Detroit Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal throws against the Seattle Mariners in the second inning during a baseball game, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Detroit Tigers’ Gleyber Torres, right, celebrates scoring with Dillon Dingler, left, against the Seattle Mariners in the fourth inning during a baseball game, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Seattle Mariners’ Julio RodrÃguez celebrates his two-run home run against the Detroit Tigers in the fifth inning during a baseball game, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Seattle Mariners left fielder Randy Arozarena catches a Detroit Tigers’ Colt Keith fly ball as Ben Williamson (9) looks on in the third inning during a baseball game, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Raleigh hits 37th and 38th homers, Mariners end Skubal’s 3-month unbeaten streak with 12-3 romp
DETROIT (AP) — Cal Raleigh hit his 37th and 38th home runs to move within one of Barry Bonds’ 2001 record for homers before the All-Star break, and the Seattle Mariners beat Detroit 12-3 on Friday night to end Tarik Skubal’s three-month unbeaten streak.
Detroit Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal throws against the Seattle Mariners in the second inning during a baseball game, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
DETROIT (AP) — Cal Raleigh hit his 37th and 38th home runs to move within one of Barry Bonds’ 2001 record for homers before the All-Star break, and the Seattle Mariners beat Detroit 12-3 on Friday night to end Tarik Skubal’s three-month unbeaten streak.
Raleigh — in the lineup as designated hitter — made it 5-3 on a in the eighth inning, then hit a in a seven-run ninth.
Skubal (10-3) was 10-0 with a 1.62 ERA in 16 starts since losing 3-2 to the Mariners in Seattle on April 2. He allowed four runs on four hits and two walks in five innings, striking out five.
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Luis Castillo (6-5) got the win, giving up three runs in five innings.
Seattle took a 1-0 lead in the third when center fielder Parker Meadows dove for Donovan Solano’s sinking liner and missed. It rolled to the wall for an RBI triple. ach McKinstry tied it with a fourth-inning single.
J.P. Crawford’s two-out RBI single made it 2-1 in the fifth, and RodrÃguez followed with a two-run homer over the Seattle bullpen in left-center field.
Riley Greene’s RBI triple got the major league-leading Tigers to 4-2 in the sixth, and Spencer Torkelson followed with a sacrifice fly.
Key moment
Nine of Seattle’s first 10 batters reached base in the ninth inning, leading manager A.J. Hinch to insert catcher Jake Rogers for his third career pitching appearance. He retired two of the three batters he faced to escape the inning.
Key stat
Skubal started on four days rest in order to get an extra day off before the All-Star Game. In his career, he’s 14-15 with a 3.98 ERA on four days of rest, but 37-16 with a 2.68 ERA on five or more. The biggest difference comes in walks (2.6 per nine as opposed to 1.6) and homers (1.4 per nine as opposed to 0.8).
Up next
Tigers All-Star RHP Casey Mize (9-2, 2.63) was set to face RHP George Kirby (3-4, 4.22) on Saturday.
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