Tarik Skubal prepares for emotional return to Detroit with Dodgers

Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Tarik Skubal had a heavy outing on August 28th against his former beloved team, the Detroit Tigers. Entering free agency, and with the Tigers left unable to afford Skubal, Detroit was essentially forced to deal…

DETROIT — For Tarik Skubal, the return to Comerica Park was always going to be about more than baseball.

There were scattered boos for Skubal before he worked six excellent innings

Tarik Skubal heard mostly cheers and some jeers in his first start in Detroit since he was traded to the Dodgers and treated the Comerica Park crowd to six dominant innings against his former team Friday.

Tarik Skubal returned to Comerica Park 26 days after the biggest move of the MLB trade deadline.

Tarik Skubal was welcomed with cheers and a smattering of boos in his return to Detroit, where he pitched for the Los Angeles Dodgers against his former team for the first time since the middling franchise traded him to the two-time defending World Series champions. When the visitors' lineup and Skubal were shown on the videoboard and his name was announced before the first pitch, most of the crowd at Comerica Park clapped for the two-time Cy Young Award winner while some jeered him. The Tigers showed a video montage from his seven-season career with the team and posted a message at the end: Thank you, Tarik.

New Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Tarik Skubal hasn't hidden that leaving his only team, the Detroit Tigers, is difficult.

Tarik Skubal will take the mound at Comerica Park less than a month after being traded.

On August 18, 2020, 23-year-old left-hander Tarik Skubal made his major league debut for a Detroit Tigers team that went on to miss the postseason for a sixth consecutive season. Over the next six years, Skubal helped Detroit reach the postseason over two consecutive seasons, with highlights being his performance in Game 5 of last […]

Former Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal returns to Comerica Park as a member of Los Angeles Dodgers. Here's where to watch on TV channel and streaming.

Overall this season, Skubal is 8-7 with a 2.91 ERA. In four starts for the Dodgers since the Aug. 1 trade, Skubal is 1-2 with a 3.38 ERA.

Tarik Skubal is scheduled to start Friday against his former team, weeks after getting traded to the Dodgers at the deadline. "For me, the game is always the same game," Skubal said.

Tarik Skubal knows he will feel emotions when he makes his return to Detroit on Friday night to pitch against the Tigers only four weeks after he was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Skubal says he hopes to focus on representing the Dodgers instead of dwelling on his memories with the Tigers at Comerica Park. “We'll see, right?” Skubal told SI.com on Wednesday.