Sox rally again, edge Tigers to keep pace with Twins

DETROIT—The White Sox keep finding ways to win.A.J. Pierzynski hit a go-ahead single in the 10th inning and finished with three RBI on Monday, and the Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 5-4 for their seventh straight win.The White Sox are still second in the A.L. Central, 3½ games behind the Minnesota Twins.Chris Sale (1-1) earned his first major league victory, finishing with 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief.Jose Valverde (2-4) took the loss.Don Kelly homered and drove in three runs for Detroit.Manny Ramirez led off the 10th with a single and went to second when Ryan Raburn stumbled and booted the ball in left. Alejandro De Aza ran for Ramirez, and pinch-hitter Alex Rios hit a single one out later to send De Aza to third. Pierzynski followed with a looper into short left field on a 1-2 pitch to bring in De Aza and give the White Sox the lead.Alexei Ramirez’s two-out single in the eighth had tied the game at 4 for the White Sox.Detroit starter Max Scherzer was replaced by Phil Coke after Andruw Jones’ one-out single in the eighth. Coke got Pierzynski to fly out to the warning track in right and was replaced by Ryan Perry. Brent Lillibridge, running for Jones, stole second and Alexei Ramirez sent a liner into left-center to tie the game.The Tigers’ Brandon Inge hit a drive down the left-field line and into the stands with two outs and one on in the eighth that was originally called a home run. The call was overruled when replay clearly showed the ball was foul.Detroit took a 2-0 lead when the first three batters got hits, but Chicago tied it in the second on Pierzynski’s bases-loaded single.The White Sox went ahead 3-2 in the fourth on Juan Pierre’s two out, run-scoring single. They nearly added another run, but Tigers right fielder Brennan Boesch threw Mark Kotsay out at the plate as he tried to score from second on Omar Vizquel’s single.Miguel Cabrera led off with a single and Kelly drove Edwin Jackson’s next pitch into the right-field stands for his sixth home run, giving Detroit a 4-3 lead.Scherzer allowed four runs on nine hits in 7 1/3 innings, walking two and striking out six.Jackson gave up four runs on nine hits in 7 1/3 innings, walking one and striking out six.

NOTES—Vizquel passed Rafael Palmeiro for most games by a player born outside the United States (2,832)…..Paul Konerko sat out because of a stiff back…..Kelly made two outstanding catches in LF. He robbed Kotsay of a hit with a diving catch to his left with two on and none out in the second, and victimized Vizquel with his back to the diamond and running toward the left-field foul pole as he led off the third.