Despite Houston's 2-0 loss in Game 1, Verlander held baseball’s best-remaining offense to its worst offensive night.
HOUSTON — There were a few things for the to worry about following the team’s 2-0 loss to in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series on Sunday night. wasn’t one of them. If Houston gets this version of Verlander for the rest of October, it will be a serious boon, as the 40-year-old — who finally vanquished his playoff demons in winning the World Series last year — impressively held baseball’s best-remaining offense to its worst offensive night.
Of the Rangers’ top four batters, only mustered a hit off Verlander, a first-inning single. Both of Texas’ runs came from the bottom-third of their lineup: a second-inning RBI single from and Leody Taveras’ fifth-inning homer. “They’ve been a prodigious offense all season long. You know your work is cut out for you.
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