Game Report - June 4, 2025 - Tigers 5, White Sox 4
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Steve Bielawski
Jun 5, 2025, 12:35:52 PM6/5/25
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> Detroit Tigers 5, Chicago White Sox 4 - final
The Tigers won big on Monday, then lost big on Tuesday. On Wednesday, once the game got underway, the Tigers scored four runs in the first inning, then let the White Sox tie the score by the fifth. The Tigers got another run in the eighth, and kept the lead after that.
In the top of the first, Gleyber Torres doubled, Andy Ibanez doubled, Riley Greene singled to drive in Mr. Torres and Mr. Ibanez, Spencer Torkelson walked, Dillon Dingler singled to drive in Mr. Greene, and Javy Baez singled to drive in Mr. Torkelson. That gave the Tigers a 4-0 lead.
In the bottom of the third, Michael A. Taylor walked, and scored on a double by Mike Tauchman, who then scored on a double by Chase Meidroth.
Andrew Benintendi led off the bottom of the fourth with a double, Tim Elko singled, and Josh Rojas hit a sacrifice fly to drive in Mr. Benintendi.
In the fifth, Korey Lee doubled, went to third on a single by Chase Meidroth, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Andrew Benintendi.
Wenceel Perez led off the top of the eighth with a double, and scored on what was generously called a double by Colt Keith. (The ball fell between two White Sox fielders.)
The Tigers have two of the three games in this series. This afternoon, they will have Casey Mize start against 25-year-old righty Sean Burke. Tarik Skubal has had five days of rest, but they want him to face the Cubs at Comerica Park tomorrow.
> Detroit Tigers AB R H RBI HR BB K AVG OBP SLG
> G. Torres 2B 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 .270 .383 .404
Doubled to left in the first and scored.
> A. Ibanez 3B 4 1 1 0 0 0 1 .217 .298 .326
Doubled to right in the first and scored.
> K. Carpenter PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .272 .301 .510
> P. Meadows CF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250 .455 .625
> R. Greene LF 5 1 3 2 0 0 0 .283 .336 .506
Singled to left in the first
to drive in Mr. Torres and Mr. Ibanez;
he would soon score as well.
Doubled to right in the fifth.
Singled to right in the ninth.
> S. Torkelson 1B 4 1 0 0 0 1 1 .231 .341 .495
Walked in the first and scored.
> W. Perez RF 4 1 1 0 0 0 1 .296 .345 .630
Was hit by a pitch in the fifth.
Doubled to centre in the eighth and scored.
> D. Dingler C 3 0 1 1 0 1 1 .296 .328 .467
Singled up the middle in the first
to drive in Mr. Greene.
Walked in the fifth.
> C. Keith DH 4 0 1 1 0 0 1 .244 .332 .390
Was safe on a force out of Mr. Dingler at second base in the first.
Doubled to left in the eighth
to drive in Mr. Perez.
> J. Baez CF-SS 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 .270 .301 .427
Singled to left in the first
to drive in Mr. Torkelson.
> Z. McKinstry SS-3B 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 .266 .360 .413
Singled to left in the fourth.
Walked in the eighth.
> team 37 5 10 5 0 3 7
Just enough runs to win this game.
> 2B: Torres (9, Shuster); Ibáñez (4, Shuster); Pérez (3, Eisert);
> Greene (14, Vasil); Keith (10, Leasure)
> RBI: Báez (30), Greene 2 (42), Dingler (26), Keith (18)
> 2-Out RBI: Báez, J.
> Team LOB: 9
> Team RISP: 5-13 (Báez 1-2, Torres 0-1, Ibáñez 1-1, McKinstry 0-1, Pérez 0-1,
> Greene 1-1, Dingler 1-2, Torkelson 0-1, Keith 1-3)
> DP: 1 (McKinstry-Torres-Torkelson)
> E: McKinstry (3, throw)
> Chicago White Sox AB R H RBI HR BB K AVG OBP SLG
> M. Tauchman DH 3 1 1 1 0 1 2 .340 .453 .585
> C. Meidroth SS 4 0 3 1 0 0 0 .302 .382 .360
> M. Vargas 3B 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 .239 .316 .417
Contained.
> A. Benintendi LF 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 .244 .313 .425
> J. Palacios RF 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 .202 .300 .316
Curtailed.
