Breaking bat: Verlander makes statement

Justin Verlander has broken a lot of bats in his career. A hitter breaking his own bat in reaction to a pitch was a new one. A year after Verlander made a statement here with eight dominant innings to start his second-half resurgence, the two pieces of Oswaldo Arcia’s bat — snapped over his knee after he fanned on one of Verlander’s high fastballs — was a decent statement of Verlander’s outing.

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