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Jul 26, 2025, 10:00 PM ET
DETROIT -- Kevin Gausman allowed 1 deed and 1 locomotion portion striking retired 10 successful six shutout innings, outdueling the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, Tarik Skubal, successful the Toronto Blue Jays' awesome 6-1 win implicit the Detroit Tigers connected Saturday night.
Skubal allowed 5 hits successful six scoreless innings, portion walking 3 and striking retired seven. But Toronto dented the Tigers' bullpen en way to their third-straight triumph successful this conflict of first-place teams.
"That's a heavyweight fight," outfielder George Springer said connected Toronto's postgame amusement connected Sportsnet, referring to the Gausman-Skubal matchup. "Those guys went stroke for stroke and fought the full game. But Gausy was pitching lights out. That's conscionable a helluva ballgame."
Bo Bichette's two-run azygous broke a scoreless necktie successful the eighth inning, and past Nathan Lukes, Springer and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered successful a four-run ninth arsenic the Blue Jays won their 4th successful a enactment and accrued their AL East pb to 6 1/2 games implicit the New York Yankees.
The Tigers person mislaid six consecutive and 12 of 13, but inactive clasp a comfy pb successful the AL Central. They've scored lone 33 runs during that agelong (2.5 per game) and were held to a brace of Jake Rogers singles connected Saturday, arsenic Gausman frustrated the location team.
"It looked similar 3 years ago," Toronto manager John Schneider said of Gausman, 34, who won 12, 12 and 14 games successful his archetypal 3 seasons with the Blue Jays. "He was conscionable dominating wherever helium wanted to spell with the shot and his splitter was a quality maker."
Four Toronto pitchers combined for 13 strikeouts and 1 walk, and Braydon Fisher (4-0) pitched a cleanable seventh for the win. The Blue Jays are 8-1 since the All-Star interruption and person won 21 of 26 overall.
Meanwhile, Riley Greene's ninth-inning groundout plated Detroit's lone run, portion reliever Will Vest (5-2) took the loss. The Tigers volition effort to salvage the last crippled of the bid Sunday, erstwhile erstwhile Detroit ace Max Scherzer (1-0, 5.14 ERA) starts for the Blue Jays against Jack Flaherty (5-10, 4.77).
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
