THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: SEPT 20

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THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: SEPT 20

 

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1919: The White Sox dropped a doubleheader at Boston on “Babe Ruth Day” at Fenway Park. 31,000 watched as Ruth homered in the ninth off Lefty Williams to lift the Red Sox to a 4-3 victory. The homer was Ruth’s 27, which tied Ned Williamson’s single-season record set in 1884. In the nightcap, Ruth scored the game-winner in the fifth after a disputed ground-rule double in Boston’s 5-4 triumph. Ruth started the opener on the mound but was relieved in the sixth.

 

1920: White Sox owner Charles Comiskey ordered that a houseboat be constructed for the sole purpose of transporting and housing the team during spring training. The Sox trained in Waco, Texas in 1920 (which is near Lake Waco) and in Lake Waxahachie, Texas (which is near Lake Waxahachie) in 1921. It is not known whether Comiskey had the boat built.

 

1941: Thornton won his 20th game in the White Sox 4-3 win over Detroit before 2,785 at Comiskey Park. Lee became the 16th different pitcher (32nd time) to win 20 games and the first since Vern Kennedy won 21 in 1936. 1941 was the best year of Lee’s career. The left-hander finished 22-11 while leading the American League with a 2.37 ERA and 30 complete games.

 

1991: Bo Jackson forced extra innings with a dramatic two-out pinch-hit homer off Mark Langston in the Sox 3-2 overtime win vs. California before 32,273 at Comiskey Park. In the 11th, Sammy Sosa sprinted home from second on Lance Johnson’s infield single with the game-winner.

 

2000: The first-place White Sox scored six runs in the third inning in whipping the Tigers 13-6 in Detroit in reducing their magic number to clinch the AL Central to six. The win enabled the White Sox to reach the 90-victory plateau and set the club season run record. The Sox finished the game with a league-leading 925 runs, which broke the 1936 team record of 920. Charles Johnson sparked a six-run second inning with a solo homer and Paul Konerko finished it off with a three-run double. Ray Durham capped the victory with his third career grand slam in the seventh inning.

 

2001: Josh Paul broke a 4-4 tie with a two-run double in the sixth in leading the White Sox to an emotional 7-5 win over the New York Yankees before 22,284 at Comiskey Park. Paul played with the No. 41 on his chest protector in honor of Vanderbilt teammate Mark Hindy, who was killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center Sept. 11. Magglio Ordonez tied the game in the fifth with a two-run homer that gave him 100 RBI for the third consecutive season. Keith Foulke notched his 39th save, moving into second place on the White Sox single-season list.