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14 hours ago
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Fans upset as Tarik Skubal vs. Paul Skenes duel gets shut down
The post Fans upset as Tarik Skubal vs. Paul Skenes duel gets shut down appeared first on ClutchPoints. Rain pummeled the Midwest on Wednesday and cancelled numerous Major League Baseball games in the region. One of them was set to go down in Detroit as Tarik Skubal was going to lead the Detroit Tigers against the Pittsburgh Pirates. A postponed game is always a bummer, but that set up a double header on Thursday which opened the door for a potential Skubal vs. Paul Skenes showdown. The two Cy Young favorites are pitching on the same day, but not in the same game. Advertisement Paul Skenes was slated to start Game 3 of the series for the Pirates, so the original schedule had him missing a duel with Tarik Skubal by one day. When Wednesday's game got postponed, fans started clamoring about the possibility of the two best pitchers in the game going up against each other. It would've been incredible to see, but the teams aren't changing the pitching matchup. Skubal will start Game 1 for the Tigers, and Skenes will start Game 2 for the Pirates. Fans got their hopes up after Wednesday's game got rained out as there was hope for an incredible pitching matchup. A lot of people thought that the teams were going to give the people what they wanted. Unfortunately, that isn't the case, and now fans are upset about what could've been. The game of baseball is always looking for ways to grow the sport, and this would've been a golden opportunity for exposure. Who wouldn't want to watch a Skubal vs. Skenes showdown? 'crazy how big of a miss this is for the sport,' one fan posted. Advertisement We still to get see both players pitch on the same day, but it would be a lot more fun if it was in the same game. 'What an unfun decision,' another fan said. At the end of the day, this is in the best interest of both of these teams. Each team has a big advantage when one of these pitchers is on the mound, and it's hard for either of them to lose those games. Taking the better matchup means a probable victory. 'The fans need to understand it's in neither teams best interest to line their starts up,' another fan said. 'They'd rather take the massive advantage in one game and get that win.' The Tigers are one of the best teams in baseball, and the Pirates are one of the worst. With Skubal on the mound going up against someone other than Skenes, Detroit will be a big favorite. Advertisement 'For people crying, this is good… I want Skub by himself… We need to win each of his starts and going against Skenes would possibly hurt that… get over it,' a fan wrote. Tarik Skubal will take the mound in Game 1 of the double header at 1:10 ET from Comerica Park in Detroit. Game 2 of the double header will get underway at 5:40 PM, and Paul Skenes will be on the mound for the Pirates. Related: Tigers' Javy Báez doubles down with 2 home runs against the Pirates Related: 3 Detroit Tigers who must make 2025 All-Star Team
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15 hours ago
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Phillies' Ranger Suárez Joins Tigers' Tarik Skubal as Only Pitchers With Four Straight Seven-Inning Outings in 2025
Phillies' Ranger Suárez Joins Tigers' Tarik Skubal as Only Pitchers With Four Straight Seven-Inning Outings in 2025 originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Philadelphia Phillies are blessed with incredible starting pitching. But, recently, no one has been more impressive than Ranger Suárez in his contract year. He's been dominant on the mound this year, and he's one of only two pitchers to achieve an incredible feat this season. Advertisement According to an article from Matt Gelb of The Athletic, Suárez joins Detroit Tigers 2024 Cy-Young award winner Tarik Skubal as the only pitchers in 2025 to have four straight starts that went at least seven innings. With Skubal the front-runner to win the Cy Young in the AL in 2025, Suárez joining him is an indication of how great he's been this season. Suárez, in his last four starts that went at least seven innings each, has a 1.26 ERA and 26 strikeouts. While his seven-inning minimum stretch ends at four games, he's been incredible after his first start of the year. Suárez, in his last nine starts, has a 1.17 ERA, 53 strikeouts, and a 6-2 record. He's also pitched 61.1 innings and has a quality start in every outing. Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Ranger Suarez (55) looks on before the game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Citizens Bank Ross-Imagn Images On the year, even with his seven-earned run blowup start to begin his season, Suárez has a 2.08 ERA and 59 strikeouts. Suárez, in his eighth season with the Phillies, is once again making the case to be an All-Star. Advertisement Before his latest masterpiece, where he went 7.2 innings, giving up one run, but getting dealt the loss due to his offense's struggles, Suárez had 2.4 WAR. That's on pace to smash his 2024 total when he was named an All-Star. Suárez has been the most impressive Phillies pitcher this season, which is a remarkable feat considering Zack Wheeler has an incredible 2.61 ERA and 118 strikeouts in 15 starts. Joining Skubal, who's having one of the best pitching seasons in modern baseball history, is a great feat for Suárez. Going at least seven innings is difficult, and Suárez has done so four times in a row, and has given up just four earned runs total. Related: Phillies' Dave Dombrowski Reveals Philadelphia's Trade Deadline Plans Related: Phillies' Jose Alvarado Expected to Make Impact After 80-Game PED Suspension This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 25, 2025, where it first appeared.
