After opening the 2026 campaign with a three-game sweep of the San Diego Padres, the Detroit Tigers are in danger of getting swept in their second series of the season against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix.<\/p>\n
The first two games have resulted in a 9-6 loss<\/a> on Monday night and a 7-5 loss<\/a> on Tuesday night. Wednesday afternoon\u2019s finale brings hope to the Motor City Kitties as their ace takes the mound.<\/p>\n The sixth game of the year sees the starting rotation reset and brings up Tarik Skubal, who carved the Padres up in a six-inning shutout effort in his first appearance. He will go up against Zac Gallen, whose 2026 debut was one to forget.<\/p>\n Here is a look at how they match up on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n Detroit Tigers (2-3) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (2-3)<\/p>\n Game 6: LHP Tarik Skubal (1-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. RHP Zac Gallen (0-1, 9.00 ERA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After opening the 2026 campaign with a three-game sweep of the San Diego Padres, the Detroit Tigers are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,82835,38,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-656848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-detroit-tigers-game-information","13":"tag-diamondbacks","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116330134706709690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}