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Yermin Mercedes
snapped an 0-for-25 skid with a walk-off single against Jose
Cisnero and Yasmani Grandal smacked a pair of solo home runs as
the host Chicago White Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers 9-8 on
Friday night for their seventh win in nine games.
Chicago led 6-1 and 7-2, but the Tigers rallied to grab a late
advantage with a six-run seventh inning.
Jonathan Schoop kept Detroit afloat, going 4-for-4 with two home
runs and five RBIs and finishing a triple short of the cycle.
Grandal and Nick Madrigal both had two hits to lead the White
Sox attack. Madrigal also hit a solo home run for Chicago, which
has drilled seven solo shots in the first two games of the
series.
Tigers starter Spencer Turnbull pitched effectively for four
innings, scattering one run on two hits with zero walks and four
strikeouts while using just 56 pitches.
Moments after striking out Mercedes to complete a 1-2-3 fourth,
however, Turnbull sought Tigers athletic trainer Doug Teter upon
entering the Detroit dugout. The Tigers announced Turnbull, the
owner of a no-hitter at Seattle on May 18, was leaving the game
with right forearm tightness.
Detroit came unglued after that, committing three errors in a
five-run Chicago fifth.
White Sox left-hander Dallas Keuchel spaced two runs on five
hits in six innings with one walk and three strikeouts.
Cisnero (0-3) took the loss, allowing one run on two hits in one
inning. Liam Hendriks (2-1) was the winner, retiring the final
Tigers hitter in the top of the ninth.
Detroit entered the top of the seventh trailing 7-2, but emerged
with an 8-7 lead behind an outburst against Chicago relievers
Codi Heuer and Evan Marshall. After Heuer sandwiched two walks
around a double to load the bases, Marshall surrendered an RBI
sacrifice fly to Robbie Grossman before Schoop drilled a
three-run homer to left center.
Three batters later, Eric Haase delivered his fifth home run in
17 games with the Tigers, a two-run shot that provided a one-run
lead. Haase had two hits, while Willi Castro added three.
Chicago tied the game at 8 in the bottom half on Grandal's
second homer of the night.
The Tigers have lost three of four following a three-game home
sweep of the New York Yankees last weekend.
--Field Level Media
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