THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 9

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THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 9

 

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1903: The White Sox were incorporated under Illinois law with $5,000 capital.

 

 

 

1905: Doc White set a White Sox record with 13 strikeouts in a 3-2 win in 14 innings at Philadelphia.

 

 

 

1917: The future World Series champion White Sox moved into first place with a 5-4 win over the Senators in Washington. The White Sox will exchange the top spot with the Red Sox until Aug. 18 before taking over first for good.

 

 

 

1933: Luke Appling’s walkoff home run powered the White Sox to a 10-9 win over the Tigers at Comiskey Park. The Sox forced extra innings with five in the bottom of the ninth. Future Hall of Famer Ted Lyons got the win in relief.

 

 

 

1962: Al Zanni turned in 4.1 innings of shutout relief and was rewarded with the win in an 8-5 win at Minnesota. The Sox scored three in the sixth to take the lead for good thanks to a Floyd Robinson triple and an Al Smith sac fly. Zanni, in relief of Early Wynn, gave up one hit and fanned four for his fourth win.

 

 

 

1963: Ron Hansen’s two-out double in the ninth broke a 2-2 tie and lifted the White Sox to a 4-3 win at Kansas City. The victory pushed the Sox into first place by a half game. Juan Pizarro worked two scoreless innings in relief for the victory. In the ninth, Pizarro struck out Ken Harrelson, making his big league debut, for the second out.

 

 

 

1964: The first-place White Sox improved to 30-14 with a 9-5 win over Baltimore before 29,465 at Comiskey Park. Floyd Robinson drove in three while Tommy McCraw and winning pitcher Juan Pizarro, who moved to 7-2, each drove in two runs.

 

 

 

1970: Bill Melton clubbed two home runs and Tommy McCraw drove in two in the White Sox 4-2 win at Boston. Jerry Janeski went the distance for his fifth win. His only mistake was a two-run homer to Carl Yastrzemski in the sixth.

 

 

 

1971: The White Sox lost to the Indians 3-1 in Cleveland. In his Major League debut, Ed Farmer earned the save for the Indians. Farmer made his debut against the White Sox exactly eight years to the day that future fellow White Sox broadcaster Ken Harrelson did the same. In another strange twist of coincidence, Harrelson was the Indians’ starting left fielder but was not in the game when Farmer closed it out.

 

 

 

1972: Bill Melton’s three-run homer in the sixth was the all the White Sox needed in a 3-1 win over Milwaukee before 11,871 at Comiskey Park. Wilbur Wood went the distance and gave up six hits and three walks with one strikeout in upping his record to 9-4.

 

 

 

1973: A two-run triple in the first inning by Bill Melton sent the White Sox to a 6-3 win at Cleveland. Luis Alvarado also drove in two runs as the White Sox bested future Hall of Famer and 300-game winner Gaylord Perry.

 

 

 

1974: Ron Santo, starting at second base, hit two homers – including an inside-the-park home run -- in the White Sox 10-6 loss to the Boston Red Sox before 16,678 at Comiskey Park. The multi-homer game, the 26th and last of his career, came a day after Santo hit a grand slam. The former Cub would hit just one more homer for the Sox the rest of the season.

 

 

 

1975: Hank Aaron made his Comiskey Park debut as the Brewers’ designated hitter in the White Sox 1-0 loss. 4,949 on the Southside witnessed Aaron’s 1-for-3 performance. Aaron’s hit was an eighth-inning single off Rich Gossage.

 

 

 

1976: Pat Kelly’s two-run triple in the seventh put the White Sox over the top in a 4-2 win over the Brewers in Milwaukee. Kelly’s triple scored Jack Brohamer and Bucky Dent and made a winner out of Rich Gossage, who notched his fifth victory as a starter. Clay Carroll worked two scoreless innings for his sixth save.

 

 

 

1977: Wayne Nordhagen’s two-out single in the 11th got the White Sox past the Rangers 4-3 in Texas. Alan Bannister went 5-for-6 while Larry Anderson earned his only win with the Sox with 2.2 shutout innings of relief.

 

 

 

1978: The White Sox rewarded Ron Schueler with a victory in a 4-3 win – their fifth in a row -- at Texas. Schueler took over for starter Pablo Torrealaba in the first and fashioned six strong innings, allowing just one run on four hits.Lerrin LaGrow wasn’t too shabby either. He took over for Schueler and turned in three shutout innings for the save. Bill Nahordny’s single in the sixth gave the Sox the lead good and made sure all that awesome relief pitching would not go to waste.

