THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: OCT 6/Postseason and Ted Lyons!

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THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: OCT 6

 

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1917: The White Sox opened the 1917 World Series with a 2-1 victory over the New York Giants in the first Fall Classic game ever at Comiskey Park. Ed Cicotte was masterful with his “shine ball” in going the distance before 32,000 at 35th and Shields. Cicotte scattered seven hits, walked one and fanned two. Fred McMullin gave the White Sox a 1-0 lead in the third when his double scored Shano Collins. In the next inning, Happy Felsch hit the first World Series home run by a Sox player to make it 2-0. The Giants scored a run in the fifth but Cicotte retired 12 of the final 13 batters he faced in giving the Sox the upperhand in the Series.

 

1919: The Cincinnati Reds moved to within onewin of clinching the ill-fated 1919 World Series by defeating the White Sox 5-0 in Game 5 before 34,379 at Comiskey Park. Lefty Williams, one of eight Sox players in on the fix of the Series, took his second loss of the Fall Classic. The Reds scored four times in the sixth with the aid of a throwing error by Happy Felsch, who was also in on the fix. 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.

 

1923: Future Hall of Famer Ted Lyons earned the first two of his club-record 260 wins – both in relief -- as the White Sox swept a doubleheader at Cleveland. Lyons, who made his big league debut the previous July 2, fired 4.2 innings in the White Sox 6-3 in the opener and then fired three frames in the 7-6 win in the nightcap.

 

1959: The White Sox stayed alive in the 1959 World Series by squeaking past the Dodgers 1-0 before a Fall Classic record crowd of 92,706 in the Los Angeles Coliseum. The Sox scratched out the game’s lone run in the fourth when Nellie Fox singled to right, took third on Jim Landis’ single and scored on Sherm Lollar’s double play ball. Bob Shaw got the win with 7.1 shutout innings. He got relief help from Dick Donovan, who tossed 1.1 perfect frames. Manager Al Lopez helped preserve the lead by playing a hunch in the eighth. With runners on first and second and two outs, Lopez shifted Al Smith from right field to left field and brought in Jim Rivera to play right. After a wild pitch moved the runners up a base, Rivera made Lopez’ hunch pay off by snaring Charley Neal’s fly in right-center to end the frame.

 

1983: The White Sox managed just five hits off Mike Boddicker in dropping Game 2 of the 1983 American League Championship Series at Baltimore 4-0. Boddicker fanned 14 in tying the LCS record set by Detroit’s Joe Coleman in 1972 and equaled by Pittsburgh’s John Candelaria in 1975. Floyd Bannister absorbed the loss after giving up four runs on five hits in six innings. Rudy Law accounted two of the Sox five hits.

 

1993: The White Sox frittered away another home post-season contest in dropping Game 2 of the American League Championship Series 3-1 before 46,101 at Comiskey Park. The Blue Jays took a 1-0 lead in the first but the Sox responded with a run of their own in the bottom of the frame when Tim Raines scored on a Dave Stewart wild pitch. Toronto scored twice in the fourth off Alex Fernandez to take the lead for good. Like so many post-season games before, the White Sox had their chances in this one. The White Sox scored just one run after loading the bases in the first and came up empty after loading the bases with no outs in the sixth.

 

2000: The Seattle Mariners eliminated the White Sox from the playoffs with a 2-1 win in Game 3 of the American League Division Series at Safeco Field in Seattle. The Sox took a 1-0 lead in the second when Harold Baines doubled, took third on Charles Johnson’s fly and scored on Herbert Perry’s sacrifice fly. Seattle tied the game on Stan Javier’s RBI in the fourth. The Mariners broke the tie in the ninth when Rickey Henderson scored on Carlos Guillen’s squeeze bunt giving them a sweep of the series. The White Sox offensive woes wasted a gutsy performance by James Baldwin, who had battled arm problems in the second half of the season. Baldwin gave up one earned run in six innings.