Upton and Miggy homer. Miggy has 57 rbi's this season. Just such a shocking number for him.

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Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus was ejected in the fifth inning, so it was bench coach Gene Lamont who officially had the reins of the decision-making in the in final innings.

He made the right call in going to Shane Greene in the eighth inning for a five-out save.

Greene induced a double-play ball to get out of the eighth, then pitched a scoreless ninth as the Tigers beat the Chicago White 6-3 Saturday night at Guaranteed Rate Field.

Farmer fell one out short of a quality start, allowing three runs on five hits over 5 2/3 innings.
Four relievers combined to pitch 3 1/3 scoreless innings after starter Buck Farmer was knocked out in the sixth.

Farmer, who struck out 11 in 6 1/3 shutout innings when he pitched here in May, wasn't nearly as efficient on Saturday, but he still may have pitched well enough to earn another start. A two-run home run by Yolmer Sanchez in the second was the White Sox' only damage until the sixth.

Ausmus was ejected for arguing balls and strikes by home plate umpire Nick Mahrley, a rookie fill-in ump who made his big-league debut earlier this month. Saturday was only the third time he had worked behind the plate and Aumsus was believed to be his first career ejection.

NOTABLE
Most players picked nicknames for their special Players Weekend jerseys. Buck Farmer, who goes by his nickname already, decided to put his given name on the back of his jersey. His simply said "George."

Miguel Cabrera, who entered the game hitless in his last 12 at-bats, went
3-for-4 with a walk. He hit a solo home run in the third inning right after Justin Upton's game-tying two-run shot. It was the fourth time the Tigers have homered in back-to-back games this year.

Tigers center fielder Mikie Mahtook was unable to break out of his slump. He's now hitless in his last 20 at-bats.

Tigers catcher James McCann has had a rough week. He was hit in the helmet by a pitch on Thursday, plowed into by a runner at the plate on Friday and then hit right under the elbow by former teammate Mike Pelfrey on Saturday.

Ian Kinsler almost always has the green light when he's on the base paths, and he's often moving with two outs (when the risk-reward ratio for swiping second base is best).

After reaching on a single in the fourth inning on Saturday, he swiped second and then scored on Dixon Machado's two-out single, giving the Tigers their fifth run of the night.

The Cabrera homer gave the Tigers a 3-2 lead at the time, and broke a streak of 23 games without a home run for the two-time American League MVP. That includes 80 straight at bats without a home run.
Cabrera?s last home run came on July 28 against the Houston Astros.
That?s a long time for a player like Cabrera to go without a dinger.

They scored two more in the fourth, when Ian Kinsler and Dixon Machado hit RBI singles and again in the seventh, when Andrew Romine hit a sacrifice fly to centerfield.

Greene squelched the rally, inducing a groundball double play to end the inning, and recorded his fifth save of the season.
The Tigers bullpen of Daniel Stumpf, Warwick Saupold, Wilson and Greene combined to throw 3 1/3 scoreless innings. The Tigers are 56-72.
The Tigers bullpen locked this one down tight: Stumpf (two strikeouts), Warwick Saupold (two-thirds, one walk, one strikeout), Alex Wilson (one-third, one hit, one walk) and Shane Greene (five-out save).

MOMENTS THAT MATTERED
Stumpfed: After Anderson's RBI double brought the go-ahead run to the plate and had the tying run in scoring position with a pair on in the sixth, the Tigers went to left-hander Daniel Stumpf to flip the switch-hitting Sanchez to bat from the right side of the plate -- where he's hitting .229 this season. "Donald" got Sanchez to strike out swinging on a high fastball to end the inning and keep it a 5-3 game.

"Greene got the big outs, but I thought that Stumpf and [Warwick] Saupold got awful big outs for us, too," Lamont said. "Stumpy came in and turned Sanchez around to the right side and struck him out, and then he got Narvaez out to lead the next inning off. Those are big outs, too."

Bootsie hits, steals: Tigers second baseman Ian Kinsler, who is going by "Bootsie" during Player's Weekend, kept Detroit rolling after the back-to-back blasts. After Andrew Romine, known as "Robomb," doubled in the fourth, Kinsler brought him home with an RBI single past the glove of Anderson.

HE GONE
Tigers manager Brad Ausmus earned his fifth ejection of the season and second in a span of three days during the fifth inning on Saturday. Ausmus appeared to be arguing with home plate umpire Nick Mahrley from the dugout during Victor Martinez's at-bat, at one point drawing Mahrley to take his mask off and exchange words with Ausmus.

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/video/kinslers-rbi-single/c-1774676983?tid=8877502
Webvideo Highlights of the Tigers win over the white sox.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...nal,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=492026
Boxscore.

ROARS:
Dixon Machado - a hot bat, and a damn fine near catch near the dugout, Machado showed some nice hustle all over today?s game.

Justin Upton - You bet I?m going to shout out the guy who tied the game and made an awesome catch on the warning track in left.

HISSES:
Mike Pelfrey - because the Tigers are still paying him to be terrible. But hey, it worked out well for Detroit this time.

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Going to need help from you or someone for Sundays game thread and lineups.
Tigermud said he is unavailable.