The game between Detroit and visiting Kansas City Royals was suspended after four innings due to rain on Wednesday night with the Tigers leading 4-0.
The contest will be resumed at 1:10 p.m. ET on Thursday. The regularly scheduled game will begin approximately 40 minutes after the conclusion of the suspended game.
Miguel Cabrera, who is retiring at the end of the season, blasted his fourth homer of the season and 511th of his career in the second inning. Tyler Nevin launched a three-run homer as a fourth-inning pinch hitter.
Rain fell for much of the contest and picked up after the fourth inning, forcing the umpires to call a delay. After a wait of more than an hour, the decision was made to suspend the game.
Detroit starter Tarik Skubal cruised through the four innings, holding the Royals to two hits while racking up eight strikeouts and issuing no walks.
Skubal won all four of his previous starts in September, and the rain delay may have cost him another victory.
In 10 previous appearances against Kansas City, including eight starts, Skubal was 1-7 with a 5.51 ERA.
The Royals (54-103) used Jonathan Bowlan as their opener. The 26-year-old right-hander, making his major league debut, gave up one run, on Cabrera’s homer, and three hits in two innings. He struck out two and didn’t walk a batter.
Cabrera jumped on the first pitch of the second inning, lining it to the opposite field. It cleared the right-center-field wall to give Detroit a 1-0 lead.
Skubal was dominant from the get-go. He fanned two batters in the first, two more in the second and then struck out the side in the third.
With Angel Zerpa on the mound in the fourth, the Tigers extended their advantage to 4-0. Cabrera hit a one-out single and Andy Ibanez followed with a double down the right field line. Nevin then launched his second homer of the season over the right field wall.
Detroit (74-83) won the series opener on Monday 6-3 and holds an 8-3 advantage in the season series.
–Field Level Media