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The Tigers pulled one out tonight at Comerica Park in front of 33,615 home faithful. Johnny Peralta hit a two-run walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth to give Detroit a much needed 5-4 victory over the Chicago White sox. Chicago was up 4-2 after Gordon Beckham hit a two-run tiebreaking homer in the seventh inning.

Detroit struck back in the eighth, on a RBI single by Miguel Cabrera. After a one-out single by Alex Avila in the ninth, Peralta's homerun off reliever Matt Thornton just cleared the right field fence bringing the team out of the dugout, and the fans to their feet. Both starting pitchers had good perfomances. Drew Smyly threw six innings giving up seven hits,and only two runs while striking out seven for the Tigers. Jake Peavy threw seven and two-thirds surrendering three runs on seven hits for Chicago.

Neither starter factored into the decision though. The Tigers bullpen gave up two runs in the seventh, as Octavio Dotel gave up Beckham's two-run dinger in the seventh. Duane Below pitched in the eighth, and Jose Valverde pitched the top of the ninth for his second win of the year. The two teams resume the series with a national Fox broadcast on Saturday at 4:05.