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Power Surge Continues as White Sox Topple Tigers

Tim Anderson welcomed Tigers pitching prospect Tarik Skubal to the majors with a leadoff homer, and the Chicago White Sox beat Detroit 10-4 Tuesday night for their third straight win.

 

Anderson homered leading off the first for the second straight night and finished with four hits and three RBIs. The reigning AL batting champion raised his average to .379 with his second four-hit game this season - the other was against Detroit last week.

 

Anderson had a pair of singles and a double along with his homer. He is the fifth White Sox player to hit leadoff home runs in back-to-back games. His eight career leadoff homers are tied for fourth on the franchise list.

 

Jose Abreu had three hits and three RBIs, and Dylan Cease pitched into the seventh inning to win his fourth straight start as Chicago handed Detroit its seventh loss in a row.

 

White Sox center fielder Luis Robert was pulled in the eighth inning with a sore right hand. X-rays were negative, and the team says he is day to day.

 

Cease (4-1) allowed two runs and five hits in 6 1/3 innings to improve to 5-0 in five career starts against Detroit. Yoan Moncada had two RBIs.

 

Jonathan Schoop hit a solo shot off Cease and added a single.

 

Skubal (0-1) lasted just two innings, allowing four runs and seven hits. The 23-year-old ranks among the top left-handed prospects in baseball.

 

He and right-hander Casey Mize, the No 1 pick overall in the 2018 draft, were called up to fill a gap in the Tigers injury-depleted rotation. Mize is slated to make his major league debut Wednesday. Neither had pitched above Double-A prior to this season.

 

After Anderson put Chicago ahead, Schoop lined a homer to almost the same spot to start the second.

 

The White Sox jumped back ahead 4-1 in the bottom half, with Anderson's double, Moncada's sac fly and Abreu's single driving in the runs. That ended Skubal's night

 

Abreu drove in two runs with a double off Daniel Norris in the fourth to make it 6-2.

 

The Tigers scored twice in the eighth. The White Sox replied with four in the bottom half with Anderson's fourth hit, a single, plating Chicago's ninth run.

 

Mize (0-0, 0.00) takes the mound Wednesday. The White Sox will counter with RHP and highly-rated prospect Dane Dunning, who also makes his major league debut.

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