Spencer Thorkelson went 3-for-5 with a three-run homer, Parker Meadows also homered, Ty Madden pitched well in his major league debut and the Detroit Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 6-3 on Monday.
Detroit beat Chicago, 13-6, and defeated the major league-leading White Sox, who have 101 losses, for a fourth straight game.
The Tigers defeated the White Sox 33-13 in the series.
A five-run seventh inning gave Detroit momentum. Meadows started the rally with a leadoff homer against Jared Schuster (1-3). Jace Jung added a run with a single in the bottom half and Torkelson, celebrating his 25th birthday, hit a three-run homer to center field off Justin Anderson.
Eight Tigers starters got a hit, with Colt Keith and Jung both having two hits and one RBI.
Dominique Fletcher and Brooks Baldwin had two hits each for Chicago, and Andrew Benintendi added a solo home run.
Shawn Guenther (1-0) pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings to earn the win, while Tyler Holton pitched a perfect ninth inning to earn his fifth save.
Chicago took advantage of Detroit’s shaky defense to take a 1-0 lead in the first inning. Luis Robert Jr. walked Madden with one out, advanced to third on a Torkelson error at first base, and scored on Andrew Vaughn’s sacrifice fly.
Vaughn hit a run-scoring single with two outs in the third inning to put the White Sox up 2-0. Vaughn has now recorded two RBI in three consecutive games.
White Sox starter Davis Martin allowed runners in three of the first four innings but got through unscathed.
Trouble was inevitable for Detroit in the fifth inning, but the damage was still minimal: After striking out the first two batters, Martin allowed three consecutive singles, the last of which was Keith’s hit to score the Tigers’ first run.
With two runners in scoring position, Martin struck out Jung after 10 pitches to get out of the jam.
Martin gave up seven hits and one run in five innings, walking one and striking out four.
Madden threw 52 of his 87 pitches for strikes, giving up two runs, one earned, four hits, three walks and two strikeouts in five innings.
Schuster gave up four runs and four hits in 1 1/3 innings.
Keith extended his hitting streak to nine games.
–Field Level Media
