Detroit Tigers vs. Chicago White Sox: What time, TV channel is today's matinee on?
Detroit Tigers (35-40) vs. Chicago White Sox (20-57)
When: 1:10 p.m. Saturday.
Where: Comerica Park in Detroit.
TV: Bally Sports Detroit. (Have Xfinity but still looking for a way to watch BSD? Here are some other options.)
Radio: WXYT-FM (97.1). (Tigers radio affiliates).
Probable pitchers: Tigers RHP Kenta Maeda (2-3, 6.02 ERA) vs. White Sox RHP Drew Thorpe (0-1, 8.64).
Weather: Cloudy, low-90s with 10% chance of rain.
Tigers lineup: TBA.
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Game notes: Just as Friday’s game between the Tigers and White Sox lived up to its billing as a pitchers’ duel, today’s matinee will likely land on the other side of the spectrum, with Detroit featuring a righty who has given up at least four runs — remember, the Tigers are 10-31 when giving up four or more, and 25-9 when giving up three or less — in three of his past seven starts and the White Sox sending a righty to the mound with 8⅓ career big-league innings over a pair of starts.
Maeda was solid in his return from the injured list on May 23, with just four hits allowed over five scoreless innings against Toronto. But since then, the 36-year-old has allowed 10 runs in 13⅔ innings — a 6.59 ERA — over four starts, including a June 5 appearance that lasted just two pitches. Maeda also hardly looked sharp in his first outing against the ChiSox this season, getting touched for six earned runs on seven hits and a walk on March 30. Slugger Luis Robert Jr. did the damage that day in Chicago, hitting a two-run homer in the first inning and then another in the third.
The book is much, much shorter on Thorpe, a second-round pick in 2022 (No. 61 overall by the New York Yankees) out of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo who is on his third organization, thanks to a couple of blockbuster trades. Thorpe was one of the prospects sent to Southern California to pry Juan Soto away from the Padres in December. Then, in mid-March, the Pads sent Thorpe to the White Sox to get veteran Dylan Cease for their rotation. Once ensconced in the ChiSox organization — and ranked as the No. 58 prospect in the minors, according to Baseball America (and No. 85 according to MLB Pipeline — Thorpe put together a solid résumé in Double-A, striking out 56 and walking 17 over 60 innings while posting a 1.35 ERA in 11 starts.
After today’s game, the Tigers and White Sox wrap up their second series of four this season with another matinee, as righty Reese Olson looks for his second win this season with the Tigers and another 2022 draft pick, Jonathan Cannon (third round, No. 101 overall by the ChiSox), toes the rubber for Chicago. The Tigers then take on a slightly tougher foe in the MLB-leading Philadelphia Phillies for three games at Comerica Park beginning Monday. The White Sox, meanwhile, head home to host the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers.
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