Tarik Skubal, Tigers sweep Marlins with pitching-hitting power display
Detroit – Something about that home cooking. Tarik Skubal finally made his 2026 Comerica Park debut after three straight road starts and he did what he typically does in the spacious confines – dominate. Skubal took a no-hitter into the sixth inning, helping the Tigers complete the three-game sweep of the Miami Marlins, 8-2, before a crowd of 26,768 Sunday.
BOX SCORE: Tigers 8, Marlins 2 How good has Skubal been at Comerica? Last season he was 9-1 with an American League-low 2. 13 ERA in 16 starts here.
And since the beginning of 2024, he was 19-2, a best-in-baseball . 905 winning percentage, with a league-low 2. 06 ERA.
All those numbers got better Sunday. It was clear from the outset that he had his Cy Young-worthy stuff. He breezed through the first four innings, facing the minimum 12 hitters.
He erased a leadoff walk to Austin Slater (foreshadowing) in the fourth by getting Trenton-native Jakob Marsee to hit into a 4-6-3 double-play. He was mixing 96- and 97-mph four-seam fastballs and sinkers with well-located changeups and 90-mph sliders. He got 11 whiffs on 44 swings and 18 called strikes.