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Tarik Skubal (Screenshot from MLB video)
The American League All-Star Team invested heavily in the first-place Detroit Tigers, playing six players on Tuesday night. Fans back home hoped the players would do Detroit proud. That didn't happen.
How bad were they?
OptaSTATS wrote on X: "The 2025 Tigers are the first team in MLB history to have 6 or more players play in the All-Star Game but have none of them get a hit at the plate or toss a scoreless outing on the mound."
The Tigers went collectively 0-for-8 — ugh. And what some fans feared most happened: Tarik Skubal, one of the best pitchers in the majors who sometimes gets off to a rocky start in the first inning of games, got off to a rocky start as the American League starter.
The Tigers’ All-Star players looked every bit like the team that had just lost four games in a row before the All-Star break.
Skubal, pitching in his second All-Star Game, gave up three hits and two runs to the first three batters, but then recorded three outs. The two hits weren’t particularly impressive, but they did enough damage to take some shine off the Skubal mystique.
The Tigers’ bats did not impress.
Gleyber Torres was 0-for-2; Riley Greene went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts; Javier Báez was 0-for-2; and Zach McKinstry was 0-for-1.
Pitcher Casey Mize gave up a solo home run to Corbin Carroll of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the sixth.
Sports Illustrated’s Sam Connon wrote: “The group of Tigers hardly looked like All-Stars.”
The 2025 Tigers are the first team in MLB history to have 6 or more players play in the All-Star Game but have none of them get a hit at the plate or toss a scoreless outing on the mound. pic.twitter.com/rShQS2v5I9
— OptaSTATS (@OptaSTATS) July 16, 2025