> A. Slater PH-RF 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 .270 .325 .541
Completed the 0-fer from the number 5 spot.
> T. Elko 1B 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 .171 .194 .429
> J. Rojas 2B 3 0 0 1 0 0 2 .145 .241 .171
Collared.
Three or four White Sox players were aboard the 0-fer Express.
> M. Taylor CF 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 .200 .276 .364
> K. Lee C 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 .250 .300 .357
> team 31 4 7 4 0 2 7
Four runs were enough to tie the game, but not enough to win.
> 2B: Tauchman (5, Gipson-Long); Benintendi (3, Gipson-Long); Lee (3, Brebbia)
> RBI: Tauchman (8), Benintendi (23), Rojas (4), Meidroth (7)
> 2Out RBI: Tauchman; Meidroth.
> SF: Benintendi; Rojas
> GIDP: Meidroth
> Team LOB: 4
> Team RISP: 3-6 (Slater 0-1, Palacios 0-1, Vargas 0-1, Elko 1-1, Meidroth 2-2)
> CS: Meidroth (3, 2nd base by Gipson-Long/Dingler)
> Picked Off: Meidroth (1st base, Gipson-Long)
> E: Meidroth (3, throw)
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> Detroit Tigers (41-22, 20-14 road) 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 5 10 1
> Chicago White Sox (19-43, 13-17 home) 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 - 4 7 1
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The White Sox tied the game, but never took the lead.
> Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB K HR PC-ST ERA
> S. Gipson-Long 3.2 5 3 3 1 3 0 70-50 7.36
Since he is just back from the injured list, they kept him to 70 pitches.
He got tired towards the end.
> J. Brebbia 0.2 2 1 1 1 0 0 19-9 5.51
He stranded the inherited runner in the fourth,
but had a bit of trouble of his own in the fifth.
> T. Holton (B, 3) 1.2 0 0 0 0 1 0 18-12 4.13
Allowed an inherited runner to score the tying run,
but stranded two other inherited runners.
> W. Vest (W, 5-0) 2.0 0 0 0 0 3 0 18-14 1.80
Did a good job on the mound,
and he was in the right spot to get the win.
> T. Kahnle (S, 8) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7-5 1.35
Did his job.
> team 9.0 7 4 4 2 7 0 132-90
> First-pitch strikes/Batters Faced:
> Gipson-Long 12/16;
> Brebbia 4/5; Holton 3/5; Vest 5/6; Kahnle 3/3
> Called strikes-Swinging strikes-Foul balls-In play strikes:
> Gipson-Long-10-12-16-12;
> Brebbia-2-2-1-4; Holton-4-2-2-4; Vest-6-4-1-3; Kahnle-0-1-1-3
> Ground Balls-Fly Balls:
> Gipson-Long 1-6;
> Brebbia 0-2; Holton 1-3; Vest 2-1; Kahnle 1-2
> Game Scores: S Gipson-Long 41
> Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB K HR PC-ST ERA
> J. Shuster 1.0 5 4 4 1 1 0 32-22 8.04
> M. Vasil 3.2 2 0 0 0 3 0 58-34 1.89
> S. Wilson 1.1 0 0 0 1 1 0 28-19 2.00
Did their jobs.
> B. Eisert (L, 2-1) 1.0 1 1 1 0 1 0 19-12 4.61
A bit of bad luck on defense accounted for the run.
> J. Leasure 1.0 1 0 0 1 0 0 18-12 4.50
> C. Freeman 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 17-13 5.40
Did their jobs.
> team 9.0 10 5 5 3 7 0 172-112
> HBP: Pérez (by Vasil)
> First-pitch strikes/Batters Faced:
> S. Wilson 4/5; Freeman 4/4; Eisert 1/4;
> Vasil 3/14; Shuster 7/9; Leasure 4/5
> Called strikes-Swinging strikes-Foul balls-In play strikes:
> S. Wilson-1-3-12-3; Freeman-5-0-5-3; Eisert-2-2-5-3;
> Vasil-9-4-11-10; Shuster-4-2-9-7; Leasure-3-1-4-4
> Ground Balls-Fly Balls:
> S. Wilson 3-0; Freeman 1-1; Eisert 0-2;
> Vasil 3-5; Shuster 2-0; Leasure 1-2
> Game Scores: J Shuster 27
> Venue: Rate Field, Chicago, Illinois
> Attendance: 12,381
> Weather: 59 degrees, party cloudy
> Wind: 6 m.p.h., left to right
> Time of Game: 2:57
This game report is brought to you by the Shedd Aquarium.
