This Day In Sox History...August 25

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August 25, 1913 - The Sox purchased the contract of future Hall of Famer, pitcher, Urban “Red” Faber from Des Moines for $3,500 dollars. Faber would go on to win 254 games with four seasons of 20 or more wins with the team.

In the 1917 World Series win over the Giants he’d go 3-1, throwing 27 innings with two complete games and an ERA of 2.33

 

August 25, 1959 - The Sox claimed first baseman Ted Kluszewski off waivers from the Pirates. “Big Klu” helped provide hitting down the stretch for the pennant and would hit three home runs and drive in 10 RBI’s in the six game World Series versus the Dodgers, five of those RBI’s came in the first game, an 11-0 Sox win.

 

August 25, 1967 – After criticizing A’s owner Charlie Finley, power hitter Ken “Hawk” Harrelson was waived by the team. He became a free agent.

With the White Sox in the middle of a four-team race for the pennant, later that same day Sox G.M. Ed Short called Harrelson in his Baltimore hotel room and offered him a one-time contract for $100,000.  

Short said it was a ‘take it or leave it’ offer since he did not want to get into a bidding war. Sox manager Eddie Stanky also got on the phone trying to talk Harrelson into agreeing to join the club.

Harrelson turned down the offer saying in his biography he just wanted more time to consider his situation. He would later agree to a deal with the Red Sox for $118,000 and officially signed with them on August 28. Boston would go on to win the pennant and lose the World Series in seven games to the Cardinals.

Harrelson eventually did make his way to the White Sox joining their broadcasting team for the 1982 campaign.

 

August 25, 1968 - The tensions surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago spilled over to Comiskey Park. During a game against the Twins, supporters of Alabama Governor George Wallace and Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy got into an altercation in the lower left field seats after some of the Wallace supporters were accused of making racial remarks to Sox left fielder Tommy Davis. Security quickly separated the groups and averted a larger brawl.

 

August 25, 1981 - Sox pitcher Dennis Lamp carried a no-hitter into the ninth inning against the Brewers in Milwaukee. Robin Yount led off that inning with a bloop double to left field breaking it up.

The Sox won the game though 5-1. Lamp struck out six and walked one in the night game.

 

August 25, 2013  - It was a feat that hadn’t been achieved since 1947: Jordan Danks homered in a game his brother, John, won.

John went six innings in a 5-2 win over the Rangers to improve his record to 4-10 on the season. Younger by just 16 months, John cracked his third home run of the season, in the fourth inning of the win. It wasn’t even intended to happen this way. Avisaíl García started the game in right field, but was injured crashing into the wall as he tracked Jeff Baker’s home run in the fourth inning. Jordan entered the game as a defensive sub, and in the bottom half of the same frame, cracked a massive home run to right. In his next at-bat, Jordan singled, and finished the day 2 for 3 with bragging rights, for once, over John.

 

August 25, 2020 - In surreal surroundings, no fans at Guaranteed Rate Field due to the pandemic, Sox pitcher, Lucas Giolito no-hit the Pirates winning 4-0.

Giolito allowed only one base runner on a walk in the fourth inning. He struck out 13 hitters on 101 pitches, one of the most dominating performances in baseball no-hitter history. Tim Anderson and Adam Engel made terrific defensive plays to save the no-hitter in the seventh and with two outs in the ninth inning respectively.

It was the 19^th no-hitter in franchise history making them the all-time American League leader in that category.

 

August 25, 2022 – Over the decades the most incredible, strange, bizarre things seem to happen to the White Sox in Baltimore. Games that are ready to be won, are lost in the most astonishing ways, ways that only seem to happen once in a decade except to the White Sox.

Case in point, a night game in Baltimore on this date.

The Sox led the Orioles 3-2 with two out, no one on in the last of the ninth inning. Sox closer Liam Hendriks was working on his 20^th consecutive save. Baltimore outfielder Kyle Stowers sliced a fly ball that drifted into foul ground in left field. Sox outfielder Adam Engel ran to the area, put his glove up…and dropped the ball.

The error gave Stowers a second chance and he promptly hammered a flat curve ball from Hendriks into the seats for the game tying home run. Baltimore would wind up winning the game 4-3 in 11 innings.