Paul Goldschmidt. Pedro Severino. Jorge Soler. And Jorge Polanco.

One of the strangest murderer’s rows in baseball that have the distinct honor of hitting two home runs off Detroit Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal in the same game.

Those first three names did so in a one-month window in 2021, Skubal’s first full season in the majors.

Polanco did so Sunday night for the Seattle Mariners in a crucial Game 2 of the ALDS that led to the Mariners tying up the series with a 3-2 win.

Seattle is now 3-0 in games this season where Skubal starts, something no other team in the league can claim. Every team that’s faced him multiple times has lost at least one of the games he started.

Even though Skubal pitched seven innings with nine strikeouts and his only runs were on the pair of solo homers to P

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