THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 10

[StatManDu]

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 10

 

1914: Eleven days after no-hitting the Cleveland Indians, Joe Benz one-hit the Washington Senators at Comiskey Park. Benz, a 28-year-old right-hander from New Alsace, Ind., outdueled the great Walter Johnson in the 2-0 victory –- the Sox fourth straight.

 

 

 

1930: The White Sox pinned the first loss of the season on the great Lefty Grove in a 7-6 win in 11 innings over the Philadelphia A’s at Comiskey Park. Grove began the season with seven consecutive victories. The Sox led 4-2 after five but the A’s tied it with two in the sixth. The teams swapped deuces in the 10th before the Sox pushed one across in the 11th to make a winner out of lefty reliever Hal McKain.

 

 

 

1938: Starting pitcher Monty Stratton launched a grand slam in the second inning of the White Sox 15-2 thumping of the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Stratton, whose promising career was later derailed by a hunting accident, earned his fourth win of the season. Stratton gave up a homer to Red Sox rookie pitcher Bill Lefebvre in Lefebvre’s first big league at bat. Lefebvre became the first player to homer in his only at bat in a season.

 

 

 

1951: 52,054 crammed Comiskey Park to watch the White Sox and Yankees split a doubleheader. At the time, it was the third-largest crowd at Comiskey Park. Two days earlier, 53,940 watched the Sox and the Yankees go at it. The Yankees won the first game 2-1 while the Sox took the nightcap 11-7. Eddie Robinson broke a 7-7 game in the second game with an RBI single in the seventh inning. Randy Gumpert got the win for the White Sox.

 

 

 

1952: Sam Mele tied an American League record by driving in six runs in an inning in the White Sox 15-4 win at Philadelphia. Mele’s outburst came courtesy of a three-run homer and a three-run triple in the White Sox 12-run fourth inning. The teams combined to score 14 runs in the inning for the highest-scoring fourth inning in American League history. … Off the field, Charlie Comiskey Jr. rejoins the franchise after an absence of five months. Comiskey was re-elected to the board as vice-president.

 

 

 

1958: The White Sox halted a four-game losing streak with a 5-4 win at Washington in the first game of a doubleheader. A four-run seventh, capped by a two-run double from Al Smith, put the Sox ahead to stay.

 

 

 

1959: The White Sox gave Early Wynn two in the first and the big right-hander parlayed into his eighth win in a 4-1 win at Washington. Al Smith’s two-run triple was all the future American League Cy Young winner would need for his eighth victory.

 

 

 

1960: Gene Freese and Jim Landis each drove in three as the White Sox rolled over the Red Sox 13-3 at Boston. Freese, who was 4-for-4, and Landis each brought home a run in a six-run fourth that put the Sox in control. Jim Kemmerer benefited from the outburst, which included 18 hits. The veteran right-hander, who helped his own cause with two sacrifices and an RBI, went the distance for his third win.

 

 

 

1961: Due to failing health and other considerations, Bill Veeck sold his White Sox holdings to former business associate Arthur Allyn Jr. Veeck would later head up a group that purchased the White Sox in December of 1975.

 

 

 

1964: Eddie Fisher induced a game-ending double play ball to preserve the first-place White Sox 2-1 win before 22,080 at Comiskey Park. Fisher entered in relief of winner Gary Peters with one out in the ninth and runners on first third. The knuckleballer got Dick Brown, the only batter he faced, to bounce into a Pete Ward-to-Al Weis-to-Tommy McCraw double play for the Sox fourth straight win, Peters’ seventh victory and Fisher’s first save.

 

 

 

1965: Floyd Robinson’s three-run triple in the seventh delivered the White Sox a 4-2 win at Fenway Park. Gary Peters went six innings for his fifth win while future Hall of Famer Hoyt Wilhelm tossed three shutout innings for his fourth save.

 

 

 

1967: The White Sox pulled to within a half game of first place with a 9-0 win over the Yankees in New York. Gary Peters fired a four-hit shutout and hit his second roundtripper of the season as part of his seventh victory of the season. Don Buford also homered, Pete Ward had doubles and Ed Stroud drove in three as part of an 18-hit attack.

 

 

 

1968: The White Sox scored three in the top of the ninth to pull out a 5-2 victory at New York. Luis Aparicio broke a 2-2 tie with an RBI double and pinch-hitter Bill Voss added a two-run single to make a winner out of reliever Wilbur Wood, who logged four innings.

 

 

 

1969: The White Sox scored three in the sixth and three in the seventh to overtake the Indians for a 9-5 win before 6,055 at Comiskey Park. Carlos May gave the Sox the lead for good with a two-run double in the sixth as part of his four-RBI day.