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Justin Verlander has made more memorable starts in his career than he can count. This wasn't one of them.Thursday night&#...
Justin Verlander has arguably more above-average pitches than anybody in the game. He threw a no-hitter two years ago in Toro...
The Astros reached the point in the season on Sunday where the air had to be cleared. Someone had to step up and say what nee...
Justin Verlander has ended a lot of Aprils saying he feels like pitches are starting to come together for him. Statistically,...
The weather was miserable Sunday night, like somebody threw a mister over Comerica Park. The crowd didn't seem to care. T...
Was it all a mirage, this Tigers bullpen in working order? Or was it numbers working against them?It all lined up so well for...
Tailgating since 8:30 a.m., a lot of A's fans showed up at O.co Coliseum to watch the pitcher who was the reason the flee...
Justin Verlander casually mentioned in January how cool it would be to spend his entire career in a Tigers uniform. He took o...
Justin Verlander and Cole Hamels engaged in the kind of pitching duel, albeit a brief one, that one would expect from them in...
Justin Verlander and Cole Hamels engaged in the kind of pitching duel, albeit a brief one, that one would expect from them in...
After all the debate, all the rhetoric, all the statistical and historical analysis, it wasn't close. Miguel Cabrera was ...
The Tigers needed a miracle to get back into the World Series. They had to settle for a teeth-chattering nail-biter on their ...
Justin Verlander likes to say the Tigers have been playing must-win baseball since September. Now, for just the second time t...
The smirk on Justin Verlander's face as Tigers pitching coach Jeff Jones slowly ambled to the mound in the third inning s...
Nobody makes a two-run lead feel like a chasm like Justin Verlander. In case anybody forgot, the Yankees nearly erased it at ...
This is why the Tigers felt they could do something in October if they could only get there. Whatever the other factors, they...
The A's seemingly had destiny on their side. The Tigers had Justin Verlander on theirs.Destiny didn't stand a chance....
The Tigers stood three outs away from a return to the American League Championship Series. All the ups and downs of the seaso...
The roar of a sellout crowd quashed any hope that the Tigers could stroll through town and get a win like it was a regular-se...
Technically, the A's hold home-field advantage in this American League Division Series. But when Justin Verlander opens a...
As October marches on, the Tigers will play far more important games. But when the regular season's final out was made, M...
The Tigers knew what the White Sox were doing Saturday afternoon. They couldn't miss it on the huge out-of-town scoreboar...
Justin Verlander can spot a 99-mph fastball on the corner to strike out a hitter, come back with curveballs to get ahead of t...
The tarp went on the infield at U.S. Cellular Field almost as soon as the White Sox recorded the final out of the Tigers 5-4 ...
So much for the usual Chicago-to-Cleveland letdown the Tigers have suffered whenever they've gone from beating the first-...
Stop me if you're heard this one: Justin Verlander and Chris Sale will walk onto a mound with the American League Central...
The Tigers awakened from their September slumber on Tuesday, just in time to even their four-game division clash with the Whi...
Rick Porcello went four weeks without the Tigers scoring a run while he was pitching. On the night his offense finally got hi...
Justin Verlander couldn't help but notice the Tigers' opportunity to move into a first-place tie in the division afte...
If the Tigers keep pitching this well, they'll take their chances. For the first time this series, their chances paid off...
The big showdown for the Tigers and White Sox awaits Sunday night. The big performance from Detroit's other shutdown pitc...
The Blue Jays went two years and 13 innings between hits off Justin Verlander. They nearly got out of town with two hits stru...
Max Scherzer remains on pace for the highest strikeout rate per nine innings by a starter since Randy Johnson in 2002. The Bl...
When the Yankees come to town, count on two things: The crowds are big, and the at-bats are long.They were right on both coun...
Tigers manager Jim Leyland set the expectations before Justin Verlander had arrived at Comerica Park on Monday."Hopefull...
The Tigers scored more than three runs just three times on this nine-game road trip that began in Cleveland and stopped over ...
When the Tigers look back on their struggles to drive in runs at times this season, they'll look at this one and have to ...
This is why the Tigers held back Justin Verlander a couple days out of the All-Star break, to beat the White Sox and Jake Pea...
Max Scherzer had a tough act to follow Thursday. One night after Doug Fister's eight-inning, two-hit, 10-strikeout perfor...
Tigers manager Jim Leyland has repeatedly said that pitching will be the determining factor in how far Detroit can go this se...
