The most impressive skill of Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal is not that he can throw 100 mph or that he has a nasty changeup that is about 12 mph slower or that he has two wicked breaking pitches. It’s that with that kind of stuff he can be several different pitchers—whatever is required to defuse the opponent.
Here are Skubal’s most favored pitches in his past three wins entering Tuesday’s wild-card Game 1:
