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Detroit Tigers right-hander Jose Urena wouldn't let his team's five errors rattle him. Chicago White Sox starter Lucas Giolito, an expected American League Cy Young candidate, was dealing on the other end, but that didn't shake Urena's presence.
He chose to block out the uncontrollable.
"His mental toughness stood out," manager AJ Hinch said Tuesday. "He never let the errors behind him, some of the nonplays get to him. He just hung in there and would make a better pitch, and then we would turn the double play. You looked up, and we were hanging in there."
Urena, signed to a one-year, $3.25 million contract this winter, responded to the defensive miscues by inducing four double plays and a career-high 15 ground-ball outs. The 29-year-old gave up seven hits and three walks but held the White Sox in check through seven innings. Of his two runs allowed, only one was earned.