Chicago White Sox at Detroit Tigers: Final Score & Recap

The Chicago White Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers 7-5 at Comerica Park on August 16, 2026, in a game that began as a promising home stand for Detroit before Chicago methodically seized control. The DiamondIQ model opened with a dead-even 50 percent home win probability and closed it at zero, reflecting just how completely the White Sox dominated the late innings to erase an early Detroit advantage.

The decisive swing came in the top of the seventh inning, when Munetaka Murakami connected on a home run off Tyler Holton, a play that shifted win probability by plus 23.3 percent in Chicago's favor and represented the single largest momentum-altering moment of the game. That blow capped a string of Chicago scoring that had already begun unraveling Detroit's second-inning cushion. Drew Romo had added a home run off Drew Anderson in the top of the fifth, a plus 16.1 percent WPA swing that kept the White Sox push alive, while Brett Callahan's triple off Sean Burke in the bottom of the second, worth plus 14.1 percent WPA, had given Detroit its early foothold. Javier Báez's groundout in the bottom of the eighth off Sean Newcomb cost the Tigers 16.5 percent in win probability, and Dillon Dingler's strikeout to end the ninth added another plus 14.4 percent from Chicago's perspective, sealing the outcome.

Among individual performers, Dingler led all players with a plus 29.9 percent WPA contribution in a losing effort, while Murakami finished at plus 18.7 percent WPA with a plus 1.0 RE24 and Callahan posted plus 13.5 percent WPA and a plus 1.9 RE24 to pace Detroit's offense. On the pitching side, Sean Newcomb was the standout for Chicago with a plus 18.1 percent WPA, followed by Hagen Smith at plus 12.3 percent and Tanner Rainey at plus 4.2 percent as the White Sox bullpen held the line through the final frames.