CHICAGO — A comeback from the Detroit Tigers sent the Chicago White Sox to their 100th loss in their 131st game, keeping them on pace for the worst record in modern baseball history.

The White Sox are on pace for 123 losses, three more than the 1962 Mets' 120 in 160 games.

They're that bad.

In Sunday's game, the Tigers beat the White Sox, 9-4, in the third of four games in the series at Guaranteed Rate Field. Scoring three runs in the fifth inning flipped the momentum and propelled the Tigers to their third win in a row.

The Tigers (65-66) — winners in 10 of their last 13 games — can reach .500 for the first time since June 5 with a win in Monday's series finale.

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The first four batters reached safely in the fifth inning, all against right-hander Jonathan Cannon. The first three batters — Kerry Carpenter, Colt Keith, Jace Jung — collected singles, with Jung tying the game, 3-3, with a two-strike single on a high-velocity fastball.

Spencer Torkelson loaded the bases with a six-pitch walk.

Loading the bases chased Cannon from his start, replaced by left-handed reliever Fraser Ellard. Pinch-hitter Andy Ibáñez, a right-handed hitter, grounded into a force out, which scored Keith from third base for a 4-3 advantage.

The Tigers never looked back.

Trey Sweeney — a left-handed hitter who typically struggles against lefty pitchers — didn't miss Ellard's poorly located middle-middle cutter, redirecting it into center field for an RBI single to make it 5-3.

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Two-out blast

The Tigers extended their lead to 7-3 in the seventh.

Right-handed reliever Enyel De Los Santos struck out the first two batters in Keith and Jung, but Torkelson reached safely on an infield single that wasn't fielded cleanly by the third baseman.

Ibáñez made the White Sox pay for Vargas' mistake, cranking a down-and-in slider from De Los Santos for a two-run home run to left field. He hit the slider in a two-strike count with two outs.

It was Ibáñez's first homer against a right-handed pitcher in the 2024 season.

In the eighth, Keith pushed the lead to 9-4 with a two-run double to the right-field corner off a middle-middle sinker from right-handed reliever Touki Toussaint.

Keith finished 3-for-4 with three RBIs, one walk and one strikeout. Carpenter, Jung and Sweeney produced the other multi-hit performances in a 14-hit effort for the Tigers. who also drew five walks.

On the mound

Right-handed reliever Beau Brieske, who hasn't been a traditional starter since 2022, started as an opener for the Tigers, but the White Sox scored two runs against him in the first inning.

Brieske walked the leadoff hitter on five pitches.

The White Sox grabbed a 2-0 lead on back-to-back doubles from Andrew Benintendi and Andrew Vaughn. Brieske completed the first inning, but he was replaced for the second inning by left-hander Bryan Sammons, who covered 4⅓ innings on 50 pitches.

In the third, Vaughn blasted a middle-middle cutter from Sammons for a solo home run to left-center. The homer from Vaughn put the White Sox ahead, 3-1.

Sammons allowed one run on three hits and two walks with three strikeouts. He has a 3.62 ERA in six appearances as a long reliever for the Tigers.

The White Sox didn't score again until the seventh inning with Corey Julks' sacrifice fly off right-handed reliever Will Vest made it 7-4.

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This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Detroit Tigers sting Chicago White Sox again with rally for 9-4 win