It looked really wet at Rate Field yesterday.
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Keith hits tiebreaking double in 8th as Tigers regroup to beat White Sox 5-4
By AP
Jun 5, 2025, 12:24 am
CHICAGO -- — Colt Keith hit a tiebreaking RBI double in the eighth inning to help the major league-leading Detroit Tigers beat the lowly Chicago White Sox 5-4 on a rainy Wednesday night.
The Tigers regrouped after blowing a four-run lead and bounced back from an 8-1 pounding the previous day.
Wenceel Pérez was ruled safe at second with a leadoff double to center against Brandon Eisert (2-1) in the eighth after a successful replay challenge by Detroit. He scored with one out on Colt Keith’s bloop double down the left field line that landed just fair beyond a sliding left fielder Andrew Benintendi’s glove, making it 5-4.
Will Vest (5-0) pitched two scoreless innings, and Tommy Kahnle worked the ninth for his eighth save in 11 chances.
The Tigers tagged White Sox starter Jared Shuster for four runs in the first after a 95-minute delay. Riley Greene drove in two with a single and scored in the inning.
Chicago’s Mike Tauchman hit an RBI double and scored in the third. Benintendi doubled leading off the fourth and came around when Josh Rojas chased Tigers starter Sawyer Gipson-Long with a sacrifice fly. Benintendi tied it at 4 in the fifth with a bases-loaded sac fly against Tyler Holton.
Gipson-Long lasted 3 2/3 innings in his first start in nearly two years, allowing three runs and five hits. The 27-year-old right-hander missed last season with elbow and hip injuries that required surgery.
Shuster, the opener in a bullpen game, gave up four runs and five hits in one inning.
Key moment
Both teams loaded the bases in the fifth. The Tigers came away empty-handed when Steven Wilson struck out Colt Keith. After Benintendi tied it in the bottom half, pinch hitter Austin Slater flied to center, ending the inning.
Key stat
The Tigers have won 20 of 25 against Chicago.
Up next
The Tigers send RHP Casey Mize (6-1, 2.82 ERA) to the mound Thursday, while the White Sox go with Sean Burke (3-6, 4.20).
The Tigers won big on Monday, then lost big on Tuesday. On Wednesday, once the game got underway, the Tigers scored four runs in the first inning, then let the White Sox tie the score by the fifth. The Tigers got another run in the eighth, and kept the lead after that.
In the top of the first, Gleyber Torres doubled, Andy Ibanez doubled, Riley Greene singled to drive in Mr. Torres and Mr. Ibanez, Spencer Torkelson walked, Dillon Dingler singled to drive in Mr. Greene, and Javy Baez singled to drive in Mr. Torkelson. That gave the Tigers a 4-0 lead.
In the bottom of the third, Michael A. Taylor walked, and scored on a double by Mike Tauchman, who then scored on a double by Chase Meidroth.
Andrew Benintendi led off the bottom of the fourth with a double, Tim Elko singled, and Josh Rojas hit a sacrifice fly to drive in Mr. Benintendi.
In the fifth, Korey Lee doubled, went to third on a single by Chase Meidroth, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Andrew Benintendi.
Wenceel Perez led off the top of the eighth with a double, and scored on what was generously called a double by Colt Keith. (The ball fell between two White Sox fielders.)
The Tigers have two of the three games in this series. This afternoon, they will have Casey Mize start against 25-year-old righty Sean Burke. Tarik Skubal has had five days of rest, but they want him to face the Cubs at Comerica Park tomorrow.
> Detroit Tigers AB R H RBI HR BB K AVG OBP SLG
> G. Torres 2B 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 .270 .383 .404
Doubled to left in the first and scored.
> A. Ibanez 3B 4 1 1 0 0 0 1 .217 .298 .326
Doubled to right in the first and scored.
> K. Carpenter PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .272 .301 .510
> P. Meadows CF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250 .455 .625
> R. Greene LF 5 1 3 2 0 0 0 .283 .336 .506
Singled to left in the first
to drive in Mr. Torres and Mr. Ibanez;
he would soon score as well.
Doubled to right in the fifth.
Singled to right in the ninth.
> S. Torkelson 1B 4 1 0 0 0 1 1 .231 .341 .495
Walked in the first and scored.
