Tarik Skubal tied his career high with 13 strikeouts in the first complete game shutout of his career, lifting the Detroit Tigers to a 5-0 victory over the visiting Cleveland Guardians on Sunday.Skubal (5-2), the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, retired the first 15 batters he faced and gave up only two hits without issuing a walk. Skubal had never thrown a complete game in his previous 113 starts.Zach McKinstry hit a two-run homer to spark a five-run fourth inning for the Tigers, who salvaged the finale of a four-game series with their Central Division rival. Gleyber Torres reached base three times, scored a run and knocked in another.Jose Ramirez extended his hitting streak to 18 games with a single in the seventh inning.Cleveland starter Logan Allen (2-3) gave up five runs (four earned) and six hits in 3 2/3 innings. Nic Enright, making his major-league debut, struck out three in two scoreless innings of relief.Detroit squandered a scoring opportunity in the second inning, leaving the bases loaded.Allen walked Torres and Riley Greene in the third but Spencer Torkelson bounced into a fielder’s choice to end the inning.The floodgates opened in the fourth. Justyn-Henry Malloy reached on an infield single and scored on McKinstry’s two-run shot. McKinstry’s third homer came on a full count.
