Justin Verlander may not have blinked if you placed Ruth, Gehrig and Lazzeri from the 1927 Murderers’ Row 60 feet, 6 inches from him.
This is not a man the Yankees want to see again in October.
It is not a man anyone wants to see on Memorial Day either.
Or on any day.
Yankees fans booed their new Yankee killer even louder than they had booed Rudy Giuliani when Verlander was yanked following his 113th pitch with two outs in the seventh.
Verlander tipped his cap.
“I didn’t get as many boos like when they announced my name pregame as I thought,” Verlander said.