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DETROIT -- Justin Verlander overcame the rust of six months since his last Major League appearance, the tightness of a hamstring strain that never quite went away, and the simple truth of Father Time and 43-year-old pitchers to deliver one last afternoon of Vintage Verlander. But after 5 1/3 innings
Justin Verlander was overcome with emotion when his 7-year-old daughter, Genevieve, ran toward him on the pitchers’ mound after his last Detroit Tigers baseball game. “I had no clue. I was totally blindsided,” Verlander, 43, told reporters after the September, September 26, game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. “It hit…
Tigers manager A. J. Hinch has revealed how Justin Verlander’s emotional farewell with his 7-year-old daughter, Genevieve, was secretly planned for the final game of his career.