> W. Perez RF 4 1 1 0 0 0 1 .296 .345 .630
Was hit by a pitch in the fifth.
Doubled to centre in the eighth and scored.
> D. Dingler C 3 0 1 1 0 1 1 .296 .328 .467
Singled up the middle in the first
to drive in Mr. Greene.
Walked in the fifth.
> C. Keith DH 4 0 1 1 0 0 1 .244 .332 .390
Was safe on a force out of Mr. Dingler at second base in the first.
Doubled to left in the eighth
to drive in Mr. Perez.
> J. Baez CF-SS 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 .270 .301 .427
Singled to left in the first
to drive in Mr. Torkelson.
> Z. McKinstry SS-3B 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 .266 .360 .413
Singled to left in the fourth.
Walked in the eighth.
> team 37 5 10 5 0 3 7
Just enough runs to win this game.
> 2B: Torres (9, Shuster); Ibáñez (4, Shuster); Pérez (3, Eisert);
> Greene (14, Vasil); Keith (10, Leasure)
> RBI: Báez (30), Greene 2 (42), Dingler (26), Keith (18)
> 2-Out RBI: Báez, J.
> Team LOB: 9
> Team RISP: 5-13 (Báez 1-2, Torres 0-1, Ibáñez 1-1, McKinstry 0-1, Pérez 0-1,
> Greene 1-1, Dingler 1-2, Torkelson 0-1, Keith 1-3)
> DP: 1 (McKinstry-Torres-Torkelson)
> E: McKinstry (3, throw)
> Chicago White Sox AB R H RBI HR BB K AVG OBP SLG
> M. Tauchman DH 3 1 1 1 0 1 2 .340 .453 .585
> C. Meidroth SS 4 0 3 1 0 0 0 .302 .382 .360
> M. Vargas 3B 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 .239 .316 .417
Contained.
> A. Benintendi LF 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 .244 .313 .425
> J. Palacios RF 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 .202 .300 .316
Curtailed.
> A. Slater PH-RF 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 .270 .325 .541
Completed the 0-fer from the number 5 spot.
> T. Elko 1B 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 .171 .194 .429
> J. Rojas 2B 3 0 0 1 0 0 2 .145 .241 .171
Collared.
Three or four White Sox players were aboard the 0-fer Express.
> M. Taylor CF 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 .200 .276 .364
> K. Lee C 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 .250 .300 .357
> team 31 4 7 4 0 2 7
Four runs were enough to tie the game, but not enough to win.
> 2B: Tauchman (5, Gipson-Long); Benintendi (3, Gipson-Long); Lee (3, Brebbia)
> RBI: Tauchman (8), Benintendi (23), Rojas (4), Meidroth (7)
> 2Out RBI: Tauchman; Meidroth.
> SF: Benintendi; Rojas
> GIDP: Meidroth
> Team LOB: 4
> Team RISP: 3-6 (Slater 0-1, Palacios 0-1, Vargas 0-1, Elko 1-1, Meidroth 2-2)
> CS: Meidroth (3, 2nd base by Gipson-Long/Dingler)
> Picked Off: Meidroth (1st base, Gipson-Long)
> E: Meidroth (3, throw)
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> Detroit Tigers (41-22, 20-14 road) 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 5 10 1
> Chicago White Sox (19-43, 13-17 home) 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 - 4 7 1
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The White Sox tied the game, but never took the lead.
> Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB K HR PC-ST ERA
> S. Gipson-Long 3.2 5 3 3 1 3 0 70-50 7.36
Since he is just back from the injured list, they kept him to 70 pitches.
He got tired towards the end.
> J. Brebbia 0.2 2 1 1 1 0 0 19-9 5.51
He stranded the inherited runner in the fourth,
but had a bit of trouble of his own in the fifth.
> T. Holton (B, 3) 1.2 0 0 0 0 1 0 18-12 4.13
Allowed an inherited runner to score the tying run,
but stranded two other inherited runners.
> W. Vest (W, 5-0) 2.0 0 0 0 0 3 0 18-14 1.80
Did a good job on the mound,
and he was in the right spot to get the win.
> T. Kahnle (S, 8) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7-5 1.35
Did his job.
