Detroit – Parker Meadows has this thing he does when he first comes off the injured list.

He homers.

Last season, he came off the injured list in early July and homered in his first game. He got hurt again, came back a month later and homered in his second game back.

He didn’t wait that long Friday.

Out since July 27 with a quad strain, Meadows blistered the first pitch he saw and sent it on a wire into the right-field seats. The ball sizzled off his bat at 106 mph and flew 385 feet in a hurry.

And if the Tigers could have stopped the White Sox from scoring runs, it would have been quite a welcome-back party.

But they could not.

The White Sox won their sixth straight game, beating the Tigers 7-5 before a crowd of 35,216 at Comerica Park.

The Tigers took a 4-3 lead in the bottom of

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