Here you come again, just when I’m about to make it work without you. You waltz right in the door, just like you done before, and wrap my heart ’round your little finger. -Dolly Parton
Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go! Lookie lookie here. Look what the cat done drug in. Look at Justin Verlander. Remember back in ‘06 when Verlander became the first rookie pitcher in the history of the game to win ten games before the end of June? Remember when he threw that no-no back in ‘07? Remember last year? Oh, you don’t? I can’t say as I blame you. Verlander was a pedestrian 11-17 last year after winning thirty-five games in 2006-07. It looks like you can forget about last year anyways. It looks like Justin Verlander is back.
Last Monday, Justin Verlander struck out nine batters in seven scoreless innings against the Yankees. Yowza! Yesterday, he whiffed eleven while allowing only one run against Cleveland. You know what that makes him? No, not a lollygagger.
That makes him the first Tigers’ pitcher in twenty-three years to win back-to-back starts, with at least twenty strikeouts and no more than one run allowed. That makes him the last guy to do such a thing since Jack Morris did such a thing that with two complete-game shutouts and twenty-three strikeouts back in ‘86. It just may make him pitcher of the week. It definitely makes him officially, unequivocally, absolutely, positively, back.
Public Spectacle:
Peace out homies. Six two and Even!
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He's not back! In his first 4 starts he's given up 21 earned runs on 34 hits. I need more than 2 games to believe in this guy again
"He's got the feel back," said Granderson, the Tigers center fielder whose double down the right-field line drove in Sardinha with the winning run. "He had some great stuff."
what's Granderson the pitching coach now? Curtis should concentrate on putting up Fantasy #s I can win with, 2 games, 2 games only vasilli