THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 2/Gnats, Coluccio and Kravec!

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THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 2/Gnats, Coluccio and Kravec!

 

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1959: The White Sox game with the Orioles is delayed by 30 minutes when gnats swarm Comiskey Park. Bugspray did not work but the postgame fireworks show accompanied by a bug bomb did and the game was able to resume. Unfortunately, the Sox lost 3-2.

 

1963: The White Sox handed Wilbur Wood the first loss of his career in a 10-0 win over the Boston Red Sox in the second game of a doubleheader before 30,255 at Comiskey Park. Wood, making his first start of the season and the third of his career, gave up one earned run in five innings but was outdueled by Juan Pizarro, who gave up four hits and struck out six for his fourth win.

 

1969: Carlos May’s eighth-inning grand slam off Sparky Lyle gave the White Sox the lead for good in a 6-4 win at Boston. May’s slam came with Tommy McCraw, Walt Williams and Luis Aparicio on base and made a winner out of reliever Cisco Carlos and was the first of three he would hit in his career with the Sox.

 

1975: Leadoff hitter Bobby Coluccio doubled and tripled and scored twice in the White Sox 9-2 win over the Red Sox at Fenway Park. The Sox scored three in the fourth, one in the seventh on a Coluccio double and a Bucky Dent single and five in the ninth. Stan Bahnsen went the distance for his fourth win.

 

1977: The Southside Hit Men White Sox did all of their damage in the first three innings in holding off Baltimore 7-4 before 8,331 at Comiskey Park. Jim Essian drove in three runs in support of starter Francisco Barrios, who won his fifth game. Dave Hamilton pitched the final 1.2 innings for this third save.

 

1979: Ken Kravec blanked the defending World Series champion New York Yankees in the a 7-0 win in the Bronx. Kravec limited a lineup that included Mickey Rivers, Willie Randolph, Thurman Munson and Reggie Jackson to three hits while facing just two over the minimum. Kravec, a lefty, walked two and struck out three in moving to 6-3. He gave up a hit in the first, sixth and seventh innings and retired the last nine batters he faced. Kravec’s shutout was preserved in the sixth when Chris Chambliss was thrown out home to end the frame. A throw from center fielder Chet Lemon to Milt May got Chambliss at the plate.