Tigers run win streak to five with shutout of Yankees

Tarik Skubal pitched six scoreless innings and his Detroit teammates blasted four home runs as the host Tigers stretched their win streak to five games by blanking the New York Yankees, 5-0, on Tuesday afternoon.

Skubal (1-2), the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, held the Yankees to four hits and struck out six without a walk. Brant Hurter completed the shutout while striking out three in the last three innings.

Spencer Torkelson, Zach McKinstry and Dillon Dingler homered in the fourth inning against Yankees starter Carlos Carrasco (1-1). That trio had two hits apiece, with Torkelson scoring two runs and McKinstry driving in a pair.

Kerry Carpenter also homered for the Tigers, who have won seven of their last eight games.

Carrasco gave up four runs on six hits in 4 1/3 innings. Paul Goldschmidt had three hits for the Yankees, who have lost three straight.

The first two batters of the game, Goldschmidt and Ben Rice, singled. Skubal retired the next three batters, including a pair of strikeouts.

Skubal also had two strikeouts in the second, then got a lead to work with from his offense. Torkelson smacked a ground-rule double and moved to third on Colt Keith’s single. McKinstry’s sacrifice fly knocked in Torkelson.

Dingler followed with a single but Carrasco escaped further damage by getting Trey Sweeney to bounce into a double play.

Torkelson jumped on Carrasco’s first pitch in the fourth, pounding a slider over the left-center field wall for his third homer of the season. One out later, McKinstry blasted his first homer to right-center and Dingler hammered his second homer beyond the left-center field wall.

Carpenter made it 5-0 with his solo shot off Ryan Yarbrough with one out in the fifth.

Goldschmidt had a single and Aaron Judge reached on a two-out single in the sixth. Skubal then set down Jazz Chisholm on a popup.

The Yankees had two baserunners in the ninth. Hurter finished off the shutout by getting Austin Wells to bounce into a double play.

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