Tigers drop 8-1 decision to last-place White Sox

Chris McCosky, The Detroit News on Jun 3, 2025

Published in Baseball

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CHICAGO – Everything went the Detroit Tigers’ way on Monday night.

Very little did on Tuesday.

With veteran Michael A. Taylor igniting the offense, the Chicago White Sox beat the Tigers, 8-1, on a windy night at Rate Field.

Taylor drew a bases loaded walk in the fourth and hit a two-out, three-run homer in the sixth off lefty Tyler Holton.

And the Tigers’ offense, which produced 13 runs and five home runs on Monday, faced a very different challenge with White Sox right-handed starter Slade Smith.

Smith bullied the Tigers for 5 1/3 innings with a lively four-seam fastball that he was pouring in at 96.7 to 98 mph, up from his season average of 95. The Tigers managed just three singles off him, two by Riley Greene, and struck out six times.

Their lone run came in the seventh on an RBI double by Dillon Dingler.

It was a bullpen game for the Tigers, and until the sixth inning, it was humming right along.

Andrew Benintendi, the White Sox lefty-swinging clean-up hitter, seemed to be the target point of manager AJ Hinch’s bullpen decisions.

He opened the game with Beau Brieske and until the seventh inning , he was the only right-handed pitcher Benintendi faced.

Brieske got four outs, striking out Benintendi, and then gave way to lefty Brant Hurter. Hurter got six outs and struck out four, exiting after he struck out Benintendi with a runner on in the fifth.

Right-hander Brenan Hanifee took over from there and should’ve been out of the fifth inning in two pitches.

He got right-handed hitting Austin Slater to bounce one back to him, but instead of starting an inning-ending double-play, Hanifee made an errant throw to second base.

Hanifee proceeded to walk Edgar Quero and then Taylor with the bases loaded to force in a run.

Hanifee regrouped with a clean fifth and got the White Sox batting order to Benintendi again.

Holton took over in the sixth and started his outing by dispatching Benintendi. This time on a groundout to second baseman Gleyber Torres, who made a slick backhand play going to his right.

With a runner at first base and one out, Holton got Quero to hit a ball up the middle. If Holton had let the ball go by, it would have been an inning-ending force out at second. Instead, he deflected the ball away from shortstop Trey Sweeney.

Taylor followed, hitting Holton’s second pitch into the seats in left-center.

The White Sox scored twice more in the seventh off rookie Dylan Smith. Slater ripped a two-out, two-run double. And in the eighth, they strung three singles and a walk to score two runs off Chase Lee.

The loss ends the Tigers’ 11-game winning streak on the South Side of Chicago and drops their season record to 40-22.

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