Chicago White Sox vs Detroit Tigers Match Player Stats On Jun 04, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Jun 4, 2017

DETROIT -- Justin Upton's three-run home run to left field with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning Sunday gave the Detroit Tigers a 7-4 victory over the Chicago White Sox and a sweep of their three-game weekend series.

Losing reliever David Robertson (3-2) hit Nicholas Castellanos with a pitch to open the ninth and he reached second when second baseman Yolmer Sanchez bobbled a potential double-play grounder by Miguel Cabrera, settling for the out at first.

J.D. Martinez was walked intentionally before Upton drove a 1-2 curveball into the left-field seats to give Detroit its fourth win in a row and send Chicago down to its fifth straight loss.

Justin Wilson (2-1) gained the victory for a scoreless ninth, giving up a leadoff walk plus a single before wriggling out of the jam.

The White Sox tied the score, 4-4, with three doubles off Tigers reliever Alex Wilson in the eighth, the hits belonging to Todd Frazier, Tim Anderson and Devan Smith. Pinch hitter Leury Garcia singled to center off reliever Daniel Stumpf to move Smith to third but Shane Greene ended the inning by getting a strikeout and a forceout.

Upton led off a three-run Tigers' sixth with a single, chasing reliever Anthony Swarzak, and scooted to third when Chris Beck made a wild pickoff attempt. Hicks doubled to center to create a 2-2 tie and then stole third - after pinch hitter Victor Martinez was walked intentionally - when third baseman Frazier went in too far on a failed bunt attempt by pinch hitter Alex Presley.

Presley got Hicks in with an RBI grounder to second that Yolmer Sanchez missed for an error. Jose Iglesias made it 4-2 when he grounded into a forceout to score pinch-runner Andrew Romine from third, which he reached on the error by Sanchez.

Detroit cut the deficit to 2-1 when J.D. Martinez belted his 10th home run of the season with one out in the fourth off White Sox starter David Holmberg.

Chicago got a one-out double plus a two-out single by Avisail Garcia to take a 1-0 lead in the first, but left the bases loaded in both of the first two innings.

Frazier touched Justin Verlander for his eighth home run to lead off the third and after a four-pitch walk the Detroit veteran was removed from the game with right groin tightness, trailing 2-0.

Verlander struck out the first batter he faced to make it 327 straight starts in which he's had at least one, eighth longest such streak since at least 1913. He walked three, struck out three and gave up six hits.

NOTES: Detroit C James McCann (right hand cut) and 2B Ian Kinsler (left hamstring) are on track to be activated off the disabled list on Tuesday. ... RHP James Shields of Chicago allowed three runs (one earned) in four innings of his first rehab start Saturday for Triple-A Charlotte. ... Tigers DH Victor Martinez has been dealing with a sore left elbow that bothers him most batting right-handed so manager Brad Ausmus kept him out of the starting lineup against White Sox LHP David Holmberg.