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This Day In Sox History...April 11


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April 11, 1917 - The World Championship season began in St. Louis where the Sox battered the Browns 7-2. Jim Scott picked up the win tossing six innings of relief work for Claude ‘‘Lefty’’ Williams. He gave up just four hits and a run. George “Buck” Weaver drove in three runs for the Sox on the day. Just slightly over six months later, after winning 100 games in the regular season, the Sox would win the World Series, four games to two, over John McGraw and the New York Giants.

 

April 11, 1969 - The White Sox initiated Major League Baseball to Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. They were the first home opponent for the expansion Seattle Pilots. The Sox promptly rolled over and died to the new team 7-0 getting shut out by future Sox pitcher Gary Bell who went the distance. Bell would be traded to the Sox that June!

That afternoon the Sox would get nine hits but strand 14 baserunners.

 

April 11, 1982 - When the great blizzard hit the Midwest and forced cancellation of a number of games, the Sox had to open on the road the following week... in New York... with a double header. No problem, as the franchise which had already won a regularly scheduled opening day twin bill in 1971, put the wood to the Yankees winning 7-6 in 12 innings and then 2-0. It was the start of an eight-game winning streak to open the 1982 campaign, the best start to a season in franchise history. They beat the Yankees twice, Boston three times and the Orioles three times.

 

April 11, 2000 - For a man with not a lot of speed he got around the bases fast enough this time! Paul Konerko hit an inside the park home run against Tampa Bay. It came in the first inning off Esteban Yan and drove in two runs as Magglio Ordonez scored ahead of him. The Sox won 13-6.

 

April 11, 2011 - Sox utility player Brent Lillibridge belted the franchise’s 10,000th home run when he took a fast ball from Oakland’s Dallas Braden and hit it out of U.S. Cellular Field. It came in the fifth inning of a game the Sox eventually lost 2-1 in 10 innings. Lillibridge hit a career high 13 home runs that season.

 

 

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