Nearly eight years ago, the Pittsburgh Pirates began a three-game series on the road against the Detroit Tigers with a 5-4 win in 14 innings. Aside from being the longest game ever played at Comerica Park, at 5 hours 30 minutes, that extra-inning slog is also the only game to feature a starting pitching matchup between Gerrit Cole and Justin Verlander.
That is set to change Wednesday, when two of the most dominant pitchers of the last decade take the mound opposite one another, as Cole’s Yankees visit Verlander’s Mets for the second of two Subway Series games at Citi Field, which began with a 7-6 Yankees win on Tuesday.