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- Updated: September 7, 2016
CHICAGO — It will mean more to Justin Verlander in the offseason, but right now, surpassing 200 strikeouts for the sixth time is just another number to the Tigers’ veteran ace.
Despite a resurgent season in which he’s reasserted himself among baseball’s elite starters, the hard-throwing veteran is concerned with only the number of wins Detroit gets in its chase to qualify for the postseason.
All the other stuff, such as eclipsing the 200-strikeout mark with 11 strikeouts in his seven-inning outing Monday, is just background noise. It was the first time he’s done it since 2013, but wasn’t something he was preoccupied with achieving.
“That’s stuff that I look at at the end of the year,” said Verlander, who took a no-decision against the White Sox in Monday’s 5-3 …
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