Justin Verlander bobbles with his bobblehead.Â
Justin Verlander congratulates his catcher Alex Avila, who hit a home run on the first pitch he saw after the birth of his first child, a daughter.
April 9, 2013, Detroit Tigers vs Toronto Blue Jays. Tigers win 7-3.
During Tiger Fest, Justin Verlander was asked by a female fan,
“You’ve won the Cy Young and the MVP… but are we ever going to see you get a hit?”
Benoit clearly found that to be amusing. Verlander laughs and says, “If that was a guy that asked that question, I’d say ‘come up here, you’ll see me hit you’.”
After some laughter, Verlander answers, “This is my year! I’ve said that for seven years, ‘this is my year, this is it!’”
Justin Verlander congratulates his catcher Alex Avila on his fifth inning solo home run. Detroit Tigers win 3-1 over the Oakland Athletics in Game 1 of the ALDS, October 6th, 2012.
Justin Verlander hits a home run over the Green Monster at Fenway Park during batting practice.
Verlander is 0-20 in his career with 13 strikeouts.
Justin Verlander celebrates his complete game, 3-2 win over the Kansas City Royals.
Toronto broadcast cut off the end, but here’s Cabrera trying like hell to stop Verlander from giving Avila a high-five in the dugout.
Avila broke up an inning-ending double play with a hard slide into second, allowing a run to score in the bottom of the 8th against the Blue Jays on June 27th, 2011. Detroit wins, 4-2.
Justin Verlander was on the Conan O’Brien show!
Here’s Justin Verlander drilling homeplate umpire Alan Porter in the balls. And then laughing about it on the mound.
Alex Avila auto-reblog.
