Matthew TushmanJustin Verlander (#35) is back in Detroit for a final season! Love this. Sure, at 43 he’s not going to have a record season, but hoping he has some good innings and brings his extraordinary leadership to the team. As a decades-long fan, I’m excited to see him back in a Tigers uniform.
MittenGirlPeach 🧡 ⚾️ 🎾
Steve's PlaceJustin Verlander wound up giving up 5 runs altogether. I was looking at his pitches. Their speeds were fine. He placed an abundance of them inside of the strike zone. I don't think he meant to do that, exactly.
While I have you here, velocity is speed + direction. It is a vector, not a scalar. When baseball people speak of a pitcher's velocity, they typically mean the scalar "speed of the pitch."
His general velocity sucked, not because he couldn't hurl a large marble fast enough, but because he wasn't placing the marble around the strike zone very well, and he got hit today, big-time.
He's a #5 starting pitcher now, with a mid-to-high-4's ERA. Aka, his good stuff is inconsistent.
sgt1372Just a personal reflection on the amazing start to the Giant's season this year at 15-8 who nonetheless are currently 1 game behind the #Padres & #Dodgers who are tied for 1st at 16-7.🤷♂️
Thing is, the Giants could be tied with them at 16-7 but for #Walker's rare meltdown & blown save that cost the Giants & #Verlander the win vs the #Angels the other day 🤦♂️
And the Giants could actually be ahead at 17-6 in 1st place but for the failure of the Giants hitters to score 3 runs to back up #LoganWebb's otherwise great start giving up only 4 hits & 2 runs in 6 innings with 12ks & no walks vs the Angels a couple of days before that. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Nonetheless, the Giants are playing above expectations with one of the lowest team batting averages in the league (22nd out of 30) at only .226 but with the 6th best team ERA in the league at 3.46 .👏👏👏
Go Giants!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Giants have left too many runners in scoring position & fail again to score a runner from 2nd in the top of the 5th &, of course, #Verlander gives up a solo HR in the bottom of the 5th to allow the #Angels to tie the game at 1 going into the top of the 6th with the Giants coming up to bat again. 🙄
Oh well . . . this is Verlander's best start so far this season but he can't get the win unless the Giants score more runs & they're running out of innings. 😐
Let's go Giants!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
MittenGirlPeach 🧡 🎾 ⚾️Snort. JV has some succinct words for Cora. Also, the hashtag for the Red Sox: Double Snort. (I had to look it up and was rather amused by it). https://youtu.be/I0FMF9YSiHo #DirtyWater #Verlander #Cora #RedSox
Verlander Tells Alex Cora to “F Off”
Kat O’BrienI hope Justin #Verlander keeps pitching at a high level forever as it makes me feel younger. I was a baseball reporter in my 20s, and he was already a top pitcher when I left it 14 years ago.
https://www.mlb.com/amp/news/justin-verlander-traded-to-astros.html
Verlander back to Houston as Mets trade ace (source)
HOUSTON -- Justin Verlander, who won two American League Cy Young Awards, two World Series titles and threw his third career no-hitter while wearing an Astros uniform from 2017-22, is returning to Minute Maid Park less than a year after he left. The Astros swung a blockbuster deal prior to
Tony Crenshaw's LatteOh good #Verlander is going to #Astros, where he belongs. All the reports of #Dodgers pursuing him had me worried. #Whew #DodgedThatBullet #MLB #baseball #TradeDeadline
MLB network is reporting Verlander back to the Astros. Two minor leaguers in return to the Mets. #MLBTradeDeadline #Verlander #Baseball #mlb #Astros
