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THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY/TAKE THAT CUBS (2002) WWW.WHITESOXALMANAC.COM 1997: The White Sox played their first regular-season against the Chicago Cubs, dropping an 8-3 decision before 36,213 at Comiskey Park. The Cubs scored six times in the first three innings in the game played in replica uniforms. Lyle Mouton registered the Sox first homer against the Cubs with a solo blast in the sixth inning off Kevin Foster. 1998: Frank Thomas cracked the top 100 of the all-time home run list in the White Sox 6-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox at Comiskey Park. Thomas’ fifth inning homer – the 268th of his career – moved into 99th place on the all-time list. Thomas launched his homer off Pedro Martinez. 1999: Greg Norton’s bases loaded walk in the 11th inning gave the White Sox a 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays before 10,903 at Comiskey Park. Norton’s walk came off Norm Charlton and scored Magglio Ordonez. Sean Lowe pitched a scoreless inning to improve to 3-0. 2000: The White Sox continued their road roll with a 3-1 victory over the New York Yankees in the Bronx. The win, the Sox ninth in a row on the road and 12th in their last 13 outings, enabled the club to open a 6.5-game lead in the American League Central. James Baldwin gave up one run in 7.1 innings to improve to 10-1. Baldwin’s 10-1 start was the best by a White Sox starter since Joel Horlen went 10-1 in 1967. After surrendering a solo homer to Scott Brosius in the third, Baldwin allowed just one more runner to reach second before getting relief help from Bobby Howry, who retired all five men he faced to log his third save. 2002: Carlos Lee drove in seven runs with a grand slam off Kerry Wood and a three-run shot off Carlos Zambrano in powering the White Sox to a 10-7 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Jun 15, 2007 -> 02:00 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I enjoyed this stretch of baseball as much as any I've ever seen. Agreed ... The absolute destruction in Yankee Stadium was especially sweet.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 15 For the rest of the day, visit www.whitesoxalmanac.com 1993: Wilson Alvarez fashioned the best game of his career in the White Sox 4-0 win over the Athletics at the Oakland Coliseum. Alvarez blanked Oakland on three hits and one walk whilefanning 11. Alvarez allowed just five baserunners and none of them got past second base. Ron Karkovice homered and doubled to drive in two of the Sox four runs. 1997: The White Sox blasted the Reds 14-6 in an interleague game at Cincinnati. Trailing 4-3 heading into the fifth, the Sox got a three-run homer from Harold Baines and a solo shot from Ray Durham in taking the lead for good. The Sox locked it up with five in the seventh. The outburst was highlighted by a three-run home run from Jorge Fabregas. Carlos Castillo got the win and singled in his only at bat. The hit was the first by a White Sox pitcher since Ken Brett singled as a pinch-hitter Aug. 20, 1976 off Baltimore's Wayne Garland at Comiskey Park. Castillo's hit was the first by a White Sox pitcher while in the game as a pitcher, in his own victory and in a road game since Sept. 29, 1972 when Tom Bradley singled off Rich Hand. 2000: The first-place White Sox obliterated the New York Yankees 12-3 at Yankee Stadium. The White Sox broke the game open with three in the fifth and then closed out the Bronx Bombers by scoring two in each of the seventh, eighth and ninth innings. Paul Konerko and Magglio Ordonez each homered while Konerko and Brook Fordyce ach drove in three runs. The victory was the Sox 1th in their last 12 outings and their eighth in a row on the road. The victory also enabled the White Sox to open up a 5.5 game lead in the American League Central. 