{"id":72485,"date":"2024-05-06T15:05:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T19:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=72485"},"modified":"2024-05-06T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T19:05:14","slug":"tarik-skubal-tigers-pitcher-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/05\/06\/tarik-skubal-tigers-pitcher-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Breakout Pitcher Makes Franchise History Against the Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A ninth-round draft choice from Seattle University in 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/skubata01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-05-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tarik Skubal<\/a> has helped the Detroit Tigers to a winning record this season (18-16). Skubal&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/29\/tarik-skubal-dark-horse-pitcher\/\" target=\"_self\">development has been a triumph<\/a> for a club trying to build around pitching. In Skubal&#8217;s rookie season, he finished with an ERA starting at 5. The next season, it was at 4, then a 3, then a 2, and now a 1. Skubal brings an edge on the mound for the Tigers. He ranks fourth with a .162 opponents batting average and fifth with a 1.72 ERA. In his recent start against the New York Yankees, Skubal recorded a career-high in strikeouts. However, he became the first Tigers pitcher in over 100 years to record an even more intriguing stat.<\/p>\n<h2>Tarik Skubal Records 12+ K and 0 BB<\/h2>\n<p>Skubal set a career-high with 12 strikeouts and became the first Tiger in this decade to fan 12 without a walk. He&#8217;s the youngest Tigers pitcher to record 12 or more strikeouts in a game since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/scherma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-05-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Scherzer<\/a> had 14 on May 30, 2010. Now, Skubal&#8217;s also the first Tigers pitcher with a start of 12+ strikeouts and zero walks to register a no-decision since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/e\/ericker01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-05-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Erickson<\/a> on May 24, 1918. Erickson pitched a 16-inning complete game but earned a no-decision due to darkness, ending the game in a 2-2 tie.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tarik Skubal is the first Tigers pitchers with a start of 12+ K and 0 BB to register a no-decision since Eric Erickson in May 24, 1918.<\/p>\n<p>Erickson pitched a 16-inning complete game and received a no-decision because the game was called due to darkness and ended in a 2-2 tie.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 nugget chef (@jayhaykid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jayhaykid\/status\/1787493565817380927?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Seven of Skubal&#8217;s Strikeouts Were Produced by His Changeup<\/h3>\n<p>His changeup recorded 12 whiffs on 17 swings from the Yankees. Skubal was in control with that offspeed pitch. He threw 32 changeups (33%), 28 sinkers (29.2%), 21 four-seam fastballs (21.9%), 12 sliders (12.5%), and three curveballs (3.1%). He generated 18 whiffs on 45 swings- a 40 percent whiff rate- with 12 changeups, three sinkers and three fastballs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-72502\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/05\/84a52f02-5bda-4fa8-868d-2f182f580ff6-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/05\/84a52f02-5bda-4fa8-868d-2f182f580ff6-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/05\/84a52f02-5bda-4fa8-868d-2f182f580ff6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/05\/84a52f02-5bda-4fa8-868d-2f182f580ff6-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/05\/84a52f02-5bda-4fa8-868d-2f182f580ff6.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>The Tigers Have Their Ace<\/h3>\n<p>Skubal won American League Pitch of the Month last September. In his final five starts, he went 4-0 with a 0.90 ERA. He nearly matched that with a 4-0 record, 1.72 ERA, 41 strikeouts and six walks over 36 2\/3 innings through six starts in April, he&#8217;s become the unsung ace of the rotation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s one of the best pitchers in the game,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/judgeaa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-05-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Judge<\/a>. &#8220;A guy like that that&#8217;s got plus-velocity, plus-plus stuff, plus feel for all his stuff, can throw any pitch at any time. It&#8217;s just about trying to get a pitcher over the heart of the plate, you can do damage on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Skubal is 4-0 with a 1.90 ERA and an AL-best 0.77 WHIP. His 53 strikeouts are tied for the AL Lead with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/crochga01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-05-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Garrett Crochet<\/a> of the Chicago White Sox. He might have been a dark horse pick for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/02\/29\/cy-young-future-odds-mlb\/\" target=\"_self\">Cy Young Award<\/a> to start the season, but now he&#8217;s become a must-watch pitcher, even if he isn&#8217;t a household name.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: \u00a9 Junfu Han \/ USA TODAY NETWORK<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ninth-round draft choice from Seattle University in 2018, Tarik Skubal has helped the Detroit Tigers to a winning record this season (18-16). Skubal&#8217;s development has been a triumph for a club trying to build around pitching. In Skubal&#8217;s rookie season, he finished with an ERA starting at 5. The next season, it was at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":72506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1071],"tags":[501,3614,79,41,3082],"class_list":["post-72485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tigers","category-mlb","tag-aaron-judge","tag-garrett-crochet","tag-max-scherzer","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-tarik-skubal"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}