Tigers erase six-run deficit, score six in the eighth to beat White Sox, 11-8
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For most of Friday night, the Detroit Tigers looked like they were going to spend the rest of the game trying to recover from one bad inning. Instead, they continued a recent trend of getting contributions throughout the lineup and turned an 8-2 deficit into an 11-8 win over the Chicago White Sox.
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Andrew Sears' first inning got away from him quickly. After Detroit took a 1-0 lead when Colt Keith doubled and scored on a wild pitch, Chicago sent 10 batters to the plate in the bottom half. Two Detroit errors extended the inning, Colson Montgomery cleared the bases with a three-run double, and Miguel Vargas added another RBI double as the White Sox went ahead 6-1.Vargas' two-run homer off Beau Brieske in the third eventually pushed Chicago's lead to 8-2, but that was the last time the White Sox scored.
Detroit began working its way back in the fifth when Max Clark walked, Eduardo Valencia and Hao-Yu Lee singled, and Kevin McGonigle drove all three of them home with a triple to center. The Tigers had cut the deficit to 8-5 before Hagen Smith struck out Dillon Dingler, Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson to stop the inning.
Lee brought Detroit another run closer with an RBI double in the sixth, but the biggest inning came in the eighth. Valencia was hit by a pitch before Lee hit his 10th homer of the season to right field, tying the game at 8. McGonigle walked and eventually scored the go-ahead run when Dingler singled to right. Greene followed with a two-run homer, his 21st, giving the Tigers some breathing room at 11-8.
Riley Greene DEMOLISHES a 2-run homer and the Tigers have put up 5 runs in the 8th!
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What stood out was how many different pieces were involved. Lee finished with four hits, McGonigle drove in four runs, Valencia collected two hits and repeatedly found his way on base, and Clark reached twice and scored two runs. Dingler came off the bench and delivered the go-ahead hit after striking out in his first two plate appearances.
The pitching staff deserves some credit as well. After Chicago scored eight runs in the first three innings, Brant Hurter, Tyler Kinley, Drew Sommers and Kenley Jansen combined to keep the White Sox scoreless over the final six. Jansen retired the side in order in the ninth, striking out Munetaka Murakami to finish a game that looked considerably different two hours earlier.
It was messy early, but Detroit's lineup continued putting pressure on Chicago instead of treating an 8-2 deficit like the game was finished. On a night when the starting pitching and defense created an early hole, the offense and bullpen gave the Tigers enough time to climb completely out of it.