Tigers win AL Division Series Game 2 2024

CLEVELAND — Tarik Skubal asked the obvious to the Progressive Field crowd as he walked off the mound at the end of the sixth inning on Monday: Are you not entertained?

As Kerry Carpenter stepped on home plate, his three-run homer off Emmanuel Clase having broken a scoreless deadlock in the ninth, the Tigers slugger asked much the same.

“I blacked out after I hit it,” Carpenter said in a TV interview after the game.

This was high drama in Game 2 of the American League Division Series, and the script fit what got the Tigers here. Skubal shut down the Guardians for seven innings, taking a scoreless game into the Cleveland evening before Carpenter’s drive sent Detroit home with a 3-0 win and a series draw. They’ll take the series to Comerica Park with games Wednesday and Thursday.