2004: Timo Perez and Carlos Lee helped the White Sox pull out one of their most dramatic wins of the season in a 7-5 triumph in 10 innings at Florida. Perez hit a two-run homer off Marlin stopper Armandon Benitez in the ninth to force extra innings. In the 10th, Carlos Lee doubled to extend his hitting streak to a club record 28 games. Miguel Olivo scored the winning run after drawing a bases-loaded walk in the 10th. Kelly Dransfeldt drove in Lee with the Sox final run. 2005: The first-place and future World Series champion White Sox used a 10-run sixth inning in doubling over Arizona 12-6 before 24,499 at US Cellular Field. The Sox trailed 6-2 heading into the sixth but got three-run home runs from Paul Konerko and Juan Uribe and a solo shot from Frank Thomas en route to their biggest frame since an 11-run output on April 18, 2000 against Seattle. The three-home run inning was the 30th in team history. Jon Garland got the win to become the first pitcher to reach 11 victories in 2005. The win also moved Garland to 8-0 at home in 2005.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 14 For the whole day, see www.whitesoxalmanac.com 1978: Making a rare start, Ron Schueler was effective in the White Sox 4-1 win over the Texas Rangers before 22,489 at Comiskey Park. Schueler, in his second start of the year, gave up three hits and a run with one walk and seven strikeouts for the victory. Jim Willoughby relieved Schueler after Schueler's only mistake -- a one-out homer to John Lowenstein in the eighth -- andfinished up with 1.2 perfect innings for his seventh save. Chet Lemon and Alan Bannister each drove in two runs as the Sox won for the fourth straight game. 1984: Left fielder Ron Kittle posted three assists – all cutting down Bobby Grich -- from the outfield in a 9-3 loss at California. Kittle threw out Grich at second base in the second inning, at third base in the fourth inning and at home in the sixth. 1985: Tom Seaver downed the Angels 4-2 in Anaheim for his 295th career victory. Greg Walker's three-run home run in the third gave the Sox the lead for good. Seaver gave up two hits and no earned runs in seven innings in moving to 7-4. Bob James pitched two innings for his 15th save. 1989: Jerry Reuss tossed seven shutout innings in the White Sox 3-1 win over Cleveland before 8,996 at Comiskey Park. The Sox scored one in the second and two in the fourth and won despite the fact that each member of the infield committed an error. Reuss allowed only three hits and jacked his record to 3-0 since returning to the rotation from the bullpen. 1990: The White Sox got to Oakland ace Dave Stewart for three runs in the first two innings and held on for a 3-2 win before 30,076 at Comiskey Park. Ivan Calderon accounted for the Sox first run with a sacrifice fly in the first. In the next inning, Ozzie Guillen plated a run with a bases-loaded ground out and Lance Johnson drove home the other with a single. Eric King combined with four relievers to improve to 6-1. Bobby Thigpen pitched a scoreless ninth for his 21st save. The win in the first game of a crucial four game set, pulled the Sox to within two games of first-place Oakland in the American League West.

THIS DAY IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 14TH WWW.WHITESOXALMANAC.COM 1972: Carlos May and Wilbur Wood did most of the White Sox damage in a 2-0 win -- their sixth straight -- over the Yankees in New York. May hit a two-run homer and Wood went the distance and gave up three hits and two walks with four strikeouts for his 10th win. May's blast was just one of five hits the Sox would muster that day and came with one out in the eighth off Mel Stottlemyre with Dick Allen on first. 1973: Johnny Jeter had the game of his life in the White Sox 10-2 win over the Tigers in Detroit. Jeter ignited the romp with a home run off Mickey Lolich and later singled and scored. Jeter also doubled as the Sox pounded three Tiger hurlers for 13 hits. Dick Allen was 3-for-3 while Carlos May, Bill Melton and Rick Reichardt also homered in support of Stan Bahnsen, who went the distance to improve to 7-5. 1978: WHAT A COMEBACK! The White Sox overcame an 9-0 deficit after three innings by scoring six in the third and four in the fourth in nipping the Indians 10-9 before 12,000 at Comiskey Park. The Sox were able to survive the worst start of Wilbur Wood's career. Wood did notretire a batter and gave up four runs on three hits with a walk and a wild pitch before being pulled in favor of Pablo Torrealba, who did not fare much better. By the time Rich Hinton had gotten through the third, the Sox were in a nine-run hole. The Sox scored six in the third thanks to two Indian errors and took the lead with four in the fourth. The Sox went on top to stay when Jorge Orta's ground out scored Wayne Nordhagen. An out earlier, the Sox pulled even on Lamar Johnson's single. Hinton was the hero, tossing 6.1 innings and surrendering just one run on five hits for the victory.