“There’s nothing embarrassing about getting shut out by a guy like that, with that kind of stuff,” Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. “He’s got very good stuff.”

Embarrassing or not, Saturday’s 5-0 Tigers loss to the Mariners still furthers Detroit’s lead in times shut out. No other team has been shut out more than six times. Verlander has been the losing pitcher for three of them.

“It kind of feels like everything that can go wrong is going wrong,” Verlander said.

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