DETROIT -- Tarik Skubal’s scoreless streak is over, but his role as the Tigers’ streak-stopper only strengthened Friday. With 7 2/3 innings of one-run ball, the reigning American League Cy Young winner took Spencer Torkelson’s go-ahead home run and made it stand in a 3-1 win over the Cubs on Friday night before a sellout crowd at Comerica Park.

Skubal’s third consecutive start of seven-plus innings decided a pitching duel with Cubs counterpart Ben Brown, who traded zeros with him through the first four innings. Skubal wasn’t quite as overpowering as in his last couple starts, but he received help early and late from his defense, including a Riley Greene catch at the left-field fence on a Pete Crow-Armstrong fly ball and strong throws across the infield from shortstop Javier Báez and thi

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