NEW YORK — Pitchers' duel? What pitchers' duel.

It was billed as a battle between the reigning American League Cy Young winner and the leader in the clubhouse for the award this season.

Tarik Skubal held up his end of the deal.

But the Tigers spoiled the storyline for right-hander Cam Schlittler and the Yankees, clubbing five home runs in a series-winning 9-3 romp Tuesday at Yankee Stadium.

The five homers brought the Tigers’ total for the month of June to a franchise record-tying 49. It’s a feat that’s been done just one other time, by the 1937 Tigers.

That’s the buzzsaw Schlittler walked into Tuesday.

In his previous 100 innings, Schlittler had allowed six home runs. He came into the game with an American League-low 1.62 ERA and riding a 15-inning scoreless streak.

Three batters into the game, Kerry Carpenter sent a long fly ball 410 feet to center. Spencer Jones got back to the wall and got his glove on the ball. But it bounced out and over the wall. Carpenter's 13th homer.

Next up, Riley Greene, fresh from his first off day of the season, slammed 97-mph sinker 424 feet into the second deck in right field.

After Colt Keith singled, Spencer Torkelson battled Schlittler for 10 pitches. The 10th pitch, a cutter, he drove 405 feet into the seats in left. It was his14th.

The Tigers worked him for 36 pitches and produced four runs in the first inning, tying the most he’s allowed this season.

And they weren’t done. Greene launched a 97-mph four-seamer 404 feet over the wall in right-center, a two-run homer in the third. Those were homers 10 and 11 for Greene.

Schlittler was out of the game after allowing a leadoff double to Dillon Dingler in the fifth, his ERA jumping to 2.08.

James Outman capped the scoring, swatting a left-on-left, three-run home run off reliever Ryan Yarbrough.

As Schlittler was leaving, Skubal was just heating up. He danced off the mound after striking out the side in the fourth inning.

He was in full-on Cy Young form, allowing one hit and one earned run with nine strikeouts over six innings.

His four-seam fastball and sinker sat at 97 mph and hit 99-plus. And off those pitches, he used his full mix, change-up, slider and even more curveballs than usual.

One of his best sequences of the game came against lefty Ben Rice. Rice had the lone hit off Skubal, a solo home run in the first inning.

When he came up again in the fourth, Skubal started him off with a 97-mph sinker, then got an ugly swing at a curveball. He followed that up with his firmest pitch of the night, a 99.6-mph sinker up in the zone.

That set up the chase punch-out on another curveball.

Skubal struck out seven of nine hitters between the third and fifth innings.

The Yankees posted an unearned run against him in the sixth inning. Skubal hit Max Schuemann with a pitch to start the inning. No. 9 hitter Ali Sanchez hit a ground ball to shortstop Zach McKinstry’s left, which looked like a double-play ball, except it got under McKinstry’s glove.

Skubal responded by getting Paul Goldschmidt to hit into a 6-4-3 double play, scoring the run but ending any threat. Goldschmidt, who hit two homers off Skubal in Detroit last week, went 0 for 3 with a strikeout.

The Yankees, who have lost six straight, pushed across a two-out run against Tyler Holton in the ninth on a bloop single by Jasson Dominguez.

The Tigers (37-49) finish June with a 15-11 record and still sit nine games back in the Central Division.

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