{"id":657206,"date":"2026-04-01T18:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657206\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:53:19","slug":"tigers-lineup-vs-diamondbacks-as-tarik-skubal-makes-second-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657206\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers&#8217; lineup vs. Diamondbacks as Tarik Skubal makes second start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tigers will try to avoid a three-game sweep by the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday and they will deploy their ace for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Tarik Skubal (1-0, 0.00 ERA) makes his second start for the 3:40 p.m. first pitch in Phoenix. He will be opposed by Zac Gallen.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/tigers\/2026\/03\/31\/detroit-tigers-tarik-skubal-back-where-his-journey-started-in-arizona\/89397889007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tigers&#039; Tarik Skubal back where his journey started in Arizona;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Tigers&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Tigers&#8217; Tarik Skubal back where his journey started in Arizona<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Skubal gave up three hits and an unearned run and struck out six in the Tigers\u2019 8-2 victory in San Diego on Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p>Gallen (0-1, 9.00 ERA), who lost to the Dodgers, 8-2, in his first start, has made two career starts against the Tigers, going 0-1 with a 5.84 ERA. Skubal has faced Arizona once, giving up one hit in six innings of a 13-0 victory in Phoenix in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Tigers lineup vs. Diamondbacks<\/p>\n<p>1. Colt Keith, 1B<\/p>\n<p>2. Kevin McGonigle, 3B<\/p>\n<p>3. Gleyber Torres, 2B<\/p>\n<p>4. Riley Greene, DH<\/p>\n<p>5. Dillon Dingler, C<\/p>\n<p>6. Kerry Carpenter, RF<\/p>\n<p>7. Matt Vierling, LF<\/p>\n<p>8. Parker Meadows, CF<\/p>\n<p>9. Javier Baez, SS<\/p>\n<p>Tarik Skubal, SP<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/tigers\/2026\/04\/01\/the-tigers-will-try-to-avoid-a-three-game-sweep-by-the-arizona-diamondbacks-on-wednesday-and-they-wi\/89417507007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Detroit Tigers&#039; lineup vs. Diamondbacks as Tarik Skubal starts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Detroit Tigers&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Detroit Tigers&#8217; lineup vs. Diamondbacks as Tarik Skubal starts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tigers will try to avoid a three-game sweep by the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday and they will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,1964,38,1390,39,95,1329,391,1387,4,1402,624,137,382,1323,594,86],"class_list":{"0":"post-657206","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-colt-keith","13":"tag-diamondbacks","14":"tag-dillon-dingler","15":"tag-dodgers","16":"tag-gleyber-torres","17":"tag-javier-baez","18":"tag-kerry-carpenter","19":"tag-matt-vierling","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-parker-meadows","22":"tag-riley-greene","23":"tag-san-diego","24":"tag-tarik-skubal","25":"tag-the-tigers","26":"tag-tigers","27":"tag-zac-gallen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116330968438934681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657206","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=657206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}