Tigers Get Crucial Win Over Rangers as Tarik Skubal Shines

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00:00we talked about the rangers drs they had won the opening two games of their weekend set at home

00:04against the detroit tigers the tigers struggling they had lost six straight entering the sunday

00:09night baseball finale but who do you turn to the ace in the american league all-star starter

00:15in terek skuble the reigning cy young winner on his path to win a second straight

00:19and threw an absolute gem yesterday in arlington six and two thirds a single earned run allowed

00:26only four base knocks 11 strikeouts drs for skuble the tigers avoid the sweep and become the first

00:32team in the bigs this year to get win number 60 because of it a half game advantage for detroit

00:39with the best record in major league baseball in front of both the cubs and now the brewers as well

00:45yeah cruise control for the tigers double digit lead they're 11 games up over the guardians 11 and a half

00:50up over the twins 12 over the royals they're not going to be caught at that point but still you

00:54don't want to give those games away with that big lead that you built up and when you have your

00:57stopper on the mound he's phenomenal last night and you get just enough offense to come through

01:02with a victory you'll take that every which way which then puts the guardians the twins and the

01:07royals on that oh do we start to trade now because we can't make a dent but maybe we're starting to

01:11close the gap because detroit was losing now they're back to winning so there's a lot of things that are up

01:15in the air over this final week and a half until we get to the trading deadline here but good win

01:18for the tigers good pitching performance scoop