{"id":60344,"date":"2025-08-11T01:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60344\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T01:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:14:08","slug":"verlander-not-in-celebratory-mood-after-reaching-3500-strikeout-mark-during-disappointing-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60344\/","title":{"rendered":"Verlander not in celebratory mood after reaching 3,500-strikeout mark during disappointing season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/justin-verlander\/2fe6cb9b-c41e-4ee2-9b22-f8b27bf6c5be\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"2fe6cb9b-c41e-4ee2-9b22-f8b27bf6c5be\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Justin Verlander<\/a> added another memorable chapter to his legendary pitching career Sunday, yet was hardly in the mood to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>Verlander struck out the side in the first inning against the Nationals to become the 10th pitcher in MLB history to reach 3,500 career strikeouts. Not long after, things began to unravel for the three-time Cy Young Award winner as the Giants dropped an 8-0 decision to Washington in front of 40,000 fans at Oracle Park.<\/p>\n<p>Washington scored four times in the second inning and five overall on 11 hits against Verlander in the latest outing in what has been a season-long struggle for the 42-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was happy to get there, happy to have a moment with the fans,\u201d said Verlander, who is 1-9 in 20 starts with the Giants and has a hefty 4.53 ERA. \u201cCool milestone. I really appreciate what it\u2019s taken to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Verlander hasn\u2019t given the Giants much to celebrate this season, though he had been in the best stretch of the season prior to getting roughed up Sunday. In his three previous games prior, Verlander had a 0.60 ERA with 14 strikeouts in 15 innings.<\/p>\n<p>He finished with six strikeouts against the Nationals, but spent most of his postgame media session focused on the entirety of his season rather than the 3,500 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>While acknowledging frustration about how the year has played out, Verlander likened his performances to the 2022 campaign, when he went 18-4 with a 1.75 ERA with the Houston Astros on the way to winning his third Cy Young.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStuff\u2019s great, stuff\u2019s fine,\u201d Verlander said. \u201cI\u2019ve spent a lot of the season looking at comparables. It\u2019s right on par, literally almost up and down the board, with (2022) when I won the Cy Young. So, I think the stuff is just fine. The results have been frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Justin Verlander added another memorable chapter to his legendary pitching career Sunday, yet was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-60344","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\/60344","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=60344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}