White Sox starting pitcher Mark Buehrle is 9-8 with a 4.15 ERA in 21 starts this season and will be looking to lead his club to a third straight victory with him on the mound.\u00a0 Over his last two outings, he has allowed six runs and 13 hits over 14 innings of work.\u00a0 The left-hander is 4-6 with a 3.71 ERA in 11 road starts, but has managed to strike out just 29 batters in 70.1 frames.\u00a0 Buehrle will be making just his seventh daytime start, posting a 3-1 mark and 4.26 ERA, compared to a 6-7 record and 4.11 ERA at night.\u00a0 In 28 career appearances (27 starts) against the Tigers, he is 14-8 with a 2.99 ERA, including a 7-5 record and 3.12 ERA at Comerica Park.<\/p>\n Detroit has dropped 15 of its last 19 games and are sinking fast in the divisional standings.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve just got to go out and play,\u201d pitcher Jeremy Bonderman said.\u00a0 \u201cYou want to gain some ground and we can go out and control our own destiny.\u201d\u00a0 They went 1-6 on their recent road trip to Tampa Bay and Boston, but suffered three losses by a single run over that span.\u00a0 The team also managed to be held hitless by Rays starting pitcher Matt Garza.\u00a0 \u201cI think Detroit is going to be heard from before it\u2019s over,\u201d White Sox first baseman Paul Konerko said.\u00a0 The Tigers are 18-11 against left-handed starters this season (+850) and the total is 16-13 O\/U in those contests.\u00a0 The team has a good opportunity of winning the front end of today\u2019s doubleheader, with a 24-20 daytime mark (+130).<\/p>\n Tigers starting pitcher Rick Porcello is 4-9 with a 5.50 ERA in 16 starts this season and the team has lost his last five outings overall.\u00a0 The offense has supplied him with just 13 runs of support over that span.\u00a0 The second-year starter is 3-4 with a 4.39 ERA in nine home starts, allowing opponents to hit for a .283 combined average.\u00a0 In nine daytime outings, Porcello has compiled a 3-4 record and 4.58 ERA, surrendering just three home runs in 53 innings.\u00a0 The right-hander is 0-3 with a 9.77 ERA in three career starts versus the White Sox, giving up 21 hits in 15.2 innings.<\/p>\n Bettors will find the White Sox being a fantastic 21-12 in day games this season (+980) and 43-33 versus right-handed starters (+870).\u00a0 Detroit is a disappointing 4-5 as a home underdog of +100 to +125 in 2010 and an even 14-14 in this spot the last three years (+140).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These two AL Central rivals are heading in opposite directions as they start a four-game series with a doubleheader. Chicago White Sox at Detroit Tigers Chicago opens up a four-game series with a day-night doubleheader against the Tigers on Tuesday.\u00a0 The White Sox haven\u2019t been very successful against divisional opponents this year, posting a 17-20 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[56,171,48,2268,1825,2371],"class_list":["post-6047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-al-central","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-mark-buehrle","tag-paul-konerko","tag-rick-porcello"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6050,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047\/revisions\/6050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Paul-Konerko-white-sox-88-150x150.jpg\")
Chicago opens up a four-game series with a day-night doubleheader against the Tigers on Tuesday.\u00a0 The White Sox haven\u2019t been very successful against divisional opponents this year, posting a 17-20 mark (-700) and the total is 16-18 O\/U in those games.\u00a0 The team did finish its last homestand with a 6-1 record and are 20-2 over their last 22 games at U.S. Cellular Field.\u00a0 \u201cWe are playing good baseball all over,\u201d said reliever Matt Thornton.\u00a0 Chicago has compiled a dominating 35-12 record since June 9, helping to erase a 9.5 game deficit in the divisional race in the process.\u00a0 It must not be lost that the White Sox are just an even 25-25 on the road this season (+390) and 96-118 away from Chicago the last three years (-1,080).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n