One year ago Tuesday, the Tigers were coming off a complete-game shutout at the hands of ex-teammate Edwin Jackson and trying...
From Justin Verlander's first pitch, it was clear Sunday's outing would be nothing like the All-Star Game.Not that th...
The Tigers have turned to Justin Verlander for wins at Kauffman Stadium for seven years. Why wouldn't the American League...
The Tigers have turned to Justin Verlander for wins at Kauffman Stadium for seven years. Why wouldn't the American League...
The Tigers didn't get back to .500 for the season, as they had hoped by the end of their three-city, 10-game road trip, b...
For the second consecutive night, the Tigers put up more than a dozen hits and set a career high against their opposing start...
It's not a hump, that .500 mark for the Tigers. It's more like a road bump, the way they see it.Still, as many times ...
Jim Leyland wants more of a mean streak out of his Tigers. At least once every five games, he doesn't have to look beyond...
With two outs in the fourth inning, the rain began pouring down on a sold-out Father's Day crowd of 40,619 at Comerica Pa...
Manager Jim Leyland described baseball at Wrigley Field as more of a happening than a game. The audible Detroit fans contribu...
Justin Verlander's winless streak stretched to four games Saturday. He didn't particularly care.The line from Verland...
A smile isn't something seen in the Tigers' clubhouse too often as of late. But after picking up his first career vic...
The last time Justin Verlander lost three consecutive starts, he ended up leading the American League in losses. That was 200...
Five days ago, Justin Verlander threw 100-mph fastballs in the eighth and turned in an inning to remember during a loss in Cl...
For the second year in a row, the Indians swept the Tigers out of town in Detroit's first stop at Progressive Field. As a...
This is the Max Scherzer the Tigers have been waiting to see. It took a lot of work to get him there."I've worked re...
Struggling for hits all season, even under ordinary circumstances, the Pirates were no match for the extraordinary on Friday ...
Justin Verlander is still the Tigers' constant.Weary of the checkerboard pattern of wins and losses on the calendar? Worr...
The Tigers found the form they'd been looking for out of Brandon Inge ever since last summer. It just came in the wrong u...
Forget about the standings. The way the Mariners seem to play the Tigers every time, Detroit had to battle to finally get a w...
The Tigers couldn't quite pull off the late come-from-behind victory on Wednesday afternoon.Behind a two-run home run fro...
A walk-off passed ball was the capper to a long day for the Tigers in which everything seemed to go wrong.Some of it is what ...
The Rangers might be the most confident bunch of hitters in baseball right now. Justin Verlander is pretty confident, too. He...
The Tigers will have to wait a day to resume their American League Championship Series rematch with the Rangers. A line of sh...
The Tigers will have to wait a day to resume their American League Championship Series rematch with the Rangers. A line of sh...
Pure and simple, it was Justin Verlander's game to win or lose.Closer? Never mind. Verlander wanted to finish what he had...
Nine games into the 2012 season, the vaunted Tigers rotation has finally gotten off the ground with a victory. The first one ...
The Tigers weren't going to win them all. But nobody imagined them losing their first like this.What started as Justin Ve...
The Tigers came home Thursday morning as a team billed with star power. They left Comerica Park later in the afternoon lookin...
Justin Verlander looked at Alex Avila in the Tigers' dugout and smiled as the raindrops fell. Considering he was in the same...
Robinson Cano crushed a grand slam home run to lift the New York Yankees to a 9-3 rout of the Detroit Tigers on Saturday and ...
Justin Verlander became the majors’ first 20-game winner, grinding through six innings in the Detroit Tigers’ 6-...
Heading into the All-Star break, the Tigers were one of the top run-scoring teams in the Majors but had one of the highest ER...
Heading into the All-Star break, the Tigers were one of the top run-scoring teams in the Majors but had one of the highest ER...
One season 12 years ago as the Rockies manager, Jim Leyland gave a simple gauge for measuring the effectiveness of a startin...
Justin Verlander still remembers his struggles at U.S. Cellular Field earlier in his career. After seven straight wins again...
Ten days after Justin Verlander and Josh Beckett battled to no-decisions, their rematch Sunday night at Comerica Park came d...
The Tigers were in and out of town in less than 48 hours. It only seemed like an eternity with every play at Target Field.In ...
Justin Verlander further cemented his place among the Tigers' all-time greats by throwing the second no-hitter of his career...
