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Real or not? Justin Verlander off to one of best starts in last decade

Sometimes you just have to sit back, enjoy the performance and admire the gift that is Justin Verlander's right arm. He's 35 years old, on the wrong end of the timeline for most professional baseball players, and yet here he is, 6-2 with a 1.08 ERA through 11 starts, spinning not just dominant results, but some of the best we've ever seen at the start of a season.

Actually, Wednesday's performance in a 4-1 win over the Giants was somewhat pedestrian, if you can call nine strikeouts and one run over six innings "pedestrian.