After a very successful road trip, the Detroit Tigers return home for the first time in almost two weeks to take on the Texas Rangers, beginning a three-game series on Friday night.

The Detroit Tigers have been one of the surprises of the MLB season, and now rank highly according to many expert's power rankings.

The Detroit Tigers had the best record in baseball at 26-13 as of Friday night after a 2-1 win over the Texas Rangers at Comerica Park in downtown Detroit, an exciting development for fans who haven't witnessed a World Series championship since 1984.

Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal has a 50-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio with a 0.98 ERA in his last six starts, spanning 37 innings.

Skubal recorded those 12 strikeouts Friday thanks to an incredible 32 swings and misses. That's 32 swings and misses on 96 total pitches, so exactly one-third of his pitches were whiffs, and only 59 swings.