Tarik Skubal scattered five hits over seven innings and Spencer Torkelson homered twice and drove in four runs to lead the Detroit Tigers to a 7-0 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday night in Anaheim, Calif.
Skubal (6-5) struck out nine and didn’t walk a batter while allowing only one runner past first base. He left after throwing 87 pitches, 60 for strikes.
Colt Keith went 4-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored, and Kevin McGonigle had a double among his two hits and two runs scored for Detroit, which won for the 11th time in its last 14 games.
Logan O’Hoppe had two hits for Los Angeles, which lost its fourth straight game and for the 12th time in its last 14 games. It was also a major league-leading 61st loss for the Angels.
Grayson Rodriguez (3-3), who entered the contest with a 2-0 record and 0.60 ERA in three career starts against the Tigers, suffered the loss, allowing six runs on seven hits in four innings. He walked one and struck out three.
Detroit jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning. McGonigle led off with a double to center, Dillon Dingler was hit by a pitch and Keith then drove in McGonigle with a single to center. After Riley Greene struck out, Torkelson drilled a three-run homer 415 feet to left-center.
The Tigers extended the advantage to 6-0 in the second inning when James Outman and McGonigle opened with singles and Dingler was hit by a pitch again to load the bases. Keith and Greene then followed with back-to-back sacrifice flies to drive in Outman and McGonigle.
Torkelson made it 7-0 when he led off the fifth with his second homer of the game and 18th of the season, a 420-drive over the center field fence off left-handed reliever Brent Suter.
