Chicago ― Jim Leyland liked to say that momentum was only as good as your next day's starting pitcher.

And, well, there ya go.

A seemingly decent Jack Flaherty start turned into a miserable one in a hurry during a disastrous, five-run fifth inning as the White Sox slogged their way past the Tigers, 9-6, at Rate Field on Monday night. The root canal of a baseball game took 3 hours, 24 minutes, making it the longest nine-inning game of Detroit's season.

The White Sox strung together four consecutive hits to start the fourth and knocked Flaherty, who was at just 52 pitches entering the fifth inning, from the game before the inning was over. A two-run single by White Sox slugging rookie Colson Montgomery, who struck out the first two times up and was in an 0-2 hole in his at-bat in the fif

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