MLB Playoff Roundup: Tarik Skubal, Kerry Carpenter even up series for Tigers

The Yankees fell flat on Monday, dropping Game 2 to the Royals setting up a battle in Kansas City to regain home field advantage or else their season will end.

New Yorks defeat meant that we had three series where everything was knotted at one apiece after two games, but there was one more series going on before the Yankees and Royals even took the field.

Lets see if the Tigers managed to make it 4-for-4 in their matchup with the Guardians.

AL Division Series Game 2 Detroit Tigers 3, Cleveland Guardians 0 (Series tied, 1-1) The Tigers have a hell of a challenge ahead of them to win this series still, but it cannot be denied that theyre the favorites whenever Tarik Skubal takes the mound.

The presumptive AL Cy Young winner dominated again, tossing seven innings of shutout ball and scattered just three hits around in the process.

A complete reversal of the Tigers fortune in Game 1, they avoided getting buried out of the gate and instead went tit-for-tat with the Guards in a good ol fashioned pitchers duel.

Skubal started off with a pair of strikeouts in the first inning, and capped off his second clean inning with another K.

Cleveland never stood a chance in the third, as Skubal struck out the side, and only the leadoff batter Andres Gimenez even put up a fight, seeing eight pitches in the process.

The fourth was another clean frame, which is just about the sweet spot where you can start to think about the goose eggs on the scoreboard, but the fifth gave him his first challenge.

Josh Naylor got the Guardians their first hit with a one-out double, and Jhonkensy Noel got put on first after a pitch inside grazed his hand.

However, Skubal bounced right back and induced a double play to end the threat without a problem.

The sixth inning brought more of the same, this time with Brayan Rocchios one-out double getting wasted by another double play.

While the Tigers were blanking the Guardians, they were also getting blanked themselves.

Longtime former Tiger Matthew Boyd is in his first year with Cleveland, and after just eight regular season starts got tabbed to be their Game 2 starter versing his old team.

He stepped up, tossing 4.2 innings to keep pace with Skubal as best as he could.

Boyd had to work out of a few jams, first with runners on first and second with one out in the third and then allowing a leadoff double to start the fourth.

Both times he hunkered down and kept the scoreless affair going, before passing the torch over to the dominant Cleveland pen.

Skubal closed out his day with a 1-2-3 seventh inning, and still there was no score.

Will Vest took over for the eighth inning and kept the train rolling for Detroit, pitching a clean frame and bringing us to the ninth, where things finally changed.

Cleveland brought in their closer, Emmanuel Clase, to end the eighth and kept him in for the ninth, but after recording the first two outs Detroit found some momentum.

First Jake Rogers singled over to left field, and then Trey Sweeney singled to center to move the go-ahead run into scoring position.

Kerry Carpenter was next-up, and delivered one of the biggest hits Detroit has had all year: At last the scoring drought was over, and now all that stood between Detroit and a tied series were three more outs.

Beau Brieske was brought on for his second save of the postseason and made short work of the Guardians, getting a fly out before striking out Steven Kwan and David Fry to secure the win..

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