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 12 www.whitesoxalmanac.com 1975: Jim Kaat went the distance in a snappy 2 hour and 3 minutes in the White Sox 9-2 win over Boston before 5,944 at Comiskey Park. Kaat gave up 11 hits and one walk with three strikeouts in improving to 9-3. 1977: Aggressive baserunning by Chet Lemon helped the White Sox sink the Orioles 6-4 in Baltimore. Lemon led off the 11th with a walk, stole second, took third on an error and scored on a wild pitch. Lemon forced overtime with a two-run homer in the sixth, which tied the game at 4. Lerrin LaGrow got the win but it was Bart Johnson who was the bullpen’s savior. Johnson tossed 4.1 innings of scoreless relief with five strikeouts while the “Hitmen” climbed back into the game.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY JUNE 11 For the rest of the day, visit WWW.WHITESOXALMANAC.COM 1967: The White Sox stormed into first place by sweeping a doubleheader from New York before 62,582 at Yankee Stadium. After winning the first game 2-1 with Don Buford and Ken Berry going a combined 6-for-9, Jerry McNertney’s three-run bomb delivered the Sox a 3-1 win in the nightcap. 1968: Left fielder Jim Snyder hit a grand slam and drove in five and Pete Ward had three RBIs in the White Sox 9-5 win at Yankee Stadium. Mickey Mantle started a first base for New York and hit a homer – the last of his career against the White Sox – in the sixth inning off Joel Horlen. Wilbur Wood earned his sixth save with two perfect innings. 1969: Duane Josephson’s sacrifice fly capped a three-run eighth in the White Sox 4-3 “home-away-from-home” win over the Cleveland Indians before 15,715 at County Stadium in Milwaukee. Josephson’s sac fly gave the Sox the lead for good and followed Buddy Bradford’s game-tying single. 1972: Dick Allen accounted for two of the White Sox five home runs in a 6-4 win over Milwaukee in the first game of a doubleheader before 23,868 at Comiskey Park. Luis Alvarado, Mike Andrews and Ed Herrmann also went deep to help Stan Bahnsen earn his eighth win. Terry Forster helped out by fanning seven in three innings of shutout relief for his seventh save. In the second game, Pat Kelly secured the Sox a sweep when his “walkoff’ singled delivered the team a 5-4 victory after the Sox had been trailing 4-0. 1978: Francisco Barrios turned in eight strong innings as the White Sox got by the Rangers 2-1 in Arlington, Texas. Barrios gave up one run on eight hits in eight innings with one walk and five strikeouts. Lerrin LaGrow tossed a spotless ninth for his fifth save. 1980: Bound for the All-Star Game, Ed Farmer posted his 14th save with 3.2 innings of shutout work in a 7-4 win over Toronto before 17,537 at Comiskey Park. Lamar Johnson had three RBIs while Junior Moore had two and Jim Morrison added three hits in helping starter Ken Kravec pick up the victory. 1981: The White Sox held off the New York Yankees 3-2 before 33,777 at Comiskey Park in what would be the last game before the prolonged work stoppage. Steve Trout got the win as the Sox improved to 31-22. The next regular-season game at Comiskey Park wouldn't be until Aug. 10. 1985: Tim Lollar pitched into the seventh inning to pick up the win in the White Sox 7-1 thrashing of the Mariners at Seattle. Lollar, acquired with Ozzie Guillen and Luis Salazar from San Diego as part of the LaMarr Hoyt deal the previous December, allowed five hits in improving to 2-2. Rudy Law’s two-run triple highlighted a four-run second that sent the Sox to their fourth straight victory. 1988: Jerry Reuss went five innings and then watched relievers Steve Rosenberg, Jeff Bittiger, Rick Horton and Bobby Thigpen hold the lead in the Sox 5-3 win over Milwaukee before 26,141 at Comiskey Park. Reuss gave up one earned run in improving to 5-2 while Thigpen logged his 11th save. Daryl Boston went 2-for-4 with a triple and a homer and he scored the go-ahead run in the fourth on Steve Lyons’ single. 