HOUSTON --  Tarik Skubal kept up his stellar season with a sensational playoff debut and the Detroit Tigers got to Framber Valdez early in a 3-1 win over the Houston Astros in their American League Wild Card Series opener Tuesday. The Tigers, swept in the AL Division Series in their last trip to the playoffs in 2014, got their first postseason win since Game 4 the 2013 AL Championship Series against the  Boston Red Sox. Down 3-0 entering the ninth, Houston scored on Yainer Diaz's RBI single and had the bases loaded when Jason Heyward hit a game-ending lineout against Beau Brieske. Game 2 of the best-of-three series is Wednesday in Houston. Skubal, the AL pitching Triple Crown winner, gave up only four singles and walked one in six innings. About the only hard hit by the Astros off him was one that hit him -- the left-hander was struck on his right wrist by Diaz's second-inning line drive. He became the first...