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Detroit Tigers<\/a> (22-35, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Chicago White Sox<\/a> (29-27, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Chicago; Friday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Troy Melton<\/a> (1-0, 1.59 ERA, 0.88 WHIP, three strikeouts); White Sox: Erick Fedde<\/a> (0-5, 5.47 ERA, 1.46 WHIP, 31 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Tigers -121, White Sox +101; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago White Sox host the Detroit Tigers to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Chicago is 17-11 in home games and 29-27 overall. The White Sox have the seventh-ranked team batting average in the AL at .237.<\/p>\n

Detroit is 8-21 on the road and 22-35 overall. Tigers hitters have a collective .316 on-base percentage, the 10th-ranked percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the first time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Miguel Vargas<\/a> has eight doubles, a triple and 12 home runs for the White Sox. Chase Meidroth<\/a> is 11 for 37 with two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Dillon Dingler<\/a> leads the Tigers with 10 home runs while slugging .456. Spencer Torkelson<\/a> is 8 for 32 with two home runs and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: White Sox: 5-5, .238 batting average, 4.40 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n

Tigers: 2-8, .201 batting average, 4.44 ERA, outscored by 18 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: White Sox: Noah Schultz: 15-Day IL (knee), Ky Bush: 60-Day IL (elbow), Austin Hays: 10-Day IL (calf), Jordan Hicks: 15-Day IL (lat), Everson Pereira<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Kyle Teel: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Drew Thorpe: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tanner Murray: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brooks Baldwin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Mike Vasil<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Prelander Berroa: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Tigers: Kenley Jansen<\/a>: 15-Day IL (groin), Casey Mize: day-to-day (groin), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Javier Baez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Beau Brieske<\/a>: 60-Day IL (thigh), Brant Hurter: 15-Day IL (back), Burch Smith: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Ty Madden: 15-Day IL (arm), Gleyber Torres: 10-Day IL (oblique), Kerry Carpenter<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ac joint), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Tarik Skubal: 15-Day IL (elbow), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Jackson Jobe<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers (22-35, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Chicago White Sox (29-27, second in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[29375,5,2259,1001,138,49,2561,53,1390,133,75686,10857,713,1329,388,132,391,19,4154,6278,4,768,314,33608,396,2562],"class_list":["post-711767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-bailey-horn","tag-baseball","tag-beau-brieske","tag-chase-meidroth","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-dillon-dingler","tag-erick-fedde","tag-event_preview","tag-everson-pereira","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-javier-baez","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kenley-jansen","tag-kerry-carpenter","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-miguel-vargas","tag-mike-vasil","tag-mlb","tag-reese-olson","tag-spencer-torkelson","tag-troy-melton","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116657132897649843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}