1990: The battery of Melido Perez and Carlton Fisk powered the White Sox to a 3-1 win at Seattle. Catcher Fisk’s two-run homer made sure that pitcher Perez’s seven shutout innings resulted in a victory. The win was the fourth straight for the surprising and surging Sox and pulled them to within two games of Oakland in the American League West.1993: 1993: The White Sox scored one run in each of the first five innings in beating the Royals 6-1 in Kansas City. Included in the single tallies were home runs by Frank Thomas and Robin Ventura. Jack McDowell fired seven solid innings for his ninth win. 1999: The White Sox notched their inaugural regular-season win over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field with a rain-shortened 5-3 victory. Greg Norton’s two-run homer in the fifth staked the White Sox to an insurmountable 5-1 lead. Jim Parque went the distance for his second straight win. The game was halted by rain after the top of the sixth and delayed for 2 hours and 33 minutes before it was called. 2000: The White Sox hit five solo home runs but wound up losing to the Cubs 6-5 before 43,158 at Comiskey Park. Jose Valentin logged the sixth multi-homer game of his career which accounted for the 100th and 101st round-trippers of his career. The Cubs scratched across a run in the ninth on a fielder’s choice. The series drew 131,104 fans, the second-longest turnout for a three-game set at New Comiskey Park, falling 172 clicks of the turnstile short of the record set in 1999.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 10 1914: Eleven days after no-hitting the Cleveland Indians, Joe Benz one-hit the Washington Senators at Comiskey Park. Benz, a 28-year-old right-hander from New Alsace, Ind., outdueled the great Walter Johnson in the 2-0 victory –- the Sox fourth straight. 1930: The White Sox pinned the first loss of the season on the great Lefty Grove in a 7-6 win in 11 innings over the Philadelphia A’s at Comiskey Park. Grove began the season with seven consecutive victories. The Sox led 4-2 after five but the A’s tied it with two in the sixth. The teams swapped deuces in the 10th before the Sox pushed one across in the 11th to make a winner out of lefty reliever Hal McKain. 1938: Starting pitcher Monty Stratton launched a grand slam in the second inning of the White Sox 15-2 thumping of the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Stratton, whose promising career was later derailed by a hunting accident, earned his fourth win of the season. Stratton gave up a homer to Red Sox rookie pitcher Bill Lefebvre in Lefebvre’s first big league at bat. Lefebvre became the first player to homer in his only at bat in a season. 1951: 52,054 crammed Comiskey Park to watch the White Sox and Yankees split a doubleheader. At the time, it was the third-largest crowd at Comiskey Park. Two days earlier, 53,940 watched the Sox and the Yankees go at it. The Yankees won the first game 2-1 while the Sox took the nightcap 11-7. Eddie Robinson broke a 7-7 game in the second game with an RBI single in the seventh inning. Randy Gumpert got the win for the White Sox. 1952: Sam Mele tied an American League record by driving in six runs in an inning in the White Sox 15-4 win at Philadelphia. Mele’s outburst came courtesy of a three-run homer and a three-run triple in the White Sox 12-run fourth inning. The teams combined to score 14 runs in the inning for the highest-scoring fourth inning in American League history. … Off the field, Charlie Comiskey Jr. rejoins the franchise after an absence of five months. Comiskey was re-elected to the board as vice-president. 1958: The White Sox halted a four-game losing streak with a 5-4 win at Washington in the first game of a doubleheader. A four-run seventh, capped by a two-run double from Al Smith, put the Sox ahead to stay. 1959: The White Sox gave Early Wynn two in the first and the big right-hander parlayed into his eighth win in a 4-1 win at Washington. Al Smith’s two-run triple was all the future American League Cy Young winner would need for his eighth victory. 