In the pursuit of a championship, the 39-year-old wonder is the most important player on...
Justin Verlander’s 1.84 ERA is the lowest of his career, and his 0.86 WHIP is second only to his 0.80 mark in 2019, when he won his second Cy Young Award.As of 5 p.m. Monday, Justin Verlander was still on the Astros’ active roster and continued to be the leading candidate to win the Cy Young award in the American League this season.Worry, of course, comes and goes, since you care so much about your Major League Baseball team.
The realization, again, that a 17-year veteran with a 16-3 record, 1.84 ERA and 0.86 WHIP this season is actually human and vulnerable to the same ailments that drag down normal 39-year-olds?That MLB’s grueling and unforgiving 162-game is the great divider.Smith: Time for Davis Mills, Texans' offense to show something
Dusty Baker’s club survived Jeremy Peña’s midseason thumb injury just fine. While Houston dealt with another day of late-summer rain Monday, the Astros led the New York Yankees by 3½ games in the AL, and Seattle was battling for a wild-card spot, not first place in the West. For the Astros to win it all for the second time in franchise history, Verlander must be superhuman until the final game of this year’s World Series is played.
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