{"id":192,"date":"2019-03-28T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/?p=192"},"modified":"2019-03-25T11:31:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T15:31:27","slug":"march-28-justin-verlander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/2019\/03\/28\/march-28-justin-verlander\/","title":{"rendered":"March 28 Justin Verlander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Justin Brooks Verlander was born on February 20, 1983. He is an<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> American<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> professional baseball<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> pitcher<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Houston Astros<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Major League Baseball<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He previously played for the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Detroit Tigers<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for 13 seasons, with whom he made his major league debut on July 4, 2005. From<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Manakin-Sabot, Virginia<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Verlander attended<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Old Dominion University<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0and played college baseball for the Monarchs. He broke the Monarchs&#8217; and<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Colonial Athletic Association<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;s career records for strikeouts. At the 2003 Pan American Games, Verlander helped lead the United States national team to a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> silver medal<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The Tigers selected him in the first round and as the second overall pick of the 2004 first-year player draft. As a former ace in the Tigers&#8217; starting rotation, he is regarded as a key figure in four consecutive<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> American League Central<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> division championships from 2011\u22122014, and in the Astros&#8217; first World Series championship in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-193 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/verlander-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Verlander about the pitch a baseball; he has his hands in his glove with the ball, his leg is raised and he is looking in the distance\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/verlander-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/verlander-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/verlander-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/verlander.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Brooks Verlander was born on February 20, 1983. He is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball. He previously played for the Detroit Tigers for 13 seasons, with whom he made his major &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/2019\/03\/28\/march-28-justin-verlander\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}