White Sox 5, Tigers 1: That’s more like it

The White Sox (21-57) played one of their best games of the season to even up the series against the Tigers (35-41).

There was not much traffic on the base paths in the early portion of this game. The Tigers appeared to have a bit of life with two outs in the first, when Drew Thorpe allowed a double and issued a walk. However, Thorpe pitched around this threat by getting Gio Urshela to fly out softly.

Tigers starter Kenta Maeda was also in control early on. Through three innings, nobody on the White Sox had gotten into scoring position. That changed rather quickly in the fourth, however, when Luis Robert Jr. doubled off of the wall in the right field corner. Robert proceeded to swipe third,…