1960: Gene Freese and Jim Landis each drove in three as the White Sox rolled over the Red Sox 13-3 at Boston. Freese, who was 4-for-4, and Landis each brought home a run in a six-run fourth that put the Sox in control. Jim Kemmerer benefited from the outburst, which included 18 hits. The veteran right-hander, who helped his own cause with two sacrifices and an RBI, went the distance for his third win. 1961: Due to failing health and other considerations, Bill Veeck sold his White Sox holdings to former business associate Arthur Allyn Jr. Veeck would later head up a group that purchased the White Sox in December of 1975. 1964: Eddie Fisher induced a game-ending double play ball to preserve the first-place White Sox 2-1 win before 22,080 at Comiskey Park. Fisher entered in relief of winner Gary Peters with one out in the ninth and runners on first third. The knuckleballer got Dick Brown, the only batter he faced, to bounce into a Pete Ward-to-Al Weis-to-Tommy McCraw double play for the Sox fourth straight win, Peters’ seventh victory and Fisher’s first save. 1965: Floyd Robinson’s three-run triple in the seventh delivered the White Sox a 4-2 win at Fenway Park. Gary Peters went six innings for his fifth win while future Hall of Famer Hoyt Wilhelm tossed three shutout innings for his fourth save. 1967: The White Sox pulled to within a half game of first place with a 9-0 win over the Yankees in New York. Gary Peters fired a four-hit shutout and hit his second roundtripper of the season as part of his seventh victory of the season. Don Buford also homered, Pete Ward had doubles and Ed Stroud drove in three as part of an 18-hit attack. 1968: The White Sox scored three in the top of the ninth to pull out a 5-2 victory at New York. Luis Aparicio broke a 2-2 tie with an RBI double and pinch-hitter Bill Voss added a two-run single to make a winner out of reliever Wilbur Wood, who logged four innings. 1969: The White Sox scored three in the sixth and three in the seventh to overtake the Indians for a 9-5 win before 6,055 at Comiskey Park. Carlos May gave the Sox the lead for good with a two-run double in the sixth as part of his four-RBI day.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 9 www.whitesoxalamanac.com 1903: The White Sox were incorporated under Illinois law with $5,000 capital. 1905: Doc White set a White Sox record with 13 strikeouts in a 3-2 win in 14 innings at Philadelphia. 1917: The future World Series champion White Sox moved into first place with a 5-4 win over the Senators in Washington. The White Sox will exchange the top spot with the Red Sox until Aug. 18 before taking over first for good. 1933: Luke Appling’s walkoff home run powered the White Sox to a 10-9 win over the Tigers at Comiskey Park. The Sox forced extra innings with five in the bottom of the ninth. Future Hall of Famer Ted Lyons got the win in relief. 1962: Al Zanni turned in 4.1 innings of shutout relief and was rewarded with the win in an 8-5 win at Minnesota. The Sox scored three in the sixth to take the lead for good thanks to a Floyd Robinson triple and an Al Smith sac fly. Zanni, in relief of Early Wynn, gave up one hit and fanned four for his fourth win. 1963: Ron Hansen’s two-out double in the ninth broke a 2-2 tie and lifted the White Sox to a 4-3 win at Kansas City. The victory pushed the Sox into first place by a half game. Juan Pizarro worked two scoreless innings in relief for the victory. In the ninth, Pizarro struck out Ken Harrelson, making his big league debut, for the second out. 1964: The first-place White Sox improved to 30-14 with a 9-5 win over Baltimore before 29,465 at Comiskey Park. Floyd Robinson drove in three while Tommy McCraw and winning pitcher Juan Pizarro, who moved to 7-2, each drove in two runs. 1970: Bill Melton clubbed two home runs and Tommy McCraw drove in two in the White Sox 4-2 win at Boston. Jerry Janeski went the distance for his fifth win. His only mistake was a two-run homer to Carl Yastrzemski in the sixth. 