About the fourth inning, that buzz started circulating through Comerica, and through the second floor aseball bunker. No hits for the Indians; Tribe batsmen helpless, doing as well as the guy trying to eat soup with a fork.
I rolled a tape, like I did in the fourth inning on May 7.
JV seemed to be getting stronger as the game progressed, as he did in that Jays no-hitter. Swingo-misso, poppit-uppo, a zero under H for the opposition on the screboard.
Orlando Cabrera singled with one out in the eighth, and that was that. Carlos Santana's ninth inning single was the only other Tribe hit. JV went the distance, striking out ten as the Tigers won 4-0 to move one game ahead of the scuffling Indians in the AL Central standings.
Verlander games have become events. As Denny McLain starts were in his 31 win season of 1968, the year we'd read in the paper that Bob Gibson was starting that night, and listen through fading and static to hear if he'd shut them out again.
You expect him to take a no-hitter late into the game. With a couple breaks and some admittedly out of this world magic, he'd have three this season. Tonight, the Jays game, and that start after that in which he pitched six hitless innings.
This game really whipped the llama's ass. So effectively that Ryan Strikeout striking out in the third with the bases loadad is barely worth mentioning,
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