Tarik Skubal Shines as Tigers Take Game 1 vs. Guardians

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00:00and when you have aces on your staff that's when you're saying boy i don't want to run into that

00:04guy in the playoffs this is what we talked about for the detroit tigers all year like

00:08yes we thought they would win the division actually didn't end up winning division but

00:11they still made it into the playoffs but no major league baseball team on this planet joe is like

00:15you know what's going to be awesome we got to play detroit in a short series because we're

00:18going to see terrick school win game number one and immediately behind the eight ball that's what

00:22you got people scuba was fantastic yesterday seven and two-thirds innings pitched three hurts

00:28one earned run 14 strikeouts and they let him pitch over a hundred pitches now granted the

00:34bottom of the ninth inning was absolutely insane crazy where an error allowed a player to be on

00:38third base with no outs and they didn't score any runs that's baseball's like to say but terrick

00:43scuba he did his part for the tigers yesterday joe yeah absolutely he did and they had to win that

00:52game donnie we had said it all week long i mean listen he has faced this guardians team it feels

00:57like for the entire month of september uh the other two times he faced them he pitched outstanding but

01:04again the bullpen gave way and they ended up losing both of his starts it was clear that hinching

01:11company were not allowing that to happen here in this game that they were going to use him as long as

01:17they could in order to be able to give themselves the best chance they scored that run late to go up to

01:23one and then that was it uh they held on and again both these teams struggling offense they're not good

01:30offenses so i don't know that we're going to get a ton of offense ever with these two teams moving

01:36forward but it's a game detroit had to have and their ace gave it to them donnie