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Post by bigjeep on May 7, 2024 18:08:52 GMT -5
Trashtros  |
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 7, 2024 18:09:30 GMT -5
Haha! You said Verlander is going for the Tigers tonight. I hope so, we’re playing the Astros… 😂 I'd like to say it was time travel vapor lock, but I think I just forget to change it from the Skubal game preview. 2-2 on Altuve. |
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Post by chiyankee on May 7, 2024 18:10:05 GMT -5
Kay, O'Neill and Cone reunited in the booth.
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 7, 2024 18:10:22 GMT -5
Fouls off a 97 FB up in the zone, still 2-2
FB in the zone at the top, middle-in, grounded to 3rd, Berti fields and throws him out, 1 down.
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Post by inger on May 7, 2024 18:11:26 GMT -5
Verlander is 10-9 in 27 starts vs. the Yankees with a 3.42 ERA. Pretty good, but not up to his other career stats. 5-5, 3.31 in YS3… Maybe he’s due for a dog tonight…His control has been a bit of an issue, so be patient…
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Post by kaybli on May 7, 2024 18:11:59 GMT -5
Tucker crushes one. 1-0 Trashtros.
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Post by bigjeep on May 7, 2024 18:12:19 GMT -5
Justin Verlander goes for the Tigers this evening. To review his career would that 4 or 5 paragraphs on it's own, so I will summarize. The 2nd pick of the Rule 4 draft in 2004, the Tigers rocketed him through their farm system in 2005, and brought him to the majors after just 20 starts in A and AA, finishing off the 2005 season with 2 poor starts. From 2006 on Verlander has been one of the best starting pitchers in the AL, compiling 3 Cy Young Awards, 9 All-Star selections, the Rookie of the Year Award, and two World Series Champions Rings. He's been the ace of his staff almost every year since, and this is now his 19th MLB season (he missed all of 2021) due to injuries. He's won 258 games, is just one six pitchers in MLB history to have thrown three or more no-hitters (only Nolan Ryan and Sandy Koufax have thrown more) and stands 12th on the all-time strikeout list for pitchers. Verlander is, in short, a no-doubt first-ballot inner-circle Hall of Famer the moment he becomes eligible five years after his retirement. Whenever that comes.
He's 41 this season, and even for no-doubt Hall of Fame pitchers, with advancing ace comes increasing time lost due to injuries and at least somewhat decreased effectiveness. He missed almost all of the shortened 2020 season, and all of 2021 with Tommy John surgery, and missed 4-6 starts in 2022 and 2023 with nagging injuries. This spring had a bout of shoulder inflammation and had to miss the first 2-3 weeks of the season. But he's back, and in 3 starts he's pitching well so far: 1-0 with a 2.08 ERA. In 17 1/3 innings, he's allowed 13 hits, 4 runs, all earned, 2 HR, 7 BB and struck out 13.
All Yankees fans know that he's been tough on the Yankees throughout his career, pitching many good/elite games against them in the regular season, and a bunch of them in the post-season as well..
It comes as somewhat of a surprise, then, that in 27 career regular season starts against the Yanks, Verlander is just 10-9 with and ERA of 3.41. In 171 1/3 innings, he's allowed 160 hits, 73 runs, 65 earned, 27 HR, 50 BB and struck out just 157. His WHIP against the Yanks is a rather average 1.226, significantly higher than his career WHIP of 1.118.
In the post-season, Verlander has made 9 starts against the Yanks, and it is here that he has hurt the Yankees multiple times: He's 5-1, with a 2.98 ERA. Of the 9 starts, one of them, he left early with some sort of injury, giving up 1 run in 1 inning, but in the other 8, he has pitched between 6 and 9 innings and allowed 0 or 1 run in 4 of them, and 2 in another one. The Yanks have never really knocked him around: in the other 3 starts, he gave up 3 in 5 1/3, 4 in 7 and 4 in 8 innings. His composite postseason line: 51 1/3 innings, 36 hits, 17 runs, all earned, 6 HR, 14 BB, and struck out 67. That's a K/9 ratio near 12, and a K/BB ratio near 5 to 1. The Yanks' regular season quadruple slash line against Verlander is .244/.302/.415/.717. He started 4 games against the Yanks in the regular season last year, meaning he pitched against them twice for the Mets, and then twice for the Astros. He was 1-2 with a 3.24 ERA. In 25 innings, he allowed 20 hits, 9 runs, all earned 5 HR, 7 BB and struck 19. His WHIP was 1.080.
Repertoire: Verlander's avg FB velocity has diminished only very slowly over his 19 year career, but even that diminishment is not crucial. He's the one who taught Gerrit Cole the value of sitting 2-3 mph below your top FB velo and then humping up for key strikeout pitches in high leverage, or when emptying the tank in his last inning. He has usually "sat" at 94-5 throughout his games against the Yanks, relying on his slider, curve and change to keep hitters from barreling the fastball, then humped up to 97,08, 99, even 100 on the crucial pitchers. He might top out these days at 97-8, but his average FB this season is 94 so far. The pitch mix hasn't changed much in the last five years. This year, in a very small sample, he's throwing the change and curve a little bit more and the slider somewhat less, so far anyway. The 4 pitch righty's mix: FB averaging 94 about half the time. Curve at 77-8 about 23%, slider at 86-7 about 19% and change at 84-5 about 7% He's washed up!  |
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 7, 2024 18:12:32 GMT -5
Change low to Tucker.
Change outside, 2-0Trevino, should've been 2-1 but it's 3-0
FB at the bottom, near the corner inside, 3-1
FB in almost the same spot down and in, belted into the 3rd row of the 2nd deck down the line in right, solo HR by Tucker and it's 1-0 Astros.
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Post by inger on May 7, 2024 18:13:35 GMT -5
Look out, Gil
For Ol’ Kyle Tucker
He’s one slugging
Kind of trucker…
phew! Had to finish that off clean somehow…
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Post by bigjeep on May 7, 2024 18:13:49 GMT -5
Tucker crushes one. 1-0 Trashtros. We should be able to score a bunch of runs today!  |
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 7, 2024 18:14:12 GMT -5
FB misses just outside, 1-0 to Alvarez,
Sinker at the knees topped to Rizzo, throws to Gil, 2 down.
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Post by inger on May 7, 2024 18:15:16 GMT -5
Haha! You said Verlander is going for the Tigers tonight. I hope so, we’re playing the Astros… 😂 I'd like to say it was time travel vapor lock, but I think I just forget to change it from the Skubal game preview. 2-2 on Altuve. Easy to do… but you’re pretty damned accurate so o had to rib you about it… wonder if the Tigers wish they would have kept him. They surely thought he was near the end… |
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Post by bigjeep on May 7, 2024 18:15:48 GMT -5
FB misses just outside, 1-0 to Alvarez, Sinker at the knees topped to Rizzo, throws to Gil, 2 down. Delay? |
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 7, 2024 18:16:01 GMT -5
Bregman...
FB away, fouled off
Change low
Slider outside corner, fouled
Slider outside, he reaches way out for it, hit a soft liner to short, Volpe makes the catch with a jump, inning over.
Bottom 1, 1-0 Astros
18 pitches in the 1st for Gil
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 7, 2024 18:16:26 GMT -5
Rangers-Canes is 0-0 3 minutes in.
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