How to watch Detroit Tigers’ game vs. Chicago White Sox that’s not on Bally Sports

Detroit Tigers (23-25) vs. Chicago White Sox (21-31)

When: 6:40 p.m. Friday.

Where: Comerica Park in Detroit.

TV: Apple TV+ (online only, no Bally Sports Detroit broadcast).

Radio: WXYT-FM (97.1; Tigers radio affiliates).

Starting pitchers: Tigers LHP Joey Wentz (1-4, 7.45 ERA) vs. White Sox RHP Lance Lynn (3-4, 6.28 ERA).

• Box score

Tigers lineup:

3B Zach McKinstry

CF Riley Greene

SS Javier Báez

1B Spencer Torkelson

2B Nick Maton

LF Akil Baddoo

DH Miguel Cabrera

RF Matt Vierling

C Jake Rogers

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Game notes: It’s time to dig out that Apple TV login once more, as the Tigers’ game against the ChiSox will be only available online (or on WXYT-FM, if you’re willing to let your mind paint the pictures from Dan Dickerson’s voice) — Matt Shepard and Craig Monroe get the night off.

Old friend — he turned 36 a couple weeks ago — Lance Lynn takes the mound for the 11^th time this season, coming off arguably his best start of 2023: six innings with just four hits allowed, two walks, two runs and six strikeouts. The problem for Lynn this season has been his four-seam fastball. Once one of the best pitches in the game — it carried a minus-32 run value back in 2019 , minus-16 in 2021 and even minus-9 as recently as last year. This year, however, it’s at plus-8; Lynn still has some of the best fastball spin in the majors (85^th percentile, according to Statcast), but his velocity is down to the 48^th percentile. (Back in 2019, those percentiles were 91 and 53, by comparison.) Still, Lynn has dominated the Tigers in the past, with a 3.39 ERA and 70 strikeouts (and just 17 walks) in 63⅔ innings over 11 starts.

Tigers starter Joey Wentz could also use some improvement with his four-seamer, with a plus-8 run value has arguably been worse than Lynn’s; its run value per 100 pitches is plus-2.7, with Lynn’s coming in at plus-1.7. (Lynn and Wentz are tied with eight other pitchers, including Tigers reliever Mason Englert, for the fourth-worst four-seamer in the majors this season. Only St. Louis’ Jack Flaherty, at plus-10, Oakland’s Ken Waldichuk, at plus-11, and Oakland’s Kyle Muller, at plus-15, have been worse.)

After tonight’s game, the Tigers and ChiSox wrap up the series with a pair of day games on Saturday and Sunday. After that, the Tigers open a three-game series against the AL West-leading Texas Rangers — no, we can’t quite believe we typed those words, either — with a day game on Memorial Day, while the Sox return home for a Monday night game against the Los Angeles Angels.

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