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'Past Glory and Glimmers of the Future:' Verlander Throws 1-Hitter in 8 Innings

August 10, 2017, 7:47 AM

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Justin Verlander (File photo)

This has been another pathetic season for the Tigers, mostly. It actually started with hope. Now Detroit is nine games out of first in a pretty mediocre Central Division.

But there are these moments that make it still worth watching the team play.

Justin Verlander pitched Wednesday night at Comerica Park like the great Verlander of young, giving up one hit in eight innings. The Tigers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-0.

Bob Wojnowski describes it in The Detroit News:

In the fading light of a rocky season, this is what you get — glimpses of past glory and glimmers of the future, all shrouded in uncertainty.

And in case you’d forgotten, this is what you still can get from Justin Verlander. In a reprisal of dominant old times, the Tigers’ longtime ace did the no-no flirt again, without the same stir and stakes, but tantalizing nevertheless.

Verlander didn’t surrender a hit until two out in the sixth, when the Pirates’ Josh Bell bounced a hard grounder past diving third baseman Nicholas Castellanos. Could Castellanos have made the play? It would’ve taken a terrific effort, so it clearly was a hit, not an error. But it compounded the mixed emotions of the gem by Verlander, who threw eight one-hit innings in the Tigers’ 10-0 victory. 


Read more:  The Detroit News


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