 

 

 

1979: The White Sox scored five times in the final two innings in surging past the Brewers 6-2 in Milwaukee. A two-run shot by Bill Nahorodny in the eighth and a two-run shot by Chet Lemon in the ninth led the rampage. Bruce Howard, making his third big league start, gave up one in seven innings for his first big league victory.

 

 

 

1981: Richard Dotson continued his hot first half by blanking the Toronto Blue Jays 3-0 before 8,534 at Comiskey Park. Wayne Nordhagen’s two-run, inside-the-park homer highlighted the White Sox offense. The whitewashing was Dotson’s fourth and last of the season. The 22-year old right-hander would end up tying for the American League lead with those four shutouts. Nordhagen’s inside the park homer was the first by a Sox player at Comiskey Park since Ron Santo hit one on the very same date in 1974.

 

 

 

1984: Greg Luzinski hit a grand slam for the second consecutive day and the White Sox got to .500 by topping Minnesota 6-1 before 34,239 at Comiskey Park. Luzinski became only the ninth player (10th time) in modern history to hit grand slams in consecutive games. Floyd Bannister went the distance for the win as the Sox pulled to within a game of first place in the American League West.

 

 

 

1985: Tom Seaver picked up his 294th victory in a 5-1 win at Minnesota. Seaver gave up one run on five hits with one walk and three strikeouts in 7.2 innings for his sixth win of 1985. Harold Baines drove in two runs while Daryl Boston and Luis Salazar homered as the Sox won for the second straight day in the Metrodome.

 

 

 

1986: In a battle of one 300-game winner and a future 300-game winner, California’s Don Sutton picked up his 299th career win by outdueling the White Sox and 306-game winner Tom Seaver 3-0 before 19,611 at Comiskey Park. Sutton’s gem ended the White Sox four-game winning streak.

 

 

 

1989: Harold Baines homered and Carlton Fisk and Dan Pasqua notched RBIs as part of a three-run first in the White Sox 8-3 win at Minnesota. Jerry Reuss got the win in improving to 5-2.

 

 

 

1990: The surprising White Sox improved to 33-19 with a 4-2 win at Minnesota thanks to 2.2 innings of shutout relief by Barry Jones and Bobby Thigpen, who earned his mind-boggling 19th save. Carlton Fisk’s homer, his fourth, highlighted an 11-hit attack.

 

 

 

1991: Jack McDowell improvedto 7-3 with a complete game effort in the White Sox 8-2 win at Kansas City. The lanky right-hander gave up just four hits while walking two and striking out three for his second consecutive complete game. Matt Merullo, McDowell’s batterymate, went 3-for-4 with two RBIs.

 

 

 

1992: Frank Thomas drove in the tying and winning runs in the White Sox 4-2 win over the California Angels before 29,906 at Comiskey Park. Thomas, who was 3-for-4 with a homer and three RBI, plated Tim Raines with the tying run in the third and then put the Sox ahead to stay with a solo homer in the fifth. Thomas’ triple plated an insurance run in the seventh. Greg Hibbard pitched 7.2 shutout innings for the win while Scot Radinsky got the final out, a strikeout, for his second save.

 

 

 

1996: The White Sox moved into a first place tie with Cleveland by ripping the Baltimore Orioles 12-9 at Camden Yards. Frank Thomas’ seventh inning homer was the 200th of his career. The blast enabled Thomas to join Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire as the only active players to reach the 200-homer mark within six years of his Major League debut. Harold Baines and Paco Martin each had three hits while Danny Tartabull homered as part of the Sox 18-hit attack.

 

 

 

2000: The White Sox opened a three-game series with the Cubs with a 6-5 win in 14 innings before 44,140 at Comiskey Park. Ray Durham’s singled off Daniel Garibay scored Herbert Perry with the winning run to end the 4 hour and 42 minute affair. Sammy Sosa’s two-run homer in the ninth forced extra innings but Bill Simas and Jesus Pena combined to hold the Cubs hitless over the final five innings with Pena earning his first career victory.

 

 

 

2002: The White Sox received six RBIs from Magglio Ordonez and seven solid innings from Mark Buehrle in downing the Expos 13-2 in an interleague tilt before 21,870 at Comiskey Park.

 

 

 

2006: Jermaine Dye drove in the tying and go-ahead runs with a single in the eighth to deliver the White Sox a 5-4 win over Cleveland before 33,909 at US Cellular Field.

 

 

 

SOX STUMPER

 

Who was the White Sox first round pick in 1990 (answer tomorrow)?

 

 

 

YESTERDAY'S ANSWER

 

Joe Borchard was the White Sox first round pick in 2000.

 

 

 

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.