Tigers End 8-Game Losing Streak With 7-1 Defeat Of White Sox
CHICAGO (AP) -- David Price struck out 11 in a five-hitter, Miguel Cabrera homered the Detroit Tigers ended an eight-game losing streak, beating the Chicago White Sox, 7-1, on Saturday night.
The four-time AL Central champion Tigers stopped their worst skid since 2005 and avoided falling below .500 for the first time this year.
Detroit finished with 18 hits after averaging 2.75 runs per game during their slide. Cabrera hit a two-run homer, his 12th.
Price (5-2) struck out seven straight batters in the middle innings. He walked two in his 13th career complete game.
Price worked with extra rest after throwing a season-high 121 pitches in 7 2-3 innings Sunday against the Angels.
John Danks (3-5) gave up five runs and 11 hits in 4 2-3 innings.
The Tigers scored five times on seven hits in the fifth. Cabrera's homer ended a string of 13 consecutive scoreless innings for Danks.
James McCann followed with an RBI double, and Josh Wilson and Jose Iglesias added RBI singles. That trio, the last three batters in the Detroit lineup, combined for 10 hits.
Iglesias and J.D. Martinez added RBI doubles.
Alexei Ramirez doubled in the third for the lone White Sox run.
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