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2 days ago
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Dodgers right-hander Clayton Kershaw strikes out 5, moves closer to 3,000 career strikeouts
DENVER — Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw inched closer to 3,000 career strikeouts on Thursday, fanning five in six innings against the Colorado Rockies. Kershaw has 2,997 strikeouts in his 18-year career, three short of becoming the 20th major leaguer to reach the milestone. The 37-year-old would be the third active pitcher to reach the mark behind Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer. Verlander, in his 20th season, has 3,468 strikeouts. Scherzer has 3,412 in 18 seasons. Kershaw struck out three in the first two innings Thursday and got his fourth for the final out of the fifth. He struck out Tyler Freeman for the second out of the sixth inning and left the game after retiring the next batter. He threw 69 pitches, 41 for strikes. He recorded two strikeouts on his 73 mph curve and got three more on sliders against a Rockies' lineup that included all right-handed batters. Kershaw's next scheduled start is expected to come at Dodger Stadium on July 2 against the Chicago White Sox. The three-time NL Cy Young Award winner and 10-time All-Star received plenty of crowd support in Colorado, getting a standing ovation from some in the Coors Field crowd when he left the mound after the sixth inning. Kershaw had made eight starts this season after being activated from the injured list May 17 following offseason left knee and foot surgeries. Kershaw left with a 3-1 lead and was in line for his fourth straight victory. His ERA dropped to a season-low 3.03. ___ AP MLB:
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2 days ago
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Dodgers right-hander Clayton Kershaw strikes out 5, moves closer to 3,000 career strikeouts
DENVER (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw inched closer to 3,000 career strikeouts on Thursday, fanning five in six innings against the Colorado Rockies. Kershaw has 2,997 strikeouts in his 18-year career, three short of becoming the 20th major leaguer to reach the milestone. The 37-year-old would be the third active pitcher to reach the mark behind Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer. Verlander, in his 20th season, has 3,468 strikeouts. Scherzer has 3,412 in 18 seasons. Kershaw struck out three in the first two innings Thursday and got his fourth for the final out of the fifth. He struck out Tyler Freeman for the second out of the sixth inning and left the game after retiring the next batter. He threw 69 pitches, 41 for strikes. He recorded two strikeouts on his 73 mph curve and got three more on sliders against a Rockies' lineup that included all right-handed batters. Kershaw's next scheduled start is expected to come at Dodger Stadium on July 2 against the Chicago White Sox. The three-time NL Cy Young Award winner and 10-time All-Star received plenty of crowd support in Colorado, getting a standing ovation from some in the Coors Field crowd when he left the mound after the sixth inning. Kershaw had made eight starts this season after being activated from the injured list May 17 following offseason left knee and foot surgeries. Kershaw left with a 3-1 lead and was in line for his fourth straight victory. His ERA dropped to a season-low 3.03. ___ AP MLB:
New York Times
2 days ago
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- New York Times
The All-IL team: As more MLB stars go down, building an All-Star team of injured players