1971: The White Sox lost to the Indians 3-1 in Cleveland. In his Major League debut, Ed Farmer earned the save for the Indians. Farmer made his debut against the White Sox exactly eight years to the day that future fellow White Sox broadcaster Ken Harrelson did the same. In another strange twist of coincidence, Harrelson was the Indians’ starting left fielder but was not in the game when Farmer closed it out. 1972: Bill Melton’s three-run homer in the sixth was the all the White Sox needed in a 3-1 win over Milwaukee before 11,871 at Comiskey Park. Wilbur Wood went the distance and gave up six hits and three walks with one strikeout in upping his record to 9-4. 1973: A two-run triple in the first inning by Bill Melton sent the White Sox to a 6-3 win at Cleveland. Luis Alvarado also drove in two runs as the White Sox bested future Hall of Famer and 300-game winner Gaylord Perry. 1974: Ron Santo, starting at second base, hit two homers – including an inside-the-park home run -- in the White Sox 10-6 loss to the Boston Red Sox before 16,678 at Comiskey Park. The multi-homer game, the 26th and last of his career, came a day after Santo hit a grand slam. The former Cub would hit just one more homer for the Sox the rest of the season. 1975: Hank Aaron made his Comiskey Park debut as the Brewers’ designated hitter in the White Sox 1-0 loss. 4,949 on the Southside witnessed Aaron’s 1-for-3 performance. Aaron’s hit was an eighth-inning single off Rich Gossage. 1976: Pat Kelly’s two-run triple in the seventh put the White Sox over the top in a 4-2 win over the Brewers in Milwaukee. Kelly’s triple scored Jack Brohamer and Bucky Dent and made a winner out of Rich Gossage, who notched his fifth victory as a starter. Clay Carroll worked two scoreless innings for his sixth save. 1977: Wayne Nordhagen’s two-out single in the 11th got the White Sox past the Rangers 4-3 in Texas. Alan Bannister went 5-for-6 while Larry Anderson earned his only win with the Sox with 2.2 shutout innings of relief. 1978: The White Sox rewarded Ron Schueler with a victory in a 4-3 win – their fifth in a row -- at Texas. Schueler took over for starter Pablo Torrealaba in the first and fashioned six strong innings, allowing just one run on four hits.Lerrin LaGrow wasn’t too shabby either. He took over for Schueler and turned in three shutout innings for the save. Bill Nahordny’s single in the sixth gave the Sox the lead good and made sure all that awesome relief pitching would not go to waste. 1979: The White Sox scored five times in the final two innings in surging past the Brewers 6-2 in Milwaukee. A two-run shot by Bill Nahorodny in the eighth and a two-run shot by Chet Lemon in the ninth led the rampage. Bruce Howard, making his third big league start, gave up one in seven innings for his first big league victory. 1981: Richard Dotson continued his hot first half by blanking the Toronto Blue Jays 3-0 before 8,534 at Comiskey Park. Wayne Nordhagen’s two-run, inside-the-park homer highlighted the White Sox offense. The whitewashing was Dotson’s fourth and last of the season. The 22-year old right-hander would end up tying for the American League lead with those four shutouts. Nordhagen’s inside the park homer was the first by a Sox player at Comiskey Park since Ron Santo hit one on the very same date in 1974. 1984: Greg Luzinski hit a grand slam for the second consecutive day and the White Sox got to .500 by topping Minnesota 6-1 before 34,239 at Comiskey Park. Luzinski became only the ninth player (10th time) in modern history to hit grand slams in consecutive games. Floyd Bannister went the distance for the win as the Sox pulled to within a game of first place in the American League West. 1985: Tom Seaver picked up his 294th victory in a 5-1 win at Minnesota. Seaver gave up one run on five hits with one walk and three strikeouts in 7.2 innings for his sixth win of 1985. Harold Baines drove in two runs while Daryl Boston and Luis Salazar homered as the Sox won for the second straight day in the Metrodome. 1986: In a battle of one 300-game winner and a future 300-game winner, California’s Don Sutton picked up his 299th career win by outdueling the White Sox and 306-game winner Tom Seaver 3-0 before 19,611 at Comiskey Park. Sutton’s gem ended the White Sox four-game winning streak. 