The birthday boy, Mike Fiers, started for the Tigers and was very good before, well, he wasn’t. The bullpen held on, the offense eked out another run, and the Tigers beat the White Sox 4-3 to open their three-game weekend series.
After an uneventful first inning, John Hicks put a charge in one in the second and put it over the right-center field fence for a 1-0 Tigers lead. James McCann then blooped a two-out single, Victor Reyes followed suit, but Dixon Machado killed the mini-rally with a flyout.