What a week it's been — and not in a good way. Atlanta Braves ace Chris Sale was in the ninth inning of another dominant start when he came off the mound to make a diving play and fractured his rib cage. Baltimore Orioles All-Star catcher Adley Rutschman was taking batting practice, strained his oblique, and landed on the IL for the first time in his career. Arizona Diamondbacks superstar Corbin Carroll was hit by a pitch, went for an MRI five days later, and discovered a chip fracture in his wrist. Los Angeles Angels shortstop Zach Neto, having a career year after offseason shoulder surgery, was pulled off the field because of pain in that same shoulder. Advertisement Is it just us, or is MLB's Injured List especially loaded these days? Sale, Rutschman, Carroll and Neto are first-round picks among the best players on their teams — if not in the sport — and they've joined a league-wide IL that until Wednesday included five of the last 10 Cy Young winners, a two-time MVP, one of the game's best left-handed hitters, and enough high-end third basemen to keep Rafael Devers from playing the hot corner for two different teams. The first round of All-Star voting is coming to a close this week, and as it turns out, we could make a pretty impressive All-Star team from the players who are currently hurt or rehabbing. We'll call it the All-IL team. Chris Sale (Braves), Blake Snell (Dodgers), Corbin Burnes (Diamondbacks), Cole Ragans (Royals), Hunter Greene (Reds) Starting pitchers are notoriously injury prone, but even in that context, the list of currently injured starters is staggering. It's long enough — and good enough — to put together multiple rotations that would be among the best in the game. Want a rotation of all Cy Young winners? How about Sale, Snell, Burnes, Shane Bieber and — until he made his second start of the season on Wednesday — Max Scherzer? Looking for younger, would-be Cy Young contenders? Greene, Ragans, Shane McClanahan, Shota Imanaga and Michael King are all on the IL. Proven veterans? Yu Darvish, Tyler Glasnow, Nathan Eovaldi, Aaron Nola and Pablo Lopez. Exciting young arms? Roki Sasaki, Luis Gil, Jackson Jobe, Jared Jones and Grayson Rodriguez. We could build an IL rotation of guys coming off breakout seasons (Sean Manaea, Tanner Houck, Reese Olson, Ben Lively, Bryce Miller), or guys who have been hurt for far too long (Lance McCullers, Brandon Woodruff, Tony Gonsolin, Alex Cobb, Max Meyer). We could even build one of accomplished pitchers we've so far failed to mention (Justin Steele, Kodai Senga, Tyler Mahle, Cristian Javier, Joe Musgrove). Point is, there's a ton of pitching talent on the IL at the moment. Senga and Eovaldi have the lowest ERAs in the majors among pitchers with at least 40 innings. Mahle and King were making a case for their first All-Star selections. Sale was making a valiant attempt to defend his first Cy Young award. For now, all are out of the mix. Advertisement Adley Rutschman (Orioles) Four teams have lost a key backstop in the past month. The Athletics lost catcher Shea Langeliers in early June, around the same time that Diamondbacks catcher Gabriel Moreno broke his hand (though Moreno played through it for a few weeks before being shut down). Last week, Rutschman got hurt on the same day that the St. Louis Cardinals put catcher/DH Iván Herrera — amid a terrific, potentially All-Star-worthy season at the plate — on the IL with a Grade 2 hamstring strain. The bright side of such setbacks: The early-season injuries to Braves catcher Sean Murphy and Red Sox catcher Connor Wong opened the door to playing time for Drake Baldwin and Carlos Narváez, each of whom has been excellent. Time will tell whether replacements can do nearly that well in Baltimore, Arizona and Sacramento. Bryce Harper (Phillies) Young Otto Kemp has been a solid placeholder, but it's hard to replace a two-time MVP. Harper has been on the IL with a sore wrist since June 7. The Phillies have played well in his absence to move into first place, but Harper remains their best hitter this side of Kyle Schwarber (entering Wednesday, Harper was tied for the second-most homers on the team despite having the eighth-most at-bats). The Boston Red Sox lost first baseman Triston Casas for the year on May 2, the Orioles likely won't have Ryan Mountcastle until after the trade deadline, and the Rangers lost offseason addition Jake Burger to an oblique strain last week. Those three teams have struggled far more without their first basemen than the Phillies have without Harper, but Harper remains one of the game's singular talents. Ha-Seong Kim (Rays), Ezequiel Tovar (Rockies) The Rays are still waiting for one of the biggest offseason additions to make his organizational debut. Kim signed a two-year, $29-million deal this winter and could be a significant offensive upgrade at shortstop (he could also help at second when defensive-minded Taylor Walls is at short). Kim has been on a rehab assignment and could join the Rays relatively soon, a welcome addition as they've played their way back into playoff contention. Can't say the same for Tovar, who's coming off a terrific, Gold Glove season but has played only 32 games this year because of hip and oblique injuries. His return is unclear, and the Rockies are thoroughly out of the running anyway. The Kansas City Royals are also without second baseman Michael Massey, the Athletics don't have young infielder Zack Gelof, the Houston Astros have former Gold Glove winner Brendan Rodgers on the IL, and the Angels are still hoping Neto's injury is relatively minor. Alex Bregman (Red Sox), Matt Chapman (Giants) Only one third baseman, you say? Fine. You pick. Bregman was everything the Red Sox hoped he would be before he strained his quad on May 23. Bregman has yet to ramp up to baseball activities. Chapman was having another excellent all-around season (12 homers, six defensive runs saved) before hurting his hand diving into first base on June 8. He's doing light swinging. Both have been worth 2.4 fWAR this season, and neither the Red Sox nor Giants has put Devers at third base in their place. While Bregman and Chapman are two of the best third basemen in baseball, plenty of other teams are missing talent at the hot corner. The Minnesota Twins are without Royce Lewis (again), the New York Mets have been without Mark Vientos (who was a star of last year's postseason and is set to return later this week), and the Angels have neither Anthony Rendon nor Yoán Moncada (shocking, we know). Corbin Carroll (Diamondbacks), Daulton Varsho (Blue Jays), Victor Robles (Mariners) Carroll, one of the game's great young talents, is going to miss an undetermined amount of time with a broken hand. Varsho, one of the game's great defenders, is on the IL for the second time this season, this time with a hamstring strain (he missed most of April recovering from shoulder surgery). The third name listed could be Varsho's teammate Anthony Santander, who's out with his own shoulder issue, but Santander was so bad the first two months of the season that it's hard to label him as one of the top outfielders on the IL at the moment. Robles, though, was coming off a breakout 2024 season — which led to a two-year contract extension — but he dislocated his shoulder just 10 games into the season. The Mariners need all the offense they can get, and the Robles injury has left them without one of their best bats. Orioles offseason addition Tyler O'Neill, Nationals touted prospect Dylan Crews, and one of the Miami Marlins' best young hitters, Griffin Conine, have also missed significant time this season. Advertisement Yordan Alvarez (Astros) A broken hand seems likely to keep Alvarez from making his fourth straight All-Star team. The game's best DH not named Shohei Ohtani was initially diagnosed with a muscle strain before further testing revealed a small fracture. Without him, baseball has missed one of its premier left-handed sluggers. The Red Sox (Masataka Yoshida), Rangers (Joc Pederson) and Mets (Jessie Winker) are also without key left-handed designated hitters. The Angels have been without right-handed DH Jorge Soler since mid-June, and the Rockies have been without veteran Kris Bryant since mid-April. Blake Treinen (Dodgers), Evan Phillips (Dodgers), Justin Martinez (Diamondbacks), Jordan Hicks (Red Sox), Jason Foley (Tigers) We could literally fill an entire pitching staff with injured Dodgers. The team has 13 pitchers on the IL, including at least three would-be key pieces of their bullpen in Treinen, Phillips and Brusdar Graterol. The Red Sox have yet to use Hicks (who was hurt when they acquired him in the Devers trade), and they've been without key late-inning arms Liam Hendriks and Justin Slaten since the end of May. Martinez was among the most recent high-leverage relievers to go down (part of a recent flurry of injuries for a Diamondbacks team already without lefty A.J. Puk, who is out for the season). The Tigers haven't had either of their past two closers, Foley or Alex Lange this season, but they remain in first place all the same. (Top photo of Sale: Julio Aguilar / Getty Images)
