Tigers drop another heartbreaker on South Side

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CHICAGO — The White Sox began Sunday afternoon at risk of being swept in a four-game series against the Tigers. Instead, they ended the day with a series split thanks to two walk-off wins in a four-hour span. Melky Cabrera provided the last with a single scoring Adam Eaton in the ninth, nullifying Detroit’s three-homer rally in the top of the inning for a 5-4 White Sox win at U.S. Cellular Field.

After finishing their suspended game from Saturday night with a 4-3 victory on a walk-off single by Eaton, the White Sox picked up where they left off in the series finale but struggled to finish the job after 6 2/3 scoreless innings from Jose Quintana. Nick Castellanos, Tyler Collins and Jarrod Saltalamacchia hit ninth-inning solo homers — the latter two pinch-hit drives — off closer David Robertson to tie it, 4-4.

Three batters later, the White Sox rallied off Bruce Rondon (3-2). Eaton led off the ninth with a single and advanced to second on Tim Anderson’s sacrifice bunt. Cabrera’s single looked much like Eaton’s earlier in the day, a ground ball through the left side.

Robertson (2-2) earned both wins on Sunday, albeit under vastly different circumstances, as …

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