1989: Harold Baines homered and Carlton Fisk and Dan Pasqua notched RBIs as part of a three-run first in the White Sox 8-3 win at Minnesota. Jerry Reuss got the win in improving to 5-2. 1990: The surprising White Sox improved to 33-19 with a 4-2 win at Minnesota thanks to 2.2 innings of shutout relief by Barry Jones and Bobby Thigpen, who earned his mind-boggling 19th save. Carlton Fisk’s homer, his fourth, highlighted an 11-hit attack. 1991: Jack McDowell improvedto 7-3 with a complete game effort in the White Sox 8-2 win at Kansas City. The lanky right-hander gave up just four hits while walking two and striking out three for his second consecutive complete game. Matt Merullo, McDowell’s batterymate, went 3-for-4 with two RBIs. 1992: Frank Thomas drove in the tying and winning runs in the White Sox 4-2 win over the California Angels before 29,906 at Comiskey Park. Thomas, who was 3-for-4 with a homer and three RBI, plated Tim Raines with the tying run in the third and then put the Sox ahead to stay with a solo homer in the fifth. Thomas’ triple plated an insurance run in the seventh. Greg Hibbard pitched 7.2 shutout innings for the win while Scot Radinsky got the final out, a strikeout, for his second save. 1996: The White Sox moved into a first place tie with Cleveland by ripping the Baltimore Orioles 12-9 at Camden Yards. Frank Thomas’ seventh inning homer was the 200th of his career. The blast enabled Thomas to join Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire as the only active players to reach the 200-homer mark within six years of his Major League debut. Harold Baines and Paco Martin each had three hits while Danny Tartabull homered as part of the Sox 18-hit attack. 2000: The White Sox opened a three-game series with the Cubs with a 6-5 win in 14 innings before 44,140 at Comiskey Park. Ray Durham’s singled off Daniel Garibay scored Herbert Perry with the winning run to end the 4 hour and 42 minute affair. Sammy Sosa’s two-run homer in the ninth forced extra innings but Bill Simas and Jesus Pena combined to hold the Cubs hitless over the final five innings with Pena earning his first career victory. 2002: The White Sox received six RBIs from Magglio Ordonez and seven solid innings from Mark Buehrle in downing the Expos 13-2 in an interleague tilt before 21,870 at Comiskey Park. 2006: Jermaine Dye drove in the tying and go-ahead runs with a single in the eighth to deliver the White Sox a 5-4 win over Cleveland before 33,909 at US Cellular Field. SOX STUMPER Who was the White Sox first round pick in 1990 (answer tomorrow)? YESTERDAY'S ANSWER Joe Borchard was the White Sox first round pick in 2000. Editor's Note: Information for these entries is gleaned from the author's files, retrosheet.org, various Internet sources, press reports of the day, White Sox media guides and the many White Sox books written by the great Rich Lindberg.

THIS DATE IN SOX HISTORY: JUNE 8/IT'S ALL ABOUT MILWAUKEE For the rest of the day see, WWW.WHITESOXALMANAC.COM 1969: The White Sox acquired pitcher Gary Bell from the Seattle Pilots for reliever Bob Locker. This was the first and only trade the White Sox would make with the Pilots, who moved from Seattle to Milwaukee right before the 1970 season. 1970: The White Sox played their first game in Milwaukee against the Brewers and lost 5-2. The Sox were no strangers to Milwaukee, though. The Sox played a handful of “home games” in Milwaukee in 1968 and 1969. 1979: Outfielder Wayne Nordhagen pitched a scoreless inning in the White Sox 6-0 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers before 13,713 at Comiskey Park. Nordhagen induced Cecil Cooper to ground into a double play and retired Sal Bando in his second big league pitching appearance in a week.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 7TH For the rest of the day see www.whiteosoxalmanac.com 1972: Rookie Rich Gossage notched the first of his 310 career saves in the White Sox 2-1 triumph of the Red Sox before 11,857 at Comiskey Park. Gossage, a rookie appearing his 11th big league game, earned the save with three shutout innings. 