striking out nine and allowing four hits in eight innings.
But you can't tell us, all August, like Skip does, "this game is no more important than a game in April," than not emphasize a game like tonight.
Justin Verlander said he would start as scheduled Wednesday at Baltimore although he had some kind of food poisoning late last week in New York.
Curtis Granderson hit a go-ahead homer leading off the seventh inning and Mark Teixeira had a three-run shot off Justin Verlander, lifting New York over the Detroit Tigers 6-3 Thursday in the first regular-season game played in the Bronx in March.
Nothing bashful about Justin Verlander. He has big talent and lofty goals as he enters his sixth season in the majors, which had him pitching the season opener Thursday in New York against the Yankees.
