{"id":674358,"date":"2026-04-12T21:42:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/674358\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T21:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:42:52","slug":"detroit-tigers-hit-3-home-runs-in-8-2-win-for-3-game-sweep-of-miami-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/674358\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers hit 3 home runs in 8-2 win for 3-game sweep of Miami Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tarik Skubal outpitched Sandy Alc\u00e1ntara in a matchup of Cy Young Award winners, Dillon Dingler, Kevin McGonigle and Kerry Carpenter homered and the Detroit Tigers earned a three-game sweep with an 8-2 win over the Miami Marlins on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit has bounced back from a stretch of losing nine of 11 with its three-game winning streak. <\/p>\n<p>Skubal retired the first nine batters he faced and the two-time reigning AL Cy Young winner had a no-hit bid broken up by Austin Slater&#8217;s bloop single with two outs in the sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Skubal (2-2) allowed a run and a season-low two hits with seven strikeouts in 6 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Alc\u00e1ntara (2-1) allowed seven runs and 10 hits after allowing a total of two earned runs and 10 hits over his first three starts of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 NL Cy Young Award winner allowed Dingler&#8217;s three-run homer in the first inning. <\/p>\n<p>McGonigle hit his first career homer in the fifth inning to make it 4-0 and Carpenter added a two-run homer run in a three-run sixth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Miami&#8217;s Otto Lopez had a sacrifice fly in the seventh to drive in Jakob Marsee and added a solo homer in the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins dropped to .500 with their seventh loss in 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Miami RHP Eury Perez (1-1, 5.06 ERA) opens a series at Atlanta on Monday night when the Braves&#8217; Grant Holmes (1-1, 2.55) makes a scheduled start.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit is off Monday before hosting Kansas City on Tuesday. LHP Framber Valdez (1-1, 4.76) and Kansas City LHP Cole Ragans (0-3, 5.93) are the scheduled starters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tarik Skubal outpitched Sandy Alc\u00e1ntara in a matchup of Cy Young Award winners, Dillon Dingler, Kevin McGonigle and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,147,53,2123,19,1816,778,58,4171,4,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-674358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-tigers","11":"tag-kansas-city","12":"tag-major-league-baseball","13":"tag-marlins","14":"tag-miami","15":"tag-miami-marlins","16":"tag-miamimarlins","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116393919935569535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674358","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=674358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}