After a disappointing loss on Friday night, the Tigers looked to start a new winning streak on Saturday afternoon with their ace on the mound. That they did with a 7-5 win, with home runs flying out of the yard everywhere.

If you look at Tarik Skubal’s page on Baseball Reference, you see a lot of bold, black ink in the stats: leading the American League in WAR (well, at least B-R’s version of it), won-loss percentage (if you like pitcher-wins), ERA, ERA+ and FIP, and WHIP. If there was a statistic called BLORP and it was a good thing, he’d probably be leading the league in that, too. Skubal made his twenty-second start of the year.

Facing the Tigers was Zack Wheeler, the 11-year veteran who started with the Mets and has been with the Phillies since 2020. He’s also leading his leagu

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