“They had told us it would be between 6:30 and 7:15,” he said, “but I thought when I didn't get it by a quarter to 7, it wasn't going to happen, so I went up just to rest a minute, kind of get my thoughts together.”
Jim Leyland elected to baseball Hall of Fame, becomes 23rd manager in Cooperstown
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“This guy’s pitched well,” Verlander’s former manager in Detroit, Jim Leyland, said in a telephone interview.
Justin Verlander, seeking first World Series win, opens for Astros
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