THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JULY 27TH/Damn Yankees!

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THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JULY 27TH

 

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1951: The Yankees stalled their way to a rain-shortened 3-1 win innings over the White Sox in New York. The Sox took a 4-3 lead in the ninth but the Yankees stalled enough until the rains came. After a 30 minute, the score reverted to the last completed inning of play, which was 3-1 Yankees after eight. In that ninth, the Yankees’ Gil McDougald was ejected for stalling and Yankee manager Casey Stengel used five pitchers to draw things out.

 

1954: Virgil “Fire” Trucks and Phil Cavarretta were key players in the White Sox 4-0 win over the Yankees before 53,067 on the Southside. The hard-throwing Trucks went the distance while Cavarretta drove in a run and scored in the first inning and keyed a rally in the sixth. The game finished as the fifth-most attended game at Old Comiskey Park.

 

1960: The streaking White Sox opened a 1.5-game lead atop the American League with a 10-4 win over the Red Sox in Boston. A five-run seventh, highlighted by Nellie Fox’s two-run double, led the Sox to their 10th win in their last 11 outings.

 

1963: Dave Nicholson went 5-for-10 with a home run, a double and five RBIs and Jim Brosnan saved both games as the White Sox swept a doubleheader at Baltimore. Nicholson homered in the first inning of the Sox 5-3 win in the opener and drove in a run in the four-run second of the 10-1 triumph in the nightcap.