1984: Behind Harold Baines’ six RBIs, the White Sox overcame an early 7-0 deficit in outlasting California 11-10 before 20,721 at Comiskey Park. On the seventh anniversary of his drafting by the Sox, Baines hit a three-run homer in the third and then launched another three-run homer in the fifth, which gave the Sox the lead for good. Tom Paciorek and Ron Kittle also homered as part of the 11-hit attack. Bert Roberge got the win with 4.1 innings of shutout relief.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 6TH For more on this date, see www.whitesoxalmanac.com 1966: Lee Elia clubbed the first home run of his career in the White Sox 5-1 win – their fifth straight – at California. Elia’s blast came in the second, an inning after the Sox had taken the lead for good on Floyd Robinson’s RBI single. Dennis Higgins, the cousin of Joe Crede, fired four perfect innings for his second save in preserving Juan Pizarro’s fifth win. 1971: Jay Johnstone hit two home runs – including a three-run blast in a five-run first – as the White Sox topped the Tigers 8-2 before 25,356 at Comiskey Park. Bill Melton also homered and Tom Bradley pitched into the ninth for his sixth win. 1980: Diminutive Harry Chappas’ double in the ninth scored Bobby Molinaro with the winning run as the White Sox beat the Indians 8-7 before 20,231 at Comiskey Park. Marv Foley’s two-run, pinch-homer in the eighth tied the game, setting the stage for the 5-foot-3 Chappas’ heroics. Ed Farmer got the win in relief to improve to 5-0. 1984: Tom Seaver recorded his 58th career shutout, a four-hit masterpiece in a 4-0 win over the Angels before 20,995 at Comiskey Park. Seaver delivered first-pitch strikes to 20 of 30 batters and he retired seven hitters on the first pitch. Seaver fanned eight and walked none and was backed by a home run from batterymate and future fellow Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 5TH See www.whitesoxalmanac.com for the rest of the day 1919: Future Hall of Famer Eddie Collins laced the second in-the-park grand slam in White Sox history at Yankee Stadium. Collins victimized Yankee hurler Ernie Shore in the first-place White Sox 5-1 win. 1974: The White Sox rewarded Terry Forster with a victory in a 7-6 win in 15 innings over the New York Yankees before 7,566 at Comiskey Park. Forster fashioned seven innings of relief and gave up one run with seven strikeouts and no walks. He got the win when the White Sox pushed a run across in the 15th when Dick Allen singled, took second on a Bill Melton sacrifice and scored on Jorge Orta's double. The Yankees led 5-0 after 2 1-2 innings but the Sox scored six in the third on a two-run triple by Allen and a two-run single by Carlos May and RBIs by Bucky Dent and Ken Henderson. The Yankees tied it with two out in the ninth on a Bobby Murcer single. Like Forster, Jim Kaat was tough in relief. The left-hander tossed 5.1 innings and gave up one run. This was the longest Sox-Yankees game by innings since the Sox 2-0 win in 15 at Yankee Stadium on June 4, 1965.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 4 www.whitesoxalmanac.com 1972: In one of the great days in club history, the White Sox treated a Bat Day crowd of 51,904 at Comiskey Park to a doubleheader sweep of the New York Yankees. MVP-to-be Dick Allen capped the party by launching a three-run pinch-hit home run with one out in the bottom of the ninth off Sparky Lyle to power the Sox to a 5-4 win in Game 2. The blast made a winner out of Cy Acosta, who pitched a scoreless top of the ninth in his big league debut. In the opener, the Sox rode a four-run third -- thanks to two-RBIs each by Mike Andrews and Carlos May -- to a 6-1 win. Tom Bradley gave up one run on six hits with one walk and eight strikeouts in a complete game effort to improve to 6-2. 1988: In one of the most dramatic games in recent memory, the White Sox scored six in the ninth with the last four coming on Gary Redus’ grand slam to beat the Texas Rangers 10-8 before 17,101 at Comiskey Park. Ivan Calderon led off the ninth with a home run. After singles by Greg Walker and Dave Gallagher and a walk to Donnie Hill loaded the bases, Mike Woodard singled with one out to pull the Sox to within 8-6. Redus then came up and ended the game with his second grand slam in a week.

A play like that -- the DP that ended the frame -- just confirms to me that DJ doesn't really pay