{"id":668686,"date":"2026-04-07T16:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/668686\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:26:19","slug":"game-11-preview-tigers-look-to-bounce-back-vs-twins-behind-skubal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/668686\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 11 Preview: Tigers look to bounce back vs Twins behind Skubal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Detroit Tigers opened up their four-game road series at the Minnesota Twins on Monday night with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blessyouboys.com\/detroit-tigers-scores-standings\/88166\/detroit-tigers-recaps-final-score-casey-mize-brant-hurter-colt-keith-kevin-mcgonigle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:7-3 loss;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;7-3 loss&quot;}\" class=\"link \">7-3 loss<\/a>. Casey Mize struggled in the frigid temperatures, while the bats also went cold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tuesday night offers an opportunity to knot things up with the Twinkies behind the best left-handed pitcher in the world, Tarik Skubal. So far, the southpaw has been nearly lights out, but unfortunately, that has not prevented him from being saddled with a loss already.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hopefully, the offense can come alive behind the two-time consecutive Cy Young Award winner. But this is expected to be another cold one, with the high today reaching only 45 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Twinkies will be sending right-hander Taj Bradley, who has looked just as good as Skubes statistically so far in an extremely limited sample size. Here is how those two match up on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit Tigers\u00a0(4-6) vs.\u00a0Minnesota Twins\u00a0(4-6)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Time (ET):\u00a07:40 p.m. ET<br \/>Place:\u00a0Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota<br \/>SB Nation Site: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twinkietown.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twinkie Town;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;Twinkie Town&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Twinkie Town<\/a><br \/>Media: Detroit SportsNet,\u00a0MLB.TV,\u00a0Tigers Radio Network<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Game 11: LHP Tarik Skubal\u00a0(1-1,\u00a00.69 ERA) vs. RHP Taj Bradley\u00a0(1-0,\u00a00.87 ERA)<\/p>\n<p>Player<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">G<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">IP<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">K%<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">BB%<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">GB%<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">FIP<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">fWAR<\/p>\n<p>Skubal<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">13.0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">19.1<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">0.0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">47.4<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2.80<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">0.3<\/p>\n<p>Bradley<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">10.1<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">27.9<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">9.3<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">37.0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2.03<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">0.4<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">SKUBAL<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"650\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fb7764dbefcaaeac574046ec25a3d821.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">BRADLEY<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"650\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bcc8ef850f1a732dc7896d7c606cfe10.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Tigers opened up their four-game road series at the Minnesota Twins on Monday night with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,399,147,53,2583,85052,60,4,763,382,594,85051],"class_list":{"0":"post-668686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-casey-mize","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-tigers","12":"tag-detroittigers","13":"tag-frigid-temperatures","14":"tag-minnesota-twins","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-taj-bradley","17":"tag-tarik-skubal","18":"tag-tigers","19":"tag-twinkies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116364365115383436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668686","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=668686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}