{"id":678722,"date":"2026-04-18T23:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/678722\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:48:29","slug":"tarik-skubal-strikes-out-10-as-tigers-beat-red-sox-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/678722\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarik Skubal strikes out 10 as Tigers beat Red Sox, 4-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tarik Skubal struck out a season-high 10 over six innings of one-run ball, Kerry Carpenter hit a solo homer and the Detroit Tigers beat the Boston Red Sox 4-1 on Saturday, ending their nine-game road losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Tigers&#8217; longest winless road stretch since a 10-gamer in 2010. Rookie Kevin McGonigle had an RBI single and two hits.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Skubal (3-2) held the Red Sox to four hits and had the 18th double-digit strikeout game of his career, with 10 coming last season.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/skubal.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Detroit Tigers v Boston Red Sox \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Tarik Skubal pitches against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on April 18, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                Jaiden Tripi \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Holton worked two scoreless innings and Kenley Jansen got the final three outs for his fifth save, the 481st of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Boston starter Brayan Bello (1-2) was roughed up for four runs in four innings. The Red Sox have lost all 12 games this season when their starter doesn&#8217;t go at least six innings and won all eight when they do.<\/p>\n<p>With the Tigers leading 1-0, Carpenter sparked a three-run fourth by hitting Bello&#8217;s changeup into Detroit&#8217;s bullpen. Jake Rogers added a sacrifice fly and McGonigle had his run-scoring single.<\/p>\n<p>In a victory over Miami in his previous start on Sunday, Skubal had a no-hit bid broken up with two outs in the sixth inning.<\/p>\n<p>The AL&#8217;s back-to-back Cy Young Award winner took a no-hitter into the fifth Saturday before Wilyer Abreu had a leadoff single up-the-middle. The Red Sox loaded the bases with no outs but managed only a run on Connor Wong&#8217;s double-play grounder.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a 1-0 walk-off win in the series opener Friday, Boston&#8217;s bats were quiet again after collecting just four hits the previous night.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Tigers LHP Framber Valdez (1-1, 3.75 ERA) was slated to face Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet (2-2, 7.58), coming off the worst start in club history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tarik Skubal struck out a season-high 10 over six innings of one-run ball, Kerry Carpenter hit a solo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,48,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-678722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston-red-sox","10":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116428388415033450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678722","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=678722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}