Kerry Carpenter belted three home runs, Dillon Dingler and Wenceel Perez also homered, and Jack Flaherty pitched six strong innings to lift the Detroit Tigers to a 13-1 rout of the host Chicago White Sox on Monday.Carpenter smacked two-run homers in the first and fourth innings and a solo shot in the sixth for his first career three-home run game. He finished with five RBIs.Parker Meadows, who made his season debut after missing the first two months with a right upper arm nerve issue, contributed two of the Tigers’ 16 hits. Gleyber Torres, Colt Keith, and Perez also had two hits apiece.Flaherty (4-6) cruised behind the hefty run support. He spaced one run and four hits in six innings with one walk and four strikeouts.Chase Meidroth collected a pair of hits for the White Sox, including a double to lead off the game and a single to open the sixth. He scored Chicago’s lone run on Vinny Capra’s RBI groundout in the sixth.Capra later pitched a perfect ninth, retiring the side on nine pitches.White Sox right-hander Jonathan Cannon entered Monday’s start with eight home runs allowed in 11 appearances and nine starts covering 60 2/3 innings.Detroit attacked Cannon from the outset, denting him for three more long balls. After Meadows struck out swinging to open the game, Cannon yielded a single to Torres and a two-run home run to Carpenter. Dingler added a solo shot two batters later.
