The Baltimore Orioles turned a game that looked lost into a 10-9 win over the Detroit Tigers in 12 innings on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, erasing a seven-run deficit and leaving Comerica Park stunned. Colton Cowser delivered the winning RBI single off Drew Sommers after Baltimore had already clawed back from the brink twice.
The result mattered because it came in a game that already had two milestones attached to it. Tarik Skubal struck out Taylor Ward on the first at-bat of the night for his 1,000th career strikeout, then pitched 6⅔ innings and allowed only three runs on four hits before the Tigers’ lead slipped away. Spencer Torkelson later added his own marker with a 100th career home run, but that only brought another tie, not a finish.
Skubal became the 17th pitcher and fourth left-hander in Tigers franchise history to reach 1,000 strikeouts, and he did it in 857 innings. He left with the kind of line most starters would take on a night like this, but the Tigers still could not hold a seven-run advantage. Baltimore scored five runs in the seventh inning after Kyle Finnegan failed to get the final out, with Jeremiah Jackson walking and Jackson Holliday following with a single before Taylor Ward drove in two more on his hit. That inning turned the game.
The Orioles were not done there. Coby Mayo hit a triple off the center-field wall in the eighth to drive in two runs, and Yohel Pozo and Jackson Holliday gave Baltimore its first lead in the top of the 11th. Torkelson answered with a two-run homer in the bottom half to tie it again, but the Tigers could not close the door a second time. The Orioles had scored all seven comeback runs in 13 at-bats, and every one of them came while the Tigers were trying to protect a lead built on three runs in the second, two in the fifth and two in the sixth.
That collapse leaves the Tigers at 51-58, two losses in three games against Baltimore in the series and 3½ games behind in the American League wild-card standings. For Skubal, the milestone came in a start that was supposed to be watched for his arm and his future, not for a blown lead behind him. The question now is not whether he reached the next number. It is whether a night like this pushes Detroit any closer to deciding what to do before the deadline.
