Welcome to the 2025 regular season! The Tigers are on the west coast, getting some late-night games out of the way early, and they were squaring off against the biggest spenders of the offseason: the Los Angeles Dodgers. The pitching matchup saw 2024 Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal up against 2018 and 2023 Cy Young winner Blake Snell.
The Tigers were using a relatively untested outfield, but the game would provide plenty to test their mettle, so let’s see how things went for the first game of the season.
In the first inning things didn’t start out too hot for the Tigers with Andy Ibanez, Gleyber Torres, and Riley Greene going 1-2-3 against Snell.