no gummies…but i may blaze up a bit.
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Skubal is a bit of an unusual guy. I think he’s hard to predict. But Tigers have the best farm system in MLB and I think they might pull out the big bucks for him. As I posted above, lots of empty seats just a few seasons ago. Tigers need him for attendance way more than the other teams do.
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Isn’t he from the west coast. I assume the question is does he want to stay in Detroit.
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National media mocks everone to Yankees Dodgers Warriots Lakers Cowboys.
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That is the one thing that might motivate Illitch to spend the money. But if they do, IMO they have to do it before 2026 spring training starts. If they don’t, I think he’s gone.
With Houston Astros thrown in there.
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Baseball rarity
It looks like a typo on the scoring log. In the fifth inning Saturday, the Rangers’ Kyle Higashioka was forced out at third base on a 5-1 putout. Huh? A force out at third from the third baseman to the pitcher?
“Stick around long enough, you will see something you’ve never seen before,” Hinch said.
With runners at first and second and no outs, left-handed hitting Josh Smith sliced a slider off the end of his bat at third baseman Colt Keith.
The ball handcuffed Keith.
“That ball was moving so crazy,” Keith said. “He cued it. The pitch was down and in so I was like cross-eyed. That ball should be on the other side because the pitch was down and in and then it was coming at me like a knuckleball.”
Keith hustled the ball down in foul territory and pitcher Keider Montero alertly covered third base and they were able to complete the 5-1 force.
“Thankfully Keider was heads up and Colt didn’t quit on the play,” Hinch said. “Both of those things needed to happen. You could see the disappointment for Colt when he didn’t catch it, but he didn’t give up. And that’s what the pitcher is supposed to do but you just never see it there.”
The last time the Tigers recorded a 5-1 putout was on Aug. 15, 2017, also in Texas. Nick Castellanos was the third baseman, but he was shifted to the right side of the infield between second baseman Ian Kinsler and shortstop Jose Iglesias.
Castellanos fielded the ball going to his left and threw to Justin Verlander covering first to complete the out.
But a 5-1 putout at third base? No known record of that in the Tigers’ books.
The Tigers are now 15-5 when he starts, and he lowered his ERA to 2.19. In 20 starts, he’s amassed 164 strikeouts and 16 walks. Since 1901, only two pitchers have amassed those numbers in 20 games — Clayton Kershaw and Skubal.
The outing was historic for two other statistical reasons:
It was his seventh career game with at least 10 strikeouts and no runs or walks, one-upping Justin Verlander for the franchise record.
And, it was his fifth 10-strikeout, no-run, no-walk game this season – tying Corbin Burnes (2021), Gerrit Cole (2021) and Clayton Kershaw (2015) for most in a season.
“What matters is winning ballgames,” he said. “That’s the most important thing in this game. We got to 60 wins first, right? That matters more than anything I’m doing individually.”
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