DETROIT—For a change, Freddy Garcia is healthy and the White Sox are happy.Juan Pierre’s two-run double and run-saving catch in the fourth inning and Garcia solid start helped the White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 6-2 Tuesday.The White Sox had lost six of nine and haven’t won consecutive games since their season-high three-game streak almost a month ago.Garcia (3-2) gave up two runs over six innings, going five starts without a loss for the first time since the end of the 2006 season.After Garcia closed 2006 strong in his previous stint in Chicago, injuries led to him going a combined 5-10 with Philadelphia, Detroit and the White Sox the next three seasons.The crafty right-hander looks as if he could be back, winning three straight games after giving up two runs in each start.Rick Porcello (3-4) allowed four runs on eight hits in seven innings.Pierre led off the game with a walk and scored, hit a two-out double to give the Sox a two-run lead in its three-run fourth and dove to rob Gerald Laird of an RBI single that would have made it 4-3 in the inning.Detroit’s Johnny Damon hit a homer — his third this month — in the first inning and Brennan Boesch doubled and scored a go-ahead run in the second.Brandon Inge got to third with one out after putting the Tigers ahead in the second inning, but they continued to struggle scoring runners from third with one or fewer outs.Garcia stranded Inge by getting Laird to ground out and Adam Everett to pop out.Boesch led off the fourth with a single, stole second and advanced on a fly. He didn’t get home because Ramon Santiago grounded out, and the rookie made a mistake by not running. Laird later lined out to Pierre.Austin Jackson doubled in the fifth, advanced on a wild pitch and was stranded because Damon struck out and Miguel Cabrera lined out. Damon’s bat slipped out of his hands when he swung and missed, getting fooled by a slider with knuckleball action.Leyland lamented that the Tigers didn’t force Garcia to throw more strikes.Detroit entered the game with a .475 success rate of scoring runners from third with less than two outs, leading just three teams in the category.Damon said he and his teammates have to improve in those situations.Inge had a homer in the sixth inning overturned by video review, which gave the umpiring crew a chance to see that his blast to left was about a foot outside the pole.The Tigers, who won their previous two series at home against the Red Sox and Yankees, open a road trip Wednesday night at Oakland with an 8-11 record on the road after winning 14 of 20 at home.

NOTES—Sergio Santos, J.J. Putz and Bobby Jenks each pitched an inning of scoreless relief…..Boesch, who is hitting .387, extended his hitting streak to eight games with his 10th multihit game in his 20-game career…..The Sox open a homestand Wednesday against the Angels…..Detroit’s Carlos Guillen, who has been on the DL for almost a month with strained left hamstring, expects to start a rehab assignment this weekend for Triple-A Toledo…..Ozzie Guillen didn’t answer questions from the media before the game and joked about it with a clubhouse attendant. “I’m not talking, tell them, Curtis Granderson,” Guillen said to a young man, who looked a little like the former Tigers outfielder.