Dodgers are giving angry Tigers fans more ammo regarding Tarik Skubal argument

The Tigers' season has been over for about a week now, but four teams are still fighting to keep theirs alive. Through Thursday, the Mariners and Blue Jays are tied at two games apiece in the ALCS, and the Dodgers are up 3-0 against the Brewers in the NLCS.

The Dodgers' domination is a surprise to no one, really, but they do have flaws, the greatest of which is undoubtedly their bullpen. Still, LA has found an infuriating loophole: they just avoid the bullpen, sometimes altogether.

In Game 1, Blake Snell gave the Dodgers eight one-hit innings. In Game 2, Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a complete game and only gave up a a single run (on a first-pitch homer).

It had Tigers fans looking even more unfavorably upon the decision that might've lost Detroit the ALDS — taking Tarik Skubal out of Game 5 after six innings, only for Kyle Finnegan and Tyler Holton to allow the Mariners' tying run to score almost immediately in the seventh.

Snell threw 103 pitches in his eight innings; Yamamoto got up to 111 in his complete game. Skubal was already at 99 through six innings, but could AJ Hinch have pushed him for even just one more inning?

Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto's feats for Dodgers have Tigers fans even angrier about Tarik Skubal's exit in ALDS Game 5

It seemed like a mutual decision between Hinch and Skubal to take him out after six. Hinch said it was an "easy decision."

"After the fifth, I checked in on him how he was doing physically and emotionally, and we both knew that he had one left. You know, he emptied his tank and obviously was emotional coming off the mound, and I think that signals exactly where we were in the game. He gave us everything he could."

Still, Tigers couldn't help but think about Justin Verlander at his peak with the Tigers; he went up to 126 in his rookie season, 129 the next year, 130 the next, and so on. Even this year, his age-42 season, he got up to 121 pitches.

There are health considerations, of course, and if Skubal really didn't feel like he had it after the sixth, there was always a chance that the seventh would've ended up worse than Finnegan and Holton left it. Still, it's impossible not to wonder what could've been as we watch the Dodgers burn their rotation (strategically, of course) in order to avoid their weakest link).