{"id":3031,"date":"2013-06-08T10:06:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T14:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2013-06-08T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T18:36:09","slug":"verlander-tries-to-avoid-handshake-of-doom-in-tigers-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/06\/08\/verlander-tries-to-avoid-handshake-of-doom-in-tigers-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Verlander tries to avoid &#8216;Handshake of Doom&#8217; in Tigers win"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3032\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3032\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3032\" alt=\"justinverlander\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/justinverlander.jpg\" width=\"676\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/justinverlander.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/justinverlander-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Justin Verlander pitched a quick seventh and hoped to return for the eighth inning in Friday nights win over the Indians. To return for another frame the Tigers starter would need to avoid a move so synonymous with leaving the game that it has earned the name the &#8216;Handshake of Doom.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/telly.com\/embed.php?guid=SBNSC1&#038;autoplay=0\" title=\"Telly video player \" class=\"twitvid-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When Tigers manager Jim Leyland is ready to pull a starter after an inning he waits at the bottom of the dugout steps and gives a handshake to the pitcher. The move has earned the nickname the handshake of doom.<\/p>\n<p>After the seventh inning Verlander attempted to avoid Leyland by entering the dugout though an alternate entrance. Leyland was ready for him and met him with a handshake.<\/p>\n<p>Verlander talked to reporters about the move after the game. (view the 0:44 second mark)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oyloUjIIcrM\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He always stands there right at the bottom of the stairs, so I tried to circumvent the system and not get the customary handshake,&#8221; Verlander said. &#8220;I wanted to stay in the game, so I tried to go the other way and sneak around him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leyland was not in a laughing mood about Verlander&#8217;s actions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t think that was comical at all,&#8221; Leyland said after the game. &#8220;You might think that was comical, but I don\u2019t think that was comical at all. I don&#8217;t talk about silly stuff. Let&#8217;s talk about baseball.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Verlander pitched a quick seventh and hoped to return for the eighth inning in Friday nights win over the Indians. To return for another frame the Tigers starter would need to avoid a move so synonymous with leaving the game that it has earned the name the &#8216;Handshake of Doom.&#8217; When Tigers manager Jim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[66,65,211],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-jim-leyland","tag-justin-verlander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}