Eloy Jiménez has proven time and again that he can bring fireworks with the bat. But on Thursday afternoon in Chicago, the young White Sox star showed he's a man of many talents, leaping at the wall to bring back a home run.
With two outs in the top of the fifth inning, Tigers outfielder Nicholas Castellanos sent what looked like a homer to left that would have increased Detroit's lead. Jimenez measured it up on the warning track and reeled it in over the wall, ending the inning and keeping the White Sox within striking distance with a one-run deficit.
Jimenez's robbery picked up starter Reynaldo Lopez, who had allowed two runs in that fifth inning and exited after allowing seven runs (six earned) on nine hits in 5 1/3 innings.
After the Tigers put up seven runs during the fifth and sixth innings, Jimenez turned the tables on Detroit in the bottom of the sixth. He cracked his 15th homer of the season 436 feet to dead center field, per Statcast, way out of the reach of center fielder Victor Reyes. The two-run shot cut Chicago's deficit to 8-4.