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Detroit Tigers<\/a> (72-80, third in the AL Central) vs. Chicago White Sox<\/a> (77-75, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Framber Valdez<\/a> (10-10, 4.01 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 121 strikeouts); White Sox: Erick Fedde<\/a> (8-9, 3.97 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 91 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: White Sox -129, Tigers +107; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

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

Chicago is 77-75 overall and 43-31 in home games. White Sox hitters have a collective .319 on-base percentage, the 10th-best percentage in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

Detroit has gone 33-44 on the road and 72-80 overall. Tigers pitchers have a collective 3.65 ERA, which ranks third in the AL.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Thursday for the 10th time this season. The White Sox are ahead 6-3 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Munetaka Murakami<\/a> leads the White Sox with 31 home runs while slugging .459. Randal Grichuk<\/a> is 13 for 29 with two doubles, a triple, two home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Dillon Dingler<\/a> leads the Tigers with 27 home runs while slugging .451. Kevin McGonigle<\/a> is 11 for 37 with three home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: White Sox: 3-7, .220 batting average, 3.97 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

Tigers: 7-3, .247 batting average, 2.93 ERA, outscored opponents by 25 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: White Sox: Colson Montgomery<\/a>: day-to-day (wrist), Tanner Murray: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Huascar Brazoban: 15-Day IL (lat), Ky Bush: 60-Day IL (elbow), Prelander Berroa: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Leasure: 60-Day IL (flexor), Joey Bart: 10-Day IL (hand), Brooks Baldwin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Mike Vasil<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Tigers: Jack Flaherty: 15-Day IL (flexor), Wenceel Perez: 60-Day IL (face), Matt Vierling: 60-Day IL (thigh), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Burch Smith: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Kerry Carpenter<\/a>: 10-Day IL (heel), Will Vest: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/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 (72-80, third in the AL Central) vs. Chicago White Sox (77-75, 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":[29375,5,138,49,2561,10448,53,1390,133,75686,79,388,391,4140,19,6278,4,73,1448,768,396,2562],"class_list":["post-807199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-bailey-horn","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-colson-montgomery","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-dillon-dingler","tag-erick-fedde","tag-event_preview","tag-framber-valdez","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kerry-carpenter","tag-kevin-mcgonigle","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mike-vasil","tag-mlb","tag-munetaka-murakami","tag-randal-grichuk","tag-reese-olson","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117285767334727029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807199","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=807199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807199\/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=807199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}