Jose Abreu homered for the fifth time in seven games and Miguel Gonzalez pitched into the seventh inning in his first start since coming off the disabled list as the Chicago White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 2-0 on Tuesday.The Tigers (75-63) had won two straight and six of seven.
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Miguel Gonzalez hadn’t pitched for the White Sox since leaving the second inning of the game on August 11 with a strained groin. The right-hander scattered six hits without issuing a free pass in the win. The Sox (66-72) were swept by the Tigers in Detroit last week and lost the first game of this series 5-3 in 11 innings Monday. He is expected to start Saturday against Baltimore.
-The Tigers got the win in Anibal Sanchez’s last start, September 2 against Kansas City. Three innings later, White Sox rookies teamed up for the other run. Gonzalez is 1-4 with a 9.00 ERA and.380 batting average against in eight career outings (six starts) versus the Tigers and has struggled against Cabrera (6-for-13, one homer).WALK-OFFS1.
“Gonzo was great”, manager Robin Ventura said.
Fortunately, Saltalamacchia hacked at a high cutter and popped out to first for the second out, and Tyler Collins then struck out swinging on three pitches to help Gonzalez notch just his third victory of the year. He was on the DL since August 5 for an aggravation of his previous neck injury. It was his second game-winning homer in two days after connecting in the eighth inning Sunday against Kansas City.
The Tigers had multiple chances to get runs in the early innings, but could not push across a run.
Abreu gave Gonzalez a little breathing room in the second inning when he crushed a 2-2 slider from Matt Boyd – the ninth pitch of the at-bat – for a solo homer.
Following that, JaCoby Jones pinch hit while Ian Kinsler was available on the bench. “You just have to look yourself in the mirror and say, ‘What do we have to do to change it?'” “We’ll see how he is (Wednesday)”.
YANKEES 5, BLUE JAYS 3: Jacoby Ellsbury hit a two-run homer on R.A. Dickey’s third pitch of the game, and host NY remained 31/2 games back in the AL wild-card race. We’re not going to give in until the last day of the season. Detroit will send Anibal Sanchez to the mound who has been up and down this season and he will face off with Jose Quintana who is having a remarkable campaign for the White Sox who have spoiled his season a bit as they will likely fall well short of a playoff spot. It the sixth time he’s struck out 200 or more hitters in a season and first since 2013.
“It was a bad night for me”, Quintana told reporters.
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Despite a painfully slow start to his Tigers career, Upton has come alive with seven multi-hit games in his last 15 contests. In seven starts since August 2, he is 0-5 with a 12.07 ERA.
