The Detroit Tigers are laughing at themselves after a bad victory

"Good win for our baseball team," Gardenhire said. "Crazy victory. It was wild there. You do not win much when you make four mistakes, I'll tell you. "

The 9-7 win was over, with Niko Goodrum beating with the wind to catch a foul at first base. Despite the missing sixth setback and a lost lead of the eighth inning, the Tigers made the biggest possible advance by organizing a uniform offense.

"I just went to make sure we're going to have fun," Gardenhire said. "Start having fun and playing baseball, and that's what we did."

The Tigers were laughing, said Gardenhire, which is easier when you run around bases like they did late in the game.

It was not quite beautiful – Nicholas Castellanos led the winning race on a propelled field in the center of the eighth – but the Tigers recorded 14 hits, struck only four times and demonstrated their ability to put the ball in the lead. 'attack.

It was certainly not easy – JaCoby Jones and Josh Harrison were hit by shots after failing to make sacrifices, which charged the bases without anyone missing in the eighth – but they will accept it.

"I told them to stop worrying about all this," Gardenhire said. "I do not want to talk about it anymore, talk about two-key approaches, all I want to do is that these guys have fun."

Laughter, he says, went both ways.

What was a scant mid-way match opened the way with two outs in the sixth inning, right-hander Tyson Ross cruising and a ground ball at the top of Goodrum's goals. The mistake was the first of three tigers in that heat: Grayson Greiner sent a shot to second base and then, after Ross gave White Sox rookie Eloy Jimenez a home point, Gordon Beckham threw a shot at the stop short.

Ross's line did not reflect his efficiency: he allowed five points in six innings, although the three points of the sixth were not won. He gave seven hits, removed two batters and did not.

The two teams exchanged shots from there, with Gardenhire putting his pitchers in a hitter too late – Ryan Cordell dominated Ross to start the seventh and Yonder Alonso pushed one-two against left-handed Blaine Hardy to start a rally in Chicago in the eighth – and sometimes it seemed that neither one nor the other of the two teams would win.

Wanting to protect a two-point lead in the eighth end, Victor Alcantara – the first choice to take on the role of Joe Jimenez – made a bad pitch by sliding a slider towards Wellington Castillo.

While the strong winds were blowing throughout the day and rain was blowing from the west, Greiner led eighth with a single, before the Tigers took advantage of the White striker's savagery. Sox, Carson Fulmer.

Fulmer hit the batters back to back – Harrison was hit on the left wrist and sank into pain; he stayed in the match and an X-ray test gave negative results, Gardenhire said – before Castellanos and Cabrera hit sacrificial flies.

Shane Greene scored his ninth save of the season, finished when Goodrum took one of his odd routes to get alive.

"The guys were all over him," Gardenhire said. "Niko, you played all the game!" But Niko likes to take different paths. "

No matter how ugly it was, it was a win and it was fun.

So much so, they laughed at themselves.

"We're laughing in there," Gardenhire said. "We missed a few balls, the guys laughed saying," He stinks, "so we're good."

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