THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: OCT 7/EL DUQUE!

[StatManDu]

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: OCT 7

 

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1917: The White Sox took a 2-0 lead in the 1917 World Series with a 7-2 win over the New York Giants before 32,000 at Comiskey Park. Clarence “Pants” Rowland’s team broke open a 2-2 game with five runs in the fourth inning. Nemo Leibold gave the Sox the lead for good when his single scored Buck Weaver. Joe Jackson drove in two runs while Fred McMullin and Eddie Collins each drove in one in the outburst. Future Hall of Famer Red Faber cruised with the lead. Faber went the distance and did not allow a run after the second inning. BuckWeaver and Joe Jackson had three hits apiece for the White Sox.

 

1919: Dickie Kerr turned in an iron-man performance in keeping the White Sox alive in the ill-fated 1919 World Series. Kerr, who was not one of the eight Sox players in on the fix of the Series, went 10 innings for the victory in the 5-4 triumph in Cincinnati. The White Sox fell behind early but scored one in the fifth on a sacrifice fly RBI by Eddie Collins and three in the sixth on RBIs by Joe Jackson and Happy Felsch, who were in on the fix, and Ray Schalk. The Sox got the game-winner in the 10th when Weaver doubled, took third on Jackson’s bunt and scored on Chick Gandil’s single. Weaver knew of the fix while Gandil was in on it. The victory pulled the Sox to within 4-2 of the best-of-nine Series. 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.

 

1983: The Baltimore Orioles took command of the American League Championship Series by thumping the White Sox 11-1 in Game 3 of the set before 46,645 at Comiskey Park. Eddie Murray, who was hitless in his previous 29 post-season plate appearances dating to the 1979 World Series, launched a three-run homer in the first off losing pitcher Richard Dotson in helping the Orioles take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series. The White Sox managed a run in the second on Vance Law’s RBI but were shut down over the final four innings by Sammy Stewart, who took over for starter Mike Flanagan, who left the game with stiffness in his knee. The Orioles ruined the first post-season baseball game in Chicago since Game 6 of the 1959 World Series.

 

1988: After a little more than two seasons on the White Sox bench, Jim Fregosi was fired as White Sox manager. Hired by general manager Ken Harrelson after the firing of Tony LaRussa in 1986, Fregosi was 193-226 as Sox manager. The Sox were 77-85 in 1987 and 71-90 in 1988 before he was canned by general manager Larry Himes, who took over for Harrelson after the 1986 season. Himes would eventually hire Jeff Torborg as the next Sox manager.

 

2005: In arguably the greatest pitching performance in franchise history, Orlando Hernandez escaped a bases-loaded, no out jam in the sixth inning in helping the White Sox dump the Red Sox with a 5-3 series- and sweep-clinching win over the Red Sox in Game 3 of the American League Division Series at Fenway Park. With the “right” Sox leading 4-2, the Red Sox got a leadoff homer from Manny Ramirez and then loaded the bases in the sixth. Manager Ozzie Guillen then summoned Hernandez from the bullpen. “El Duque” then proceeded to get Jason Varitek and Tony Graffanion on popups before squelching the uprising with a strikeout of Johnny Damon. Hernandez pitched two more scoreless innings before giving way to Bobby Jenks who fired a perfect ninth for the save. The Sox took a 2-0 lead in the third on back-to-back doubles by Juan Uribe and Scott Podsednik and a single by Tadahito Iguchi. After the defending World Series champion Red Sox tied it off winner Freddy Garcia, the Sox took the lead for good in the sixth thanks to a two-run homer by Paul Konerko. The Sox added an insurance run in the ninth on a suicide squeeze bunt by Uribe. There was no MVP awarded for the division series round but if there Hernandez would have to get strong consideration just for this performance.

Edited October 7, 2007 by StatManDu

[WilliamTell]

2005......great times.

[daa84]

With the “right” Sox leading 4-2, Manny Ramirez led off the sixth with a homer and then loaded the bases.

damn manny is good....HR and loaded the bases in the same inning.....

Edited October 7, 2007 by daa84

[StatManDu]

damn manny is good....HR and loaded the bases in the same inning.....

Thanks for pointing that out in your own special way. I made the correction.

 

I do appreciate it because I have a file on all this and want it to be as accurate as possible. I try to do the same on WSI but they are content to let the mistakes just hang out there forever. But that's the beauty of the Internet ... anything goes.