The Detroit Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox in 11 innings yesterday in a hard-fought game of baseball. You never know what you’re going to see at a baseball game, and an MLB extra-innings game is always a possibility. You don’t often see such high scoring games, and anyone with White Sox tickets sure got their money’s worth. This high-scoring game saw the teams combine for a whopping 16 runs! Talk about excitement! Not much compares to America’s Pastime so stock up on cheap baseball tickets and see all the fun live.
Tigers pitcher Robbie Weinhardt (7.01 ERA) got the win, while Sergio Santos (3.12 ERA) took the loss for the White Sox. Jeremy Bonderman went 5.2 innings for the Tigers, allowed 7 hits, no home runs and one earned run with 5 walks and no strikeouts. Also pitching for the Tigers was Brad Thomas (4.28), Ryan Perry (4.02), Phil Coke (3.47), and Eddie Bonine (4.43). The White Sox’s starter John Danks went 6.1 innings, allowed 6 hits, 2 home runs and 7 earned runs with 3 walks and 4 strikeouts. J.J. Putz (2.98), and Carlos Torres (8.56) also pitched for the White Sox. With the win, Weinhardt’s record goes to 2-2, while Santos is at 2-2. Daniel Schlereth earned the save for the Tigers, bringing his saves up to 1.
In addition to the 9 runs, the Tigers scored 9 hits and committed 3 errors. It wasn’t a huge day for anyone at the plate for the Tigers, as nobody managed more than 2 hits. A.J. Pierzynski and Alex Rios tied for most hits for the White Sox with 3, followed by Alexei Ramirez with 2 hits. Paul Konerko could not get much going at the plate as he left 5 runners on base. The White Sox scored 7 runs, 14 hits and one error.
Umpiring duties were performed by Jeff Nelson, Mark Carlson, Jeff Kellogg and Larry Vanover. There were 25,417 White Sox ticket holders in attendance at US Cellular Field.