{"id":255213,"date":"2026-07-29T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/tarik-skubal-reaches-career-milestone-in-what-could-be-final-start-as-a-tiger\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:54:00","slug":"tarik-skubal-reaches-career-milestone-in-what-could-be-final-start-as-a-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/tarik-skubal-reaches-career-milestone-in-what-could-be-final-start-as-a-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarik Skubal reaches career milestone in what could be final start as a Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In what could be his final start for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/detroit_tigers\/10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> , left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/players\/tarik_skubal\/698804\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tarik Skubal<\/a> reached a career milestone when he punched out the first batter of the game in  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/baltimore_orioles\/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a> outfielder Taylor Ward.<\/p>\n<h2>Tarik Skubal reaches 1,000 strikeouts<\/h2>\n<p>Skubal&#8217;s strikeout of Ward was the 1,000th of his career. He became the 17th pitcher in franchise history to reach the milestone and the first since Max Scherzer in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Skubal also passed Scherzer as the fastest in franchise history to get to the 1,000-strikeout mark. It came on his patented changeup, and he was given a standing ovation from the Detroit crowd.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/tarik_skubal_reaches_career_milestone_in_what_could_be_final_start_as_a_tiger\/s1_13132_44115119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what could be his final start for the Detroit Tigers , left-hander Tarik Skubal reached a career milestone when he punched out the first batter of the game in Baltimore Orioles outfielder Taylor Ward. Tarik Skubal reaches 1,000 strikeouts Skubal&#8217;s strikeout of Ward was the 1,000th of his career. He became the 17th pitcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}