Chicago White Sox vs Detroit Tigers Match Player Stats On Sep 16, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Sep 16, 2017

DETROIT -- Nicky Delmonico and Matt Davidson hit solo home runs and Jose Abreu moved closer to another 100-RBI season with a run-scoring single plus a sacrifice fly Saturday night to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 10-4 victory over the Detroit Tigers.

Reynaldo Lopez (2-3) allowed four runs on five hits in seven innings for the win. He registered his only strikeout in the seventh in pushing the Tigers to their seventh loss in eight games while moving the White Sox to within a game of Detroit for fourth place in the American League Central.

Chris Volstad gave up two hits but no runs in the eighth and closed out the game with a scoreless ninth.

Yolmer Sanchez's sacrifice fly in the seventh followed by a sharp RBI groundout to short by Yoan Moncada -- with the infield in -- bumped the White Sox's lead to 10-4. Chicago pounded out 17 hits off five Detroit pitchers.

Mikie Mahtook lined an RBI triple to right-center in the fourth for Detroit to make it 7-4, but Chicago countered in the fifth with a home run by Davidson, his 25th, for an 8-4 lead.

Singles by Alen Hanson and Moncada plus a sacrifice fly by Abreu padded the lead to 7-3 in the fourth. Abreu now has 97 RBIs to close in on his fourth straight season of 25 home runs and 100 RBIs to begin his career.

James McCann hit a two-run triple to right off Lopez in the second and scored on a sacrifice fly to left by Tyler Collins to cut Chicago's lead to 6-3 in the second.

The White Sox scored four times with two out in the second to take a 6-0 lead and chase starter Myles Jaye (1-2). Tim Anderson doubled and scored on a single by Hanson. Yolmer Sanchez walked, Moncada hit an RBI single to right and Abreu grounded an RBI single to left.

A throwing error by new Tigers right fielder Nicholas Castellanos set Sanchez up to score on Jaye's misplaced throw to second in a failed attempt to nap Moncada advancing.

Delmonico's two-run homer, his eighth of the season, followed a two-out walk to Abreu in the first and got Chicago off to a 2-0 start.

Jaye lasted 1 2/3 innings, giving up six runs (one unearned), five hits and two walks.

Anderson had four hits for Chicago, equaling his career best.

NOTES: CF Adam Engel didn't start Saturday night as the White Sox work on changes to his swing to get his batting average up above .184. ... Tigers RHP Jordan Zimmermann is scheduled for a game-style bullpen Monday in hopes of making a couple more starts this season. He says the shot to ease neck pain worked well. ... Chicago relievers are 11 strikeouts shy of setting a club record of 480, beating the old mark set in 2011. ... Detroit DH Victor Martinez has returned to his Florida home following a successful heart ablation procedure earlier this month. "He was in good spirits," manager Brad Ausmus said. "He said he felt good."