Cleveland — Then there were none.
Tarik Skubal, the last uninjured member of the Tigers’ original starting rotation, limped off the field after pitching five scoreless innings against the Guardians of Cleveland Friday night.
He was drilled in the lower part of his left leg with a line drive struck with an exit velocity of 104 mph by left fielder Ernie Clement. The third out of the fifth inning was made off the carom and when Skubal finally got back to the dugout, he signaled to acting manager George Lombard that he was done.
It’s been a ruinous run of bad fortune for the Tigers, and most of it centered on the pitching staff.