Chicago White Sox at Detroit Tigers: Final Score & Recap

The Chicago White Sox shutout the Detroit Tigers 6-0 on September 8, 2023, at Comerica Park, erasing a pre-game win probability of 60% in favor of the home club and dropping the DiamondIQ model's estimate for Detroit to 0% by the final out. The game remained scoreless through six innings before the White Sox broke it open with a two-run seventh and a four-run eighth, doing all of their damage in a compressed window that rendered the Tigers' early advantage entirely moot.

The decisive moment came in the top of the seventh when Yoán Moncada connected on a home run off Reese Olson, a swing that shifted win probability by 28.5 percentage points and effectively turned the contest. Luis Robert Jr. had already contributed to that inning with a double off Olson worth 6.7 percentage points of win probability, helping set the stage for Moncada's blow. The White Sox then poured it on in the eighth, with Andrew Benintendi doubling off Brendan White for a 7.2-point swing and Oscar Colás following with a double off Tyler Holton worth 6.5 percentage points, extending what had become a comfortable lead into a rout. On the Detroit side, Jake Rogers grounded into a double play in the third inning off Mike Clevinger, a sequence that cost the Tigers 7.9 percentage points of win probability and extinguished one of their few opportunities to generate offense.

By the numbers, Moncada finished as the game's top offensive performer with a net WPA of plus-23.8% and an RE24 of plus-1.3, while Robert Jr. added plus-9.2% WPA. The dominant performance, however, belonged to Mike Clevinger, who posted an exceptional plus-43.0% WPA on the mound while holding Detroit to three hits across his outing. Bryan Shaw and Trey Wingenter each completed the shutout without adding or subtracting from the win probability, preserving a result that the DiamondIQ model would have considered a significant upset at first pitch.