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One career ends, another takes flight as McGonigle caps historic rookie year (opens the original)
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DETROIT -- One day after Tigers manager A.J. Hinch set the perfect scene to close out Justin Verlander’s incredible career, he did the same for a player whose career is just getting rolling. Kevin McGonigle took his defensive position at third base for the eighth inning when manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout to make a substitution. McGonigle didn’t realize who the move was for. After playing in 156 of Detroit’s 162 games, including 146 complete games, McGonigle doesn’t expect the hook at
Day for the ages: Verlander's final start, incredible father-daughter moment AND a walk-off HR! (opens the original)
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DETROIT -- Years from now, when folks mention Vintage Verlander, this is what they’ll mean. For days, the Tigers had joked about sending Justin Verlander out like Billy Chapel. Never mind that the latter is a fictional character, an aging, once-great Tigers pitcher portrayed by Kevin Costner in the 1999 movie “For Love of the Game” who throws a perfect game on the penultimate day of the season to conclude his career. Justin Verlander's final MLB start• DYK: JV had stats one can only dream of• 'T
Day for the ages: Verlander's final start, incredible father-daughter moment AND a walk-off HR! (opens the original)
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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 and six strikeouts against the Pirates, he couldn’t resist the sight of his daughter running to the mound to call it a career. Justin Verlander's final MLB start• DYK: JV had stats one can only dream
'There's no script': Verlander says goodbye before final start with Tigers (opens the original)
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DETROIT -- Justin Verlander took the mound for the Tigers in back-to-back years in winner-take-all games on the road against the A’s. He has nine career World Series appearances, including Game 1 for the Tigers in 2006 and 2012, and 226 career postseason innings. Add in two starts in All-Star Games, and he has seen pretty much all there is as a pitcher. Which made the anxiousness that accompanied him to the podium on Friday afternoon a strange sight. "I’m pretty anxious about tomorrow," Verlande
How Tigers will honor Verlander during final weekend in Detroit (opens the original)
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This story was excerpted from Jason Beck’s Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. DETROIT — Justin Verlander has thrown hundreds of bullpen sessions over his career. So when he walked into the Tigers’ bullpen on Tuesday afternoon and finished his final tuneup for one last start on Saturday afternoon against the Pirates, it was nothing different than two decades of between-starts work. “I actually just figured out somethin
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