{"id":140900,"date":"2025-09-13T11:53:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T11:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140900\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T11:53:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T11:53:03","slug":"giants-justin-verlander-joins-1909-cy-young-on-historic-mlb-pitching-record-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140900\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants\u2019 Justin Verlander joins 1909 Cy Young on historic MLB pitching record list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t write off the old guys.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the message that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Giants<\/a> pitcher Justin Verlander surely was feeling on Friday night at the end of another recent gem for the 42-year old.<\/p>\n<p>Verlander went 7.0 innings on Friday night, allowing just a single earned run.<\/p>\n<p>In the process, he joined a very exclusive MLB club.<\/p>\n<p>Verlander is one of seven pitchers age-42 or older to allowed one or zero runs in a three-start span, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SlangsOnSports\/status\/1966722733682643034\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to MLB Network&#8217;s Sarah Langs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The others:<\/p>\n<p>2022 Rich Hill2015 Bartolo Colon2008 Randy Johnson2004 and 2005 Roger Clemens1982 and 1984 Phil Niekro1963 Warren Spahn1909 Cy Young<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\/news\/giants-patrick-bailey-first-mlb-walk-history-grand-slam-inside-park-home-run\/6f18aba0991c663ca5a8bd17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Giants&#8217; Patrick Bailey makes grand slam, inside-the-park HR history<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The doubling up by Clemens and Niekro makes this the 10th such span overall in baseball history.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an amazing turnaround for Verlander, who was viewed as a guy earlier in the season who may have had to be dropped from the rotation.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he&#8217;s shining bright at a key time. The Giants have a legitimate chance to catch the Mets for the final wild card spot in the National League.<\/p>\n<p>If Verlander keeps pitching like this, they just might do it.<\/p>\n<p>MORE MLB NEWS:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t write off the old guys. That&#8217;s the message that San Francisco Giants pitcher Justin Verlander surely was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-140900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}