Justin Verlander officially exited Major League Baseball in style on Saturday afternoon.
The legendary three-time Cy Young winner Verlander pitched the final game of his MLB career on Saturday against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Verlander threw 5.1 innings, allowing two earned runs and striking out six batters in front of his home crowd at Comerica Park in Detroit, Mich. The Tigers then went on to win the game by a final score of 4-3 on a dramatic walkoff homer by Eduardo Valencia.
After Verlander’s final batter in the sixth inning, he got a great surprise. As Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout, Verlander’s 8-year-old daughter Genevieve also ran out to greet him.
Verlander then walked off the mound hand-in-hand with his daughter in an absolutely poetic scene to cap off his illustrious big-league career. Here is the awesome video.