Detroit Tigers’ ace Tarik Skubal has a chance to put his stamp in franchise history on Friday night as their all-time great playoff performer. Through five playoff starts, the flame-throwing southpaw holds a 2.14 ERA so he’s already well on his way past Justin Verlander, though JV’s work in the 2013 postseason remains pretty close to untouchable as a single season run. We’ll leave Mickey Lolich out of this, as there just weren’t many opportunities for postseason starts in those days until the playoff expansions began. Heading into a winner take all Game 5 at T-Mobile Park against he Seattle Mariners, Skubal is one more strong start from separating him as the top postseason performer since the playoffs expanded to include the divisional round back in 1994.

Of course history can come later.

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