This Day In Sox History...August 27

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August 27, 1910 - Comiskey Park hosted the first night game ever played in a Major League stadium as two Chicago amateur clubs played before 20,000 fans. The teams were Logan Square and Rogers Park. 20 arc lights were strung up along the perimeter of the field to accomplish it delivering 137,000 thousand candlepower of light. The system was the brainchild of inventor George F. Cahill. The first ‘official’ night game in Major League history took place in 1935 at Crosley Field in Cincinnati.

 

August 27, 1911 – “Big” Ed Walsh fired a no-hitter against the Red Sox at Comiskey Park. It was the first time a Sox pitcher threw a no-hitter in that stadium. The final was 5-0. Walsh only allowed one base runner, Clyde Engle in the fourth inning, via a walk. He struck out eight in winning his 24^th game of the year.

 

August 27, 2007 - In the midst of a dismal season the Sox produced one highlight. They cranked out four home runs in the seventh inning of a game at U.S. Cellular Field and beat the Devil Rays 5-4. The home runs were hit by A.J. Pierzynski, Jermaine Dye, Juan Uribe and Josh Fields. Pierzynski, Dye and Uribe went back-to-back-to-back.

 

August 27, 2021 – It was one of the wildest games the Sox ever played especially in their series against the Cubs as they came from six runs down to beat them 17-13 at Guaranteed Rate Field.

The Sox trailed 6-0 after a half inning as starter Dallas Keuchel got lit up by the North Siders but then the Sox scored nine unanswered runs to grab a lead that they never lost. Catcher Yasmani Grandal, fresh off the injured list that he went on in early July with a torn knee tendon, drove in a franchise tying eight RBI’s on the night.

Grandal had a pair of three run home runs and a two run double. He went 4 for 6 with two runs scored. Also of note in the game was the relief work by pitcher Reynaldo Lopez. He came on replacing Keuchel in the second inning and retired 15 straight Cubs striking out seven. He became the first Sox relief pitcher to retire 15 in a row since Ed Cicotte in 1917!