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- Updated: August 3, 2016
DETROIT — Anibal Sanchez looked around and saw White Sox baserunners at first and second. He looked at the plate and saw pesky rookie Tim Anderson, with Melky Cabrera looming on deck. The big inning that had plagued Sanchez in so many starts this season was at hand.
It got lost by the end of Tuesday’s 11-5 Tigers win over the White Sox, but the game turned in the fifth — not just the six runs Detroit scored in the bottom of the inning, but the runs Sanchez prevented at the top.
“For me, that’s the key of the game,” said Sanchez, whose six innings of one-run ball earned him his first win as a starter since April 28.
Not only had Sanchez not won a start in over three months, the Tigers had lost every one of his 11 starts since, in large part due to the big inning. So often, it happened during the third trip through a batting order, which in Tuesday’s case had just begun with Adam Eaton before his walk moved Tyler Saladino to second base …
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