THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: OCT 2ND/Fix, '59 series

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THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: OCT 2ND

 

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1904: Doc White’s streak of 45 consecutive scoreless innings was snapped in a 7-1 win in the first game of a doubleheader against the New York Highlanders in Chicago.

 

1908: Addie Joss fired a perfect game in Cleveland’s 1-0 win over the White Sox in Ohio. Joss outdueled Ed Walsh, who set a Sox record with 15 strikeouts in the game. Cleveland got its only run when catcher Ossee Schreckengost couldn’t hang on to one of Walsh’s spitters and Cleveland’s Joe Birmingham crossed in the third inning. The pitch was so effective that it broke Schreckengost’s hand. It was the first of two no-hitters Joss would throw against the White Sox. On April 20, 1910, Joss no-hit the White Sox 1-0 in Chicago. Joss’ gem in 1908 is the only perfect game thrown against the White Sox.

 

1919: The White Sox dropped Game 2 of the ill-fated 1919 World Series 4-2 in Cincinnati. Lefty Williams, one of the eight Sox players in on the Series fix, was the losing pitcher. He gave up four runs on four hits on four walks. The Reds scored three in the fourth and one in the sixth to ice the game. The Sox scored their two runs on errors in the seventh inning. The Series was expanded to a best-of-nine from 1919 to 1921 because of heightened interest in the event. The eight Sox players in on the fix were eventually banned from baseball for life by Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis during the 1920 season.

 

1959: The Los Angeles Dodgers pulled even with a 4-3 win over the White Sox in Game 2 of the 1959 World Series before 47,368 at Comiskey Park. The Sox scored twice in the first inning on RBIs by Ted Kluszewski and Sherm Lollar. After scoring once in the fifth, the Dodgers overtook the Sox with a three-run seventh. Chuck Essegian’s solo homer and Charlie Neal’s two-run shot off Bob Shaw were the difference. The Sox got a run in the eighth on Al Smith’s double but the rally was blunted when Lollar – the tying run -- was thrown out at the plate.

 

1972: Buddy Bradford hit the first grand slam by a White Sox player in October. Bradford accomplished the feat in a pinch-hitting role in Minnesota. The pinch-hit grand slam was the seventh in White Sox history and the first since Sherm Lollar accomplished the feat July 9, 1961.

 

2005: The White Sox concluded the regular season with a 3-1 win at Cleveland.Jermaine Dye, settling in nicely in the three hole, put the Sox on top in a hurry with a home run – his 31st – with two out in the first. The Sox added single runs in the second and third innings to support starter and winner Brandon McCarthyand relievers Luis Vizcaino and Orlando Hernandez, who tossed the final two innings for the save. The Sox finished 99-63 and six games ahead of Cleveland in winning their first AL Central title in five years.

 

 

[Yossarian]

1919 - Lots of his fans want to exonerate Joe Jackson, but he did in fact take money. The same is not true of Buck Weaver, so in that regard it pains me to see eight players named in the fix. Years after his death, some still fight on to clear his name. He's the only one of the eight that deserves it IMO.

 

1959 - I can still see Lollar being tagged out at the plate in game 2. You think Konerko is slow? Compared to Lollar he's a track star. The usually reliable third base coach Tony Cuccinello inexplicably waved Lollar home, and he was as they used to say when I was a kid, "out by a mile". It was the most awful running gaffe you'd ever want to see and it switched all the momentum to the Dodgers.