THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: MAY 16

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Couldn't update my aol blog so here is the whole thing ...

 

MAY 16TH

 

WHITESOXALMANAC.COM GAME OF THE DAY:

SOX BYRNE YANKS WITH SLAM

1953: Pitcher Tommy Byrne’s pinch-hit grand slam in the eighth inning lifted the White Sox to an improbable 5-3 win over the New York Yankees before 24,966 at Yankee Stadium. Byrne victimized Ewell Blackwell and was pinch-hitting for Vern Stephens, who had 10 career grand slams. The slam was the second of Byrne’s career.

 

1902: Wiley Piatt tossed the second one-hitter in White Sox history in a 2-1 win over the St. Louis Browns at South Side Park. The Sox got their two runs in the third while the Browns scratched in the ninth.

 

1918: Dan Danforth tossed 10-plus innings of scoreless relief in the White Sox 4-2 win in at Washington. Washington KO’d Sox starter Joe Benz in the first and Danforth posted zeroes the rest of the way and was rewarded with a win when the Sox scored two in the 11th.

 

1944: The White Sox defeated the Yankees 10-4 at Yankee Stadium in stopping New York pitcher Hank Bowory’s winning streak, which spanned two seasons, at 11 games. Bill Dietrich was the winner for the Sox.

 

1965: Eddie Fisher saved both games as the first-place and streaking White Sox swept a doubleheader from the Angels 6-2 and 5-4 before 17,905 at Comiskey Park. The sweep extended the Sox winning streak to seven and improved their record to 21-8.

 

1969: The White Sox survived a three home run outburst by Mike Epstein in beating the Senators 7-6 before 10,200 at Comiskey Park. Carlos May gave the Sox the lead for good with a homer in the seventh.

 

1978: The White Sox traded outfielder Bobby Bonds to the Texas Rangers for outfielders Claudell Washington and Rusty Torres.

 

1981: Harold Baines went 4-for-4 and Britt Burns went the distance in defeating the Texas Rangers 9-1 before 20,206 at Comiskey Park. The Sox used a five-run second inning, which featured two RBIs each from Jim Morrison and Bill Almon, in making things easy for Burns, who improved to 3-2.

 

1982: The White Sox ignited a six-game winning streak with a 6-1 win over the Milwaukee Brewers before 21,339 at Comiskey Park. Steve Kemp and Tom Paciorek provided the RBIs which gave the Sox the lead for good in the seventh. Starting pitcher Steve Trout’s victory improved the White Sox record to 21-12.

 

1984: Carlton Fisk became the first and only White Sox player to hit for the cycle at Old Comiskey Park in a 7-6 loss to the Royals before 21,669 at 35th and Shields. Fisk doubled in the first, singled in the second, homered in the fourth and tripled in the seventh in joining Jack Brohamer and Ray Schalk as the only players in Sox history to hit for the cycle. Fisk had a chance to win the game in the ninth but bounced into a double play to kill a rally.

 

1986: Reid Nichols’ three-run double in the fifth pushed the White Sox to a 4-2 win over Kansas City before 24,215 at Comiskey Park. Starter Richard Dotson got the win and got relief help from Gene Nelson, who fashioned 3.2 scoreless innings, and Bob James, who got the game’s final out for the save.

 

1990: Carlos Martinez clubbed a two-run home run and added a double in leading the White Sox past Baltimore 4-2 before 20,042 at Comiskey Park. Ozzie Guillen added two hits and Ivan Calderon swiped a career-high three bases in support of rookie Jerry Kutzler, who notched his second win of the season.

 

1992: Frank Thomas launched a 466-foot home run in the White Sox 7-2 loss to the Baltimore Orioles before 40,903 at Comiskey Park. The blast off Bob Milacki landed on the concourse in left field and was the second-longest in the history of the park at the time behind only Dan Pasqua’s 484-foot blast on April 27, 1991.

 

1993: In his best day in a White Sox uniform, Ellis Burks hit two homers, including a grand slam, and drove in six in the a 15-8 win at Texas. Burks’ grand slam, the seventh of his career, came in the second inning. Bo Jackson, Ron Karkovice and Robin Ventura also homered as the Sox banged out 17 hits.

 

2000: Cal Eldred, Bob Howry and Keith Foulke combined on a three-hitter in the White Sox 4-0 win at Yankee Stadium. The shutout was the first by the White Sox at Yankee Stadium since July 12, 1990 when Melido Perez tossed a rain-shortened no-hitter vs. the Bronx Bombers. The shutout was the first nine-inning whitewashing by the Sox at Yankee Stadium since Neil Allen fired a two-hitter on July 20, 1986. Eldred went the first six, scatted three singles, walked four and struck out four to improve to 3-2. The White Sox sealed the deal with two in the ninth off Mariano Rivera.

 

2002: Danny Wright fired a five-hit gem in the White Sox 4-0 win over the Texas Rangers before 13,119 at Comiskey Park. Wright walked one and struck out four in dispatching the Rangers in a Mark Buehrle-like 2 hours and 16 minutes. This was the only shutout and complete game of Wright’s career, which was cut short by injury in the 2004 season.

 

2004: The White Sox got three hits each from Magglio Ordonez, Carlos Lee and Jose Valentin in whitewashing Minnesota 11-0 before 26,348 at US Cellular Field. Valentin homered and drove in four and Joe Crede also went deep to make things easy on starter Mark Buehrle, who pitched into the seventh for his third victory.

 

SOX STUMPER

What college did Robin Ventura attend (answer tomorrow)?

 

YESTERDAY'S ANSWER

Stan Bahnsen threw the Sox only one-hitter of the 1970s on Aug. 21, 1973.

 

 

Editor's Note: Information for these entries is gleaned from the author's files, retrosheet.org, various Internet sources, press reports of the day, White Sox media guides and the many White Sox books written by the great Rich Lindberg.

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Robin went to Oaklahoma State University