21-year-old McGonigle<\/a> hit a two-run double with the bases loaded on the first big league pitch he saw in the first inning. He had a second double and an infield single while scoring two runs in his next two at-bats, and added a single in the ninth.<\/p>\nMcGonigle finished 4 for 5 while batting sixth and playing third base. After just 46 games last season in Double-A, the multi-position infielder made Detroit’s major league roster with an undeniably strong spring, skipping Triple-A entirely.<\/p>\n
Two-time AL Cy Young award winner Tarik Skubal (1-0) pitched six innings of three-hit ball with six strikeouts in his third straight opening day start for Detroit, allowing only an unearned run.<\/p>\n
Dillon Dingler homered and drove in three runs while Detroit jumped to an 8-0 lead in the fifth inning and cruised to its 12th win on opening day in the last 15 seasons.<\/p>\n
Xander Bogaerts hit an RBI double off Skubal in the sixth inning of a rough opener for rookie manager Craig Stammen and the Padres, who are coming off only the second back-to-back playoff appearances in franchise history. Stammen, the former Padres reliever, replaced Mike Shildt.<\/p>\n
Nick Pivetta (0-1) lasted just three innings in his first career opening day start, struggling through a 33-pitch first inning and getting the hook after yielding six runs on seven hits and three walks.<\/p>\n
Spencer Torkelson drew a bases-loaded walk from Pivetta right before McGonigle’s first-pitch double.<\/p>\n
McGonigle then lined a 105.9-mph double off the right-field wall in the third, barely beating Fernando Tatis Jr.’s throw to second. He scored his first big league run moments later on Parker Meadows’ single.<\/p>\n
Ram\u00f3n Laureano homered in the seventh for San Diego. Nick Castellanos flied out to center with the bases loaded to end the eighth in his Padres debut.<\/p>\n
Longtime Astros ace Framber Valdez (13-11, 3.66 ERA) debuts for the Tigers on Friday after signing a $115 million free-agent deal last month. The Padres send out Michael King (5-3, 3.44 ERA), who re-signed on a $75 million deal after a solid but injury-plagued 2025.<\/p>\n
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