The White Sox (24-31) will probably think more about the big innings they should have had more than the 1-2 David Robertson curveball that Justin Upton blasted to left to give the Tigers a 7-4 walk-off win. The warm feelings of the Sox comeback from a 4-2 deficit in the eighth couldn’t cover up the waste of a rare bad day from Justin Verlander.
“Hanging breaking ball,” Robertson said of the fatal pitch, “It sat in the middle of the zone and he hit it I’m assuming about 20 rows back. I didn’t need to look. It was loud off the bat.