This Day In Sox History...July 28

[Lip Man 1]

July 28, 1931 – The Sox set the franchise record for the most runs ever scored in the eighth inning of a game when they plated 11 runners home to beat the Yankees 14-12 at Yankee Stadium. The Sox trailed 12-3 before the offensive explosion. They had 12 hits in the inning and four of the runs were unearned.

 

July 28, 1963 - Sox second baseman Nellie Fox banged out his 2,500^th career hit, a single to center off the Orioles Dave McNally. It came in the sixth inning of the Sox 4-1 win in Baltimore. Fox would end his career with a total of 2,663 hits…2,470 of them came in a White Sox uniform.

 

July 28, 1976 - John "Blue Moon" Odom and Francisco Barrios combined to throw a no-hitter against the A’s in Oakland. The Sox won it 2-1. It was one of the strangest no-hitters in history. Odom and Barrios combine to walk 11 Oakland hitters! Odom walked nine himself in only five innings.

 

July 28, 1985 – He was a record setting pitcher who appeared in over a thousand games in his 21-year career. Hoyt Wilhelm mastered the most difficult pitch ever, the knuckleball and with it he wound up in the Baseball Hall of Fame, inducted on this date.  Hoyt spent six years with the White Sox from 1963-68 becoming the dominant relief pitcher of the 1960’s.

From 1964-68 with the White Sox, Wilhelm went 41-33 with 99 saves and a 1.92 ERA in 361 games – all coming after his 40th birthday. 

His nickname was “Old Tilt” because of the way his head looked releasing his signature pitch which was almost impossible to hit and for that matter catch! Just in his time with the White Sox Wilhelm was charged with 23 wild pitches that his catchers simply couldn’t handle because of the unusual break.   

 

July 28, 2009 – The Sox Mark Buehrle set the Major League record for most consecutive batters retired at 45 when he took a perfect game into the sixth inning at Minnesota. Mark was coming off his perfect game set the previous week when he blanked Tampa Bay in Chicago. It was Alexi Casilla who walked with two out in the sixth inning that broke the streak.

The 45 straight batters broke the record first set by the Giants Jim Barr in 1972 and tied by Buehrle’s teammate Bobby Jenks in 2007.

[The Kids Can Play]

16 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

July 28, 1931 – The Sox set the franchise record for the most runs ever scored in the eighth inning of a game when they plated 11 runners home to beat the Yankees 14-12 at Yankee Stadium. The Sox trailed 12-3 before the offensive explosion. They had 12 hits in the inning and four of the runs were unearned.

 

July 28, 1963 - Sox second baseman Nellie Fox banged out his 2,500^th career hit, a single to center off the Orioles Dave McNally. It came in the sixth inning of the Sox 4-1 win in Baltimore. Fox would end his career with a total of 2,663 hits…2,470 of them came in a White Sox uniform.

 

July 28, 1976 - John "Blue Moon" Odom and Francisco Barrios combined to throw a no-hitter against the A’s in Oakland. The Sox won it 2-1. It was one of the strangest no-hitters in history. Odom and Barrios combine to walk 11 Oakland hitters! Odom walked nine himself in only five innings.

 

July 28, 1985 – He was a record setting pitcher who appeared in over a thousand games in his 21-year career. Hoyt Wilhelm mastered the most difficult pitch ever, the knuckleball and with it he wound up in the Baseball Hall of Fame, inducted on this date.  Hoyt spent six years with the White Sox from 1963-68 becoming the dominant relief pitcher of the 1960’s.

From 1964-68 with the White Sox, Wilhelm went 41-33 with 99 saves and a 1.92 ERA in 361 games – all coming after his 40th birthday. 

His nickname was “Old Tilt” because of the way his head looked releasing his signature pitch which was almost impossible to hit and for that matter catch! Just in his time with the White Sox Wilhelm was charged with 23 wild pitches that his catchers simply couldn’t handle because of the unusual break.   

 

July 28, 2009 – The Sox Mark Buehrle set the Major League record for most consecutive batters retired at 45 when he took a perfect game into the sixth inning at Minnesota. Mark was coming off his perfect game set the previous week when he blanked Tampa Bay in Chicago. It was Alexi Casilla who walked with two out in the sixth inning that broke the streak.

The 45 straight batters broke the record first set by the Giants Jim Barr in 1972 and tied by Buehrle’s teammate Bobby Jenks in 2007.

I remember that second Mark Buehrle game. He was so fun to watch pitch, as well as a class act great guy.