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Before today, Justin Verlander had never thrown more than 132 pitches in one game.

Today, he threw 133 pitches.

His 133rd pitch was 100 miles an hour. Nelson Cruz’s fifth postseason home run went the other direction, even harder.

What’s perhaps most astounding is that Cruz was so locked in that he almost pulled the ball foul. But instead his titanic blast — all his blasts seem titanic, lately — glanced off the fair pole for a homer, which knocked Verlander out of the game in the top of the eighth inning, and made the score Tigers 7, Rangers 4.

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/10/13/2487930/tigers-rangers-alcs-game-5