{"id":910597,"date":"2026-09-26T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/910597\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:00:12","slug":"justin-verlander-honored-by-tigers-with-custom-shirts-in-photos-ahead-of-final-start-of-mlb-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/910597\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Verlander Honored by Tigers With Custom Shirts in Photos Ahead of Final Start of MLB Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The Detroit Tigers dressed for the occasion of Justin Verlander&#8217;s final MLB start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Tigers players arrived at Comerica Park wearing custom t-shirts printed with photos of Verlander before the pitcher closed out his career with a Saturday start against the Pittsburgh Pirates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The Tigers also shared a tribute video in Verlander&#8217;s honor ahead of the 21-year MLB veteran&#8217;s final appearance on the mound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Verlander, who began his MLB career with the Tigers in 2005, returned to Detroit the injured list and <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JustinVerlander\/status\/2074900899768521215\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">announced<\/a> his intention to retire in July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The three-time Cy Young Award winner and two-time World Series champion was honored Friday with a pregame <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/picture-gallery\/sports\/mlb\/tigers\/2026\/09\/25\/justin-verlander-honored-by-tigers-during-retirement-ceremony\/91945367007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">retirement ceremony<\/a> at Comerica Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Tigers dressed for the occasion of Justin Verlander&#8217;s final MLB start. Tigers players arrived at Comerica&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-910597","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\/910597","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=910597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}