1901
With a three-game lead within the race for the pennant, the White Sox hosted the second place Boston People at South Facet Park within the begin of a four-game set. A 3-run rally within the fourth, fueled by one in all Herm McFarland’s two doubles on the day, led to a 4-1 win. Nixey Callahan went the space on the mound for the winners, tossing a five-hitter and doubling within the effort.
The White Sox would go on to comb the People, extending their lead within the pennant race to seven video games and pushing their magic quantity into single digits.
1954
One of many linchpins of the famed White Sox pitching workers of the late 1950’s, Dick Donovan, was bought from Double-A Atlanta within the Milwaukee Braves group. Dick would win 73 video games in six seasons on the South Facet, together with a pair of one-hitters and an All-Star look in 1955.
1960
In a recreation at Comiskey Park, infielder Sammy Esposito booted a cinch double-play ball hit by future Sox infielder Invoice Skowron with the Sox main within the eighth inning, 4-2. The lead rapidly evaporated, because the Yankees rallied for 4 runs and a 6-4 win.
Followers Willie Harris and his good friend, Jesse James (I swear, I’m not making the names up), had a wager on the sport. When Esposito blew the bottom ball, Harris took issues into his personal arms. He jumped over the field seat railing, ran on to the sector, and had phrases with Esposito. Then the 2 began throwing punches! It took a number of uniformed cops and ushers to tug Harris off of Esposito. Harris left the sector shouting that he was “An actual Sox fan.”
1970
The White Sox had been swept by the A’s in a Monday doubleheader at Comiskey Park, in entrance of 6,115 followers. Because the losses dropped Chicago to 49-92 on the season, the sweep was not exceptional. However what was? That with September’s expanded rosters, the Pale Hose used 13 gamers and 5 pitchers within the 7-4 opening loss, and 16 gamers and 7 pitchers within the 7-5 nightcap loss. The 41 whole gamers in a doubleheader set a significant league file.
Coincidentally, the White Sox performed 20 doubleheaders within the 106-loss 1970 season, dropping 13 of them and splitting seven — a 7-33 file in twinbills alone! The crew’s doubleheader successful share of .175 was roughly twice as unhealthy as its general .346 successful share. Or put one other means, take away doubleheaders in 1970, and the White Sox performed at a much-improved, 65-win tempo.
1974
In one of many earliest deployments of a radar gun throughout an MLB recreation, White Sox reliever Terry Forster was recorded as throwing 94.9 mph from the Anaheim Stadium press field. In the identical contest, Angels starter Nolan Ryan was clocked at 100.8 mph marking the second-ever triple digit studying (Ryan had hit 100.9 mph on August 20 at Anaheim Stadium.) White Sox rookie Jack Kucek, the opposing starter within the recreation, was twice recorded at 90.4 mph.
Forster’s fastball, tame by right now’s requirements, stood because the seventh-fastest pitch ever recorded. Kucek’s ranked sixteenth.
The White Sox misplaced the sport, 3-1.
2017
With an 11-2 win on the White Sox, Cleveland units a brand new franchise file of 15 consecutive wins. Beginning pitcher Mike Pelfrey gave up three of the guests’ 5 longballs.
