The Chicago White Sox completed a three-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers on Sunday, winning 7-5 in Detroit and extending their lead in the AL Central to 5.5 games.
The White Sox trailed 3-0 and then 4-1 before rallying. They scored twice in the fifth inning and once in the sixth to tie the game. Tyler Holton walked Sam Antonacci to open the seventh, and Murakami followed with a two-run homer, his 28th of the season, to put Chicago ahead 6-4.
Detroit's Dillon Dingler, snapping an 0-for-28 stretch, hit an RBI double to cut it to 6-5. Miguel Vargas added a solo homer in the ninth, but it was not enough. Hagen Smith pitched 1 2/3 innings for the win. Sean Newcomb closed it out over the final two innings for his fourth save.
Detroit's Brett Callahan made his major league debut in the game and tripled on the first pitch of his career, driving in two runs. He is the first Tigers hitter to triple in his first at-bat since Bill Irwin did it on May 18, 1912, against the Philadelphia Athletics. Irwin, one of the emergency players brought in when the team went on strike to protest Ty Cobb's suspension, played his only MLB game that day. Rookie Max Clark added an RBI single in the same inning.
Drew Romo hit a two-run homer in the fifth to pull the White Sox within 4-3. Colson Montgomery's RBI single tied it in the sixth. Sam Antonacci's RBI groundout in the third had made it 3-1 before Colt Keith answered with a solo homer.
The White Sox return to Chicago for a three-game series at Wrigley Field. Right-hander Luis Castillo, 4-9 with a 4.96 ERA, is scheduled to start Monday against Cubs left-hander Shota Imanaga. The Tigers travel to Pittsburgh for a three-game series, with Framber Valdez starting Monday's opener.
