On a fine Friday evening, the Tigers had two things to be grateful for: it was, indeed, Friday, and they were no longer playing the Mets. The White Sox were up for the weekend series, which would ideally be a good series for Detroit ahead of their meeting with the Yankees next week. Of course, as Shakespeare famously said, “the course of true love never did run smooth,” and the same is true of a winning baseball season. Jack Flaherty was on the mound for the Tigers, up against Shane Smith for the White Sox.

Flaherty started giving up hits fairly early in the game, though his first pitch strikes remained on point. With two outs in the first, he gave up a double to Curtis Mead. Colson Montgomery then singled to bring Mead home and put the White Sox on the board first. In the home half, the

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