Verlander's last pitching = Major League Baseball

[New York Current Affairs] Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander (43), who had won a total of 266 games in the US Major League Baseball and had announced his retirement at the end of this season, made his final pitching appearance on the 26th against the Pirates in his home base of Detroit.He started and pitched 5 and 1/3 innings, giving up two runs and striking out six.

He is a great pitcher who won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) once and the Cy Young Award (Best Pitcher Award) three times. In his second pitching of the season, he threw a fastball over 150 km/h, increasing his total strikeouts to 3,560, which ranks eighth on the all-time list.

The game stopped with one out in the sixth inning, and the 7-year-old daughter ran up to her father on the mound and hugged him. He stepped down to the bench as the crowd of over 40,000 people applauded him. It was a special way for him to end his 20-year career, and he said with deep emotion, ``I can't think of a better ending.From the moment I stepped foot in the stadium, the atmosphere at the stadium was incredible.''