> team 9.0 7 4 4 2 7 0 132-90
> First-pitch strikes/Batters Faced:
> Gipson-Long 12/16;
> Brebbia 4/5; Holton 3/5; Vest 5/6; Kahnle 3/3
> Called strikes-Swinging strikes-Foul balls-In play strikes:
> Gipson-Long-10-12-16-12;
> Brebbia-2-2-1-4; Holton-4-2-2-4; Vest-6-4-1-3; Kahnle-0-1-1-3
> Ground Balls-Fly Balls:
> Gipson-Long 1-6;
> Brebbia 0-2; Holton 1-3; Vest 2-1; Kahnle 1-2
> Game Scores: S Gipson-Long 41
> Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB K HR PC-ST ERA
> J. Shuster 1.0 5 4 4 1 1 0 32-22 8.04
> M. Vasil 3.2 2 0 0 0 3 0 58-34 1.89
> S. Wilson 1.1 0 0 0 1 1 0 28-19 2.00
Did their jobs.
> B. Eisert (L, 2-1) 1.0 1 1 1 0 1 0 19-12 4.61
A bit of bad luck on defense accounted for the run.
> J. Leasure 1.0 1 0 0 1 0 0 18-12 4.50
> C. Freeman 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 17-13 5.40
Did their jobs.
> team 9.0 10 5 5 3 7 0 172-112
> HBP: Pérez (by Vasil)
> First-pitch strikes/Batters Faced:
> S. Wilson 4/5; Freeman 4/4; Eisert 1/4;
> Vasil 3/14; Shuster 7/9; Leasure 4/5
> Called strikes-Swinging strikes-Foul balls-In play strikes:
> S. Wilson-1-3-12-3; Freeman-5-0-5-3; Eisert-2-2-5-3;
> Vasil-9-4-11-10; Shuster-4-2-9-7; Leasure-3-1-4-4
> Ground Balls-Fly Balls:
> S. Wilson 3-0; Freeman 1-1; Eisert 0-2;
> Vasil 3-5; Shuster 2-0; Leasure 1-2
> Game Scores: J Shuster 27
> Venue: Rate Field, Chicago, Illinois
> Attendance: 12,381
> Weather: 59 degrees, party cloudy
> Wind: 6 m.p.h., left to right
> Time of Game: 2:57
This game report is brought to you by the Shedd Aquarium.
It looked really wet at Rate Field yesterday.
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Keith hits tiebreaking double in 8th as Tigers regroup to beat White Sox 5-4
By AP
Jun 5, 2025, 12:24 am
CHICAGO -- — Colt Keith hit a tiebreaking RBI double in the eighth inning to help the major league-leading Detroit Tigers beat the lowly Chicago White Sox 5-4 on a rainy Wednesday night.
The Tigers regrouped after blowing a four-run lead and bounced back from an 8-1 pounding the previous day.
Wenceel Pérez was ruled safe at second with a leadoff double to center against Brandon Eisert (2-1) in the eighth after a successful replay challenge by Detroit. He scored with one out on Colt Keith’s bloop double down the left field line that landed just fair beyond a sliding left fielder Andrew Benintendi’s glove, making it 5-4.
Will Vest (5-0) pitched two scoreless innings, and Tommy Kahnle worked the ninth for his eighth save in 11 chances.
The Tigers tagged White Sox starter Jared Shuster for four runs in the first after a 95-minute delay. Riley Greene drove in two with a single and scored in the inning.
Chicago’s Mike Tauchman hit an RBI double and scored in the third. Benintendi doubled leading off the fourth and came around when Josh Rojas chased Tigers starter Sawyer Gipson-Long with a sacrifice fly. Benintendi tied it at 4 in the fifth with a bases-loaded sac fly against Tyler Holton.
Gipson-Long lasted 3 2/3 innings in his first start in nearly two years, allowing three runs and five hits. The 27-year-old right-hander missed last season with elbow and hip injuries that required surgery.
Shuster, the opener in a bullpen game, gave up four runs and five hits in one inning.
Key moment
Both teams loaded the bases in the fifth. The Tigers came away empty-handed when Steven Wilson struck out Colt Keith. After Benintendi tied it in the bottom half, pinch hitter Austin Slater flied to center, ending the inning.
Key stat
The Tigers have won 20 of 25 against Chicago.
Up next
The Tigers send RHP Casey Mize (6-1, 2.82 ERA) to the mound Thursday, while the White Sox go with Sean Burke (3-6, 4.20).
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