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Chicago White Sox<\/a> (62-58, first in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers<\/a> (60-61, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Detroit; Friday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Sean Newcomb<\/a> (1-3, 2.66 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 60 strikeouts); Tigers: Jackson Jobe<\/a> (1-0, 0.00 ERA, 0.40 WHIP, four strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Tigers -156, White Sox +129; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago White Sox will aim to end their three-game road skid in a matchup with the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n

Detroit is 60-61 overall and 32-28 in home games. Tigers hitters have a collective .320 on-base percentage, the 10th-best percentage in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

Chicago has a 25-34 record on the road and a 62-58 record overall. The White Sox have the 10th-best team slugging percentage in the majors at .407.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Friday for the seventh time this season. The season series is tied 3-3.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kevin McGonigle<\/a> leads the Tigers with a .286 batting average, and has 21 doubles, three triples, 12 home runs, 75 walks and 48 RBIs. Spencer Torkelson<\/a> is 14 for 38 with eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Sam Antonacci<\/a> has a .280 batting average to lead the White Sox, and has 17 doubles, two triples and eight home runs. Chase Meidroth<\/a> is 12 for 36 with three home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Tigers: 7-3, .259 batting average, 1.82 ERA, outscored opponents by 38 runs<\/p>\n

White Sox: 4-6, .234 batting average, 4.89 ERA, outscored by seven runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Tigers: James Outman: 7-Day IL (concussion), Riley Greene<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Burch Smith: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brant Hurter: 60-Day IL (back), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Matt Vierling: 10-Day IL (adductor), Kerry Carpenter<\/a>: 10-Day IL (heel), Jack Flaherty<\/a>: 15-Day IL (flexor), Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Will Vest: 60-Day IL (elbow), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Wenceel Perez: 60-Day IL (face), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

White Sox: Ky Bush: 60-Day IL (elbow), Chris Murphy<\/a>: 15-Day IL (flexor), Joey Bart: 10-Day IL (hand), Jordan Leasure: 60-Day IL (flexor), Prelander Berroa: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kyle Teel: 10-Day IL (ankle), 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)<\/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":"Chicago White Sox (62-58, first in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers (60-61, second in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[29375,5,1001,138,49,2561,14167,53,75686,84,713,388,391,4140,19,6278,4,768,624,17709,751,314,396,2562],"class_list":["post-778407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-bailey-horn","tag-baseball","tag-chase-meidroth","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-chris-murphy","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-event_preview","tag-jack-flaherty","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kerry-carpenter","tag-kevin-mcgonigle","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mike-vasil","tag-mlb","tag-reese-olson","tag-riley-greene","tag-sam-antonacci","tag-sean-newcomb","tag-spencer-torkelson","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117093272357878266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778407","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=778407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}