{"id":828775,"date":"2026-08-28T15:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828775\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:16:17","slug":"dodgers-notes-tarik-skubal-on-facing-tigers-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828775\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers notes: Tarik Skubal on facing Tigers for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On August 18, 2020, 23-year-old left-hander Tarik Skubal made his major league debut for a Detroit Tigers team that went on to miss the postseason for a sixth consecutive season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Over the next six years, Skubal helped Detroit reach the postseason over two consecutive seasons, with highlights being his performance in Game 5 of last year\u2019s ALDS and lowlights like the grand slam he allowed to Lane Thomas in the 2024 ALDS. He also made his name officially known by winning two consecutive AL Cy Young awards, winning the pitching triple crown in 2024\u2014 the first Tiger to do so since Justin Verlander in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Skubal made his final start as a Tiger on July 29, and the baseball world was stunned to see him shipped off to Los Angeles. Now, for the first time as a visiting player, he returns to the city he called home for parts of seven seasons. When asked by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AM570LASports\/status\/2093111740041199833?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">David Vassegh of AM 570<\/a> about the emotions of returning to Comerica Park, Skubal has a rather stoic mindset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThe game of baseball is going to stay the game of baseball. That\u2019s something I pride myself on, treating every game as the same. I\u2019m very familiar with the stadium and all the guys across the way, and I look forward to seeing all those guys too. Those guys are my really good friends. We\u2019re going to have relationships beyond baseball, so I look forward to getting back there and pitching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Yoshinobu Yamamoto was on the losing end of a fierce pitcher\u2019s duel against Chris Sale and the Atlanta Braves on Thursday, where a first-pitch leadoff home run from Drake Baldwin was the only time any side could scratch across a run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Yamamoto spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SportsNetLA\/status\/2093167470983237882?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kirsten Watson of SportsNet LA<\/a> following the Dodgers\u2019 1-0 loss about his ability to navigate Atlanta\u2019s lineup following the Baldwin home run while also finding a way to pitch deep into the game, with a final line of 6 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIt\u2019s a great lineup, I knew that. I just had to stay sharp the whole game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Getting swept against a team that is also a division leader stings, but there\u2019s still a chance to go out win games over the weekend. That\u2019s the mindset that Dave Roberts has following Thursday\u2019s defeat, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\/story\/2026-08-27\/dodgers-lose-to-braves-chris-sale-swept\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maddie Lee of the Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI wish we\u2019d played better,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cI wish we\u2019d have won the game. I wish we\u2019d won the series. It didn\u2019t happen. But right now, there\u2019s nothing we can do but just go out there and keep trying to get better and win a baseball game [Friday].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On August 18, 2020, 23-year-old left-hander Tarik Skubal made his major league debut for a Detroit Tigers team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[169436,160519,363,99],"class_list":["post-828775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-dodgers-links","tag-dodgers-news-notes","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}