{"id":852901,"date":"2026-09-19T05:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852901\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T05:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:12:32","slug":"white-sox-blow-6-run-lead-and-fall-out-of-1st-place-in-al-central-with-11-8-loss-to-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852901\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox blow 6-run lead and fall out of 1st place in AL Central with 11-8 loss to Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO &#8212; Hao-Yu Lee and Riley Greene each hit a two-run homer in a five-run eighth inning as the Detroit Tigers rallied from six down to beat the Chicago White Sox 11-8 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Chicago (78-76) <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/athletics-guardians-score-29a9139445393773282a67313501d5fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trails first-place Cleveland by one game<\/a> in the AL Central with eight remaining, although the White Sox own the head-to-head tiebreaker after winning the season series. Chicago has a one-game lead for the final American League wild card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Detroit (73-81) trailed 8-2 after Miguel Vargas hit his 32nd homer for the White Sox \u2014 a two-run shot in the third inning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Chicago right fielder <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tigers\/status\/2101119660850631165?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tristan Peters left the game<\/a> in the fifth after crashing into the wall in right-center on Kevin McGonigle&#8217;s bases-loaded triple that cut it to 8-5 and chased rookie starter David Sandlin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Lee had a two-out RBI double off Chris Murphy in the sixth to make it 8-6. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Lee tied it against Sean Newcomb (2-5) with his 10th homer and Greene followed with his 21st \u2014 off Bryan Hudson \u2014 later in the inning. Dillon Dingler had a go-ahead single in between the homers. Lee finished with four of the Tigers&#8217; 16 hits. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Colson Montgomery hit a three-run double with two outs in the first as Chicago scored six unearned runs off Andrew Sears in his third career start to take a 6-1 lead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Colt Keith doubled and scored from second on a wild pitch to put Detroit up 1-0 in the first. McGonigle&#8217;s RBI single cut it to 6-2 in the third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Drew Sommers (2-4) struck out five in two perfect innings for the win, and Kenley Jansen pitched the ninth for his 21st save in 27 opportunities this season. It was the 497th save of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sandlin pitched four innings in his fifth career start and allowed five runs on seven hits. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tigers RHP Jackson Jobe (2-2, 3.89 ERA) starts Saturday opposite White Sox RHP Sean Burke (9-7, 3.47). The game time was moved up to 1:10 p.m. because of the weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8212; Hao-Yu Lee and Riley Greene each hit a two-run homer in a five-run eighth inning as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,363,2008,99],"class_list":["post-852901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}