Free-falling Tigers drop 8th consecutive series with loss to White Sox

Tony Paul, The Detroit News on May 30, 2026

Published in Baseball

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CHICAGO — Another day, another dud. Copy, paste.

The Detroit Tigers have dropped their eighth consecutive series with a 7-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox on Saturday afternoon at Rate Field. They've lost 20 of their last 24 games. They're 15 games under .500 (22-37) for the first time since August 2023. They're 6-21 in May. They're 8-23 on the road.

And maybe the worst stat of all — there still are 103 more games of whatever this is. Have mercy.

The White Sox jumped on Tigers starter Framber Valdez (2-4) for two runs in the first inning and two more in the seventh, including Edgar Quero's second home run of the season.

As we've come to learn — and accept — that's typically far too deep a hole for this Tigers' offense to climb out of. The lone run was on Wenceel Perez's fifth homer of the season, and his third in the last five games. It was a pull shot to left field in the third inning off White Sox lefty starter Anthony Kay (5-1).

The Tigers managed just six more hits, all singles. Their best shot to claw back was in the sixth inning, when Matt Vierling led off with a single and then Riley Greene reached when White Sox right fielder Randal Grichuk dropped a routine fly ball. Two on, nobody out ... what do you think happened?

That was the end of the day for Kay, and right-handed reliever Grant Taylor made speedy work of the rest of the inning, striking out Spencer Torkelson on three pitches, getting pinch-hitter Colt Keith to fly out to center and getting Perez to ground out to second.

The Tigers also had two on and one out in the fourth inning, but the severely scuffling Jahmai Jones hit into an inning-ending double play.

Through two games at hitter-friendly Rate Field, the Tigers have 11 hits and four runs ... and two more losses.

Valdez wasn't his best and he wasn't his worst. The first three hitters of the game reached, with Chase Meidroth doubling, followed by walks to Friday's walk-off hero, Miguel Vargas, and Colson Montgomery. Meidroth scored on a wild pitch, and Vargas scored on Quero's sacrifice fly. Valdez got out of the inning with limited damage; he then faced just over the minimum from innings two through six, before he got knocked out in the seventh.

Beau Brieske, who came off the injured list Friday, made his season debut for the Tigers on Saturday, coming on in relief of Valdez, and it wasn't a memorable one. Brieske allowed homers to Montgomery (his 14th of the season) and Andrew Benintendi (his fourth) in the eighth inning, to the delight of 29,435 fans on a sun-splashed Saturday.

The White Sox offense teed off on Tigers pitchers despite losing star slugger Munetaka Murakami to the injured list with hamstring tightness before the game.

The Tigers and White Sox (31-27) wrap up the series Sunday, with first pitch at 2:10 p.m. ET.

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