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On Friday, July 25, the Detroit Tigers had their hearts ripped out by the Chicago White Sox. With two outs in the ninth inning and closer Todd Jones trying to nail down a one-run victory for ...

Nick Swisher Home Run Sends White Sox to Dramatic Extra-Inning Win

by JJ Stankevitz (Senior Writer)

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Game Recap

August 05, 2008


On Friday, July 25, the Detroit Tigers had their hearts ripped out by the Chicago White Sox. With two outs in the ninth inning and closer Todd Jones trying to nail down a one-run victory for Detroit, Carlos Quentin poked two-strike pitch into right field for a single.

Jermaine Dye promptly followed that with a go-ahead, two-run home run off Jones. 7-6 White Sox, just like that.

Detroit was just one strike away (again, with nobody on base) from beating the White Sox on July 25, but they couldn't get it done.

The Sox couldn't possibly top that, right?

Wrong.

Continue reading the article HERE at Examiner.com and see how the White Sox came back to pull off one of their biggest victories of the year.

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  1. Sam Brown 11 months ago

    tonite was pure guts, this team doesn't give up, Carrasco was huge, Thornton, even with the homer had probably his most inspiring performance for the Sox to date. A special thanks to Leyland for pitching Kyle Farnsworth...

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  2. Daniel Abbas 11 months ago

    i haven't been able to see the past few games moving back and forth from chicago to dallas, but i was surprised (and ecstatic) about the heroes of last night's game

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  3. Collin Whitchurch 11 months ago

    Need a big outing out of Danks tonight...the bullpen is wiped out.

    But Detroit can probably say the same thing out of Verlander...

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    • JJ Stankevitz 11 months ago

      Danks came up big today—but, then again, so did Verlander in terms of saving the bullpen.

      Good thing Danks got the W and Verlander didn't, though.

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  4. Joe Willett 11 months ago

    I hate Nick Swisher =(

    I was at the game and was rooting for the Tigers, I got it pretty good. If only the Tigers didn't hit the home run in the top of the 14th to give us the lead and let me go crazy before all the festivities.

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    • JJ Stankevitz 11 months ago

      Aren't you a Cubs fan?

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    • Joe Willett 11 months ago

      Yea but I have a lot of family that lives near Detroit and are Tigers fans so the Tigers have come to be adopted as my number two team so I cheered for them by default last night. Also, when I root for a team, I go all out. My shirt didn't stay on all game, it wasn't a pretty sight.

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