NEW YORK -- Two more numbers on Justin Verlander:

-- Zero, as in the number of times the Tigers have won a game he has started in the new Yankee Stadium. It's the only current American League ballpark where he hasn't been credited with a win, and with Friday night's 7-6 loss, the Tigers are now 0-5 in Verlander starts in the new stadium (as opposed to 2-0 in his starts in the former Yankee Stadium).

Verlander went six innings Friday (departing with a 6-5 lead), which brings us to . . .

-- 47, as in the number of consecutive starts in which Verlander has completed at least six innings. Three more, and he'd become the first pitcher since Steve Carlton to go 50 straight starts with six innings or more.

The fantastic play index at baseball-reference.com can only search for streaks since 1918, but tells us that only three pitchers since then have gone six innings 50 or more times in a row (Bob Gibson had two such streaks, and Carlton and Catfish Hunter each had one).

Mark Buehrle got to 49 in a row before his streak ended in 2005.

Most don't come close. After Verlander's 47, the next longest active streak in the majors belongs to the Blue Jays' Henderson Alvarez, who has done it for 12 straight starts.

Even so, Verlander was unimpressed.

"I'm just trying to get the team a win," he said. "Six innings, no runs will do that. Six innings, four runs, not so much."

Verlander's numbers during his streak: a 31-7 record, with a 2.36 ERA, 354 1/3 innings (7.5 per start average), 247 hits, 74 walks, 352 strikeouts.

And, of course, no wins in New York.

Verlander has pitched well enough to win in several of his Yankee Stadium starts. In his first one, in 2009, he lost 2-1 to CC Sabathia. He left an opening day 2011 battle with Sabathia tied 3-3 after six, and last October in the playoffs, he pitched just one inning before the game was suspended because of rain.