Tonight’s game was set to feature two of the premier left-handed starting pitchers in the game in Ranger Suárez for the Phillies and Tarik Skubal for the Tigers. Unfortunately for Philadelphia, Skubal won the matchup and Suárez had one bad inning in a 4-1 loss.
Taste of their own medicine
Kyle Schwarber walked to leadoff the game and that was the only three ball count Skubal had in his seven innings of work. The Phillies didn’t muster many scoring chances off of the Tigers lefty, and when they did it was with two outs. Edmundo Sosa reached on an error with two outs in the second and Whit Merrifield followed with a single, but Cristian Pache struck out to end the Phillies first scoring chance.