ST. LOUIS -- Justin Verlander took another impressive step on his likely path to the Hall of Fame on Saturday night at Busch Stadium, recording his 3,535th career strikeout to pass Gaylord Perry and move into eighth place on the all-time list.

The milestone strikeout -- against Nolan Gorman for the second out of the sixth inning -- was Verlander’s 119th in his first season as a Giant. And in passing Perry, he found himself just 39 behind the seventh-place hurler on the list, longtime Los Angeles Dodger and Hall of Famer Don Sutton.

Gorman’s third strikeout of the night came looking at a 94 mph four-seam fastball down in the zone. He also went down swinging in the first and fourth, José Fermin struck out swinging in the third, and Iván Herrera struck out looking in the sixth immediately

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