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Entering May, Verlander where he needs to be
- Updated: April 28, 2016
DETROIT — In the end, the April showers for Justin Verlander weren’t all that gloomy. Considering the way he started the season, they could’ve been a lot worse.
With 6 1/3 quality innings on Wednesday night in a 9-4 Tigers win over the A’s, Verlander not only outpitched Sonny Gray, who was out after two rough innings, but also outpitched his early-season blues.
Verlander will take a 2-2 record and a 5.46 ERA into May, historically his strongest month of the season. When Verlander has been at his best, May is usually the time of year that form emerges. Injuries that cost him the first two months of last season affected his schedule.
“He has really only had one bad start,” manager Brad Ausmus said of Verlander this season. “He has only had one bad start since the end of last July. And he was good today.”
Verlander, staked to a 4-0 lead by the time he took the mound for the second inning, retired the A’s in order in each of the first two innings, and he didn’t allow a hit until Marcus Semien singled with one out in the third. …
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