• The Detroit Tigers and Pittsburgh Pirates will play a split doubleheader on Thursday at Comerica Park.
• Game 1 starts at 1:10, with the finale at 5:40.
• Tarik Skubal will start Game 1 for the Tigers, with Game 2’s starter yet to be determined.

Fans who were hoping to see Tarik Skubal pitch for the Detroit Tigers will have to wait 18 hours or so.

A thunderstorm rolling through Michigan interrupted baseball activities at Comerica Park on Wednesday, June 18, with officials postponing the night’s matchup between the Tigers and the Pittsburgh Pirates to the following day.

A split doubleheader between the Tigers and the Pirates is set to take place Thursday, scheduled for 1:10 p.m. and 5:40 p.m. Skubal is now set to pitch Game 1 with the Tigers’ Game 2 starter yet to be determined.

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A left-handed matchup was set to take place on Wednesday, with the Pirates’ Andrew Heaney scheduled to pitch against Skubal.

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Baseball fans initially missed the chance to see a duel between Skubal and Pirates ace Paul Skenes, with the rotations separating the pitchers — listed as favorites to win the Cy Young Award in their respective leagues — by a day.

A Thursday doubleheader, would have allowed for that matchup to take place. Instead, the Pirates will stick with Heaney for Game 1 on Thursday.

Skenes, meanwhile, will start Game 2, against a Tigers starter yet to be named.

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The Tigers can bring up a player from the minors to serve as their 27th man, but said player can only appear in Thursday’s Game 1, and not the rescheduled nightcap of the doubleheader.

The Tigers beat the Pirates 7-3 in the first matchup on Tuesday, June 17. Detroit smacked four home runs on Tuesday, including getting two from Javier Báez

, who marked his 10th year of MLB service on Tuesday.

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