The best team in all of baseball, the Detroit Tigers, fell to the red hot St. Louis Cardinals last night, 11-4, at Busch Stadium but they should get back on track when they resume their 3-game series tonight. The reigning AL Cy Young winner, southpaw Tarik Skubal, is expected to get the start for the Tigers. Skubal is having another stellar year with a record of 4-2, a 2.67 ERA, and a WHIP of only 0.88. It doesn’t get much better than that. The Cardinals, who have won 13 of their last 15, are expected to hand the ball to Erick Fedde, who is 3-3 with a 3.44 ERA and a 1.30 WHIP. In his last turn against Philadelphia, Fedde was dealing, yielding no runs and just 3 hits over 5-2/3 innings of work but for some reason skipper Oliver Marmol thought he should be pulled, and the bullpen blew it; the Cards lost 2-1. It won’t be easy for Detroit with Fedde on the hill but the Tigers are not in the habit of losing two in a row. They have the edge in runs scored, run differential, homers and Skubal is on the hill.
TONIGHT’S PICK: DETROIT TIGERS