After sweeping 4 games from the Yankees on the road in New York, the Detroit Tigers will square off against the AL West 1st place Chicago White Sox for 4 games back home at Tiger Stadium.
In the 1st game of a twilight double header the Tigers pitching floundered in the last 2 innings and Detroit fell to the White Sox 6-4. Reliever Mike Henneman failed to close out the game, blowing the save then losing the game after allowing 3 runs to score. The big hits for Chicago were Frank Thomas's 3 run homer in the 8th off Frank Tanana and Robin Ventura's 2 run triple in the 9th. Henneman, while being the best option in the Tiger's bullpen, is 7-5 with 23 Saves. But he has blown 12 saves and his ERA stands at 4.22.
Strat-O-Matic Report
BOXSCORE: 1991 Chicago White Sox At 1991 Detroit Tigers 8/13/1991
White Sox AB R H RBI AVG Tigers AB R H RBI AVG
T.Raines LF 4 1 0 0 .263 T.Phillips LF 4 0 0 0 .270
R.Ventura 3B 4 1 3 2 .288 S.Livingstone 3B 5 0 0 0 .329
F.Thomas DH 4 1 1 3 .333 L.Whitaker 2B 2 1 0 0 .262
R.Kittle 1B 5 0 2 0 .259 C.Fielder DH 2 0 0 0 .263
D.Pasqua RF 4 0 0 0 .276 M.Tettleton C 3 0 1 1 .237
C.Grebeck 2B 4 1 3 0 .287 R.Deer RF 4 1 1 1 .226
M.Huff CF 4 1 1 1 .286 D.Bergman 1B 3 1 1 0 .322
R.Karkovice C 3 0 0 0 .216 T.Fryman SS 4 1 1 0 .273
O.Guillen SS 4 1 1 0 .287 M.Cuyler CF 4 0 0 1 .255
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Totals 36 6 11 6 Totals 31 4 4 3
White Sox....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 - 6 11 1
Tigers.......... 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 4 4 0
White Sox (66-46) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
A.Fernandez 4 2/3 4 4 4 6 6 1 99 4.62
D.Pall WIN(5-2) 3 2/3 0 0 0 2 2 0 49 2.85
M.Perez SAVE(4th) 0 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 3.48
Totals 9 4 4 4 8 8 1
Tigers (68-45) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
F.Tanana 7 1/3 8 3 3 2 2 1 120 3.74
M.Henneman L(7-5)B(12th) 1 1/3 2 3 3 1 1 0 30 4.22
J.Gleaton 0 1/3 1 0 0 1 0 0 14 5.81
Totals 9 11 6 6 4 3 1
ATTENDANCE- 50,963 DATE- Tuesday, August 13th 1991 TIME- Night WEATHER- Good
UMPIRES- Jim McKean, Dale Ford, Vic Voltaggio, Jim Joyce
T- 3:18
LEFT ON BASE- White Sox: 7 Tigers: 8
DOUBLE PLAYS- White Sox: 1 Tigers: 2
ERRORS- O.Guillen
DOUBLES- R.Ventura(19th), C.Grebeck(9th), M.Tettleton(15th), T.Fryman(26th)
TRIPLES- R.Ventura(5th)
HOME RUNS- F.Thomas(27th), R.Deer(23rd)
RBIs- R.Ventura-2(66th), F.Thomas-3(82nd), M.Huff(16th), M.Tettleton(63rd),
R.Deer(48th), M.Cuyler(42nd)
WALKS- T.Raines, R.Ventura, F.Thomas, R.Karkovice, T.Phillips, L.Whitaker-3,
C.Fielder-2, M.Tettleton, D.Bergman
STRIKE OUTS- T.Raines, R.Karkovice, O.Guillen, S.Livingstone-2, R.Deer-3,
D.Bergman, M.Cuyler-2
GIDP- F.Thomas, M.Huff, C.Fielder
WILD PITCHES- A.Fernandez, M.Henneman
2-out RBI- R.Ventura-2
RLISP 2-out- O.Guillen-2, R.Deer, T.Fryman-2, D.Pasqua, R.Kittle, L.Whitaker
TEAM RISP- White Sox: 3 for 10 Tigers: 1 for 6
Robin Ventura collected 2 extra-base hits and had 2 RBI at Tiger Stadium as
the Chicago White Sox came back dramatically to top the Detroit Tigers by the
score of 6 to 4.
Chicago won the game with a rally in the top of the 9th inning with 3 runs on
3 hits. Craig Grebeck led off the inning for Chicago when he doubled. Mike
Henneman then had one get away for a wild pitch. Mike Huff then lined a
single which scored a run. Ron Karkovice got his chance to keep things
going, but he went down on strikes. One out later, Tim Raines came up and he
drew a walk. Ventura joined his teammates in the uprising and tripled with
two more runners crossing home. For the game Chicago out-hit Detroit 11 to
4.
Donn Pall(5-2) got the win allowing no runs in 3 and 2/3 innings. Pall got
help from Melido Perez who was credited with his 4th save. The loss was
charged to Henneman(7-5) in relief. He pitched 1 and 1/3 innings giving up 2
hits and 1 walk.
After the game, it took a long while before Sparky Anderson emerged from his
office. In a subdued tone he answered only a couple of questions. He
concluded with, 'Fellows, sorry I'm not in a very talkative mood tonight, as
I think you'll understand. I'm sure you'll find the banter a lot more
light-hearted over in the Chicago locker room.'
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