What a comfort it must be, what a gift, for manager AJ Hinch to be able send Tarik Skubal to the mound every five days or so.

Tigers ace Tarik Skubal turned in a gem on Sunday and even had ESPN's Jeff Passan making an extremely bold declaration.

They won the first three games of this four-game series to re-establish contact with the AL-Central leading Tigers. Asking them to beat Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal on Sunday to complete their first four-game sweep in Motown since 2017 would have been a bit too much.

DETROIT -- Tarik Skubal threw the first complete game and shutout of his career, leading the Detroit Tigers to a 5-0 victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Sunday afternoon at Comerica Park.

On Saturday, Cleveland won its fifth straight game against the Tigers between regular season and postseason play. Amazingly, the Guardians' 7–5 10-inning victory tied the all-time series at 1,161 games apiece. Sunday is the rubber match, and as all baseball fans know, the six best words in sports are Game Two Thousand Three Hundred Thirty-Five.

Tigers fourth. Justyn-Henry Malloy singles to shallow infield. Dillon Dingler lines out to left field to Nolan Jones. Zach McKinstry homers to right field. Justyn-Henry Malloy scores. Javier

Kyle Manzardo started the 10th with a double into the left field corner off Brenan Hanifee (2-2) to score Ramirez, the automatic runner at second, for a 4-3 lead. After Carlos Santana walked, Angel Martinez doubled to score Manzardo. A sacrifice fly by Bo Naylor and single by Nolan Jones ended the scoring.

The Detroit Tigers fell on Friday night, losing 3-1 to the Cleveland Guardians at Comerica Park. With the loss, Detroit is now 33-19, which is still good enough