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WS6: Nationals at Astros, 8 PM ET

Stephen Strasburg / Justin Verlander

Richard Justice, mlb.com:

There's no one the Astros trust more than Verlander. Forget that his World Series numbers aren't dazzling (0-5, 5.73 ERA in six starts). ...

About the only thing he has never done is record a win in a World Series Game, and given that pitcher wins are partly a function of time and place, that's more a trivia answer than anything else.

That's interesting. ... The "trivia answer" factor didn't enter into the equation when so many sportswriters were gleefully shitting on David Price.