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On June 18, 2006, Tigers lefty Kenny Rogers beat the Cubs at Wrigley Field for win No. 200 in a sparkling career that wouldn’t end until he’d pocketed 219 of them.
After that game, veteran reliever Todd Jones posed a question to 23-year-old hotshot Justin Verlander, who’d won the previous day in his Wrigley debut and was on his way, it turned out, to a rookie of the year award and a Game 7 start in that season’s World Series.