Kerry Carpenter belted three home runs, Dillon Dingler and Wenceel Perez also homered, and Jack Flaherty pitched six strong innings to lift the Detroit Tigers to a 13-1 rout of the host Chicago White Sox on Monday.
Carpenter smacked two-run homers in the first and fourth innings and a solo shot in the sixth for his first career three-home run game. He finished with five RBIs.
Parker Meadows, who made his season debut after missing the first two months with a right upper arm nerve issue, contributed two of the Tigers’ 16 hits. Gleyber Torres, Colt Keith, and Perez also had two hits apiece.
Flaherty (4-6) cruised behind the hefty run support. He spaced one run and four hits in six innings with one walk and four strikeouts.
Chase Meidroth collected a pair of hits for the White Sox, including a double to lead off the game and a single to open the sixth. He scored Chicago’s lone run on Vinny Capra’s RBI groundout in the sixth.
Capra later pitched a perfect ninth, retiring the side on nine pitches.
White Sox right-hander Jonathan Cannon entered Monday’s start with eight home runs allowed in 11 appearances and nine starts covering 60 2/3 innings.
Detroit attacked Cannon from the outset, denting him for three more long balls. After Meadows struck out swinging to open the game, Cannon yielded a single to Torres and a two-run home run to Carpenter. Dingler added a solo shot two batters later.
Perez delivered a two-run homer in the second to stretch the Tigers’ lead to 5-0. Cannon settled down after that, but the early damage proved too much to overcome. He fell to 2-7 after allowing five runs and four hits in three innings with three walks and five strikeouts.
Detroit improved to 4-0 against Chicago this season as Carpenter became the first Tiger to hit three home runs in a game since Victor Martinez on June 16, 2016.
The White Sox have lost seven of eight. Monday marked their first defeat by more than two runs since May 19.
Austin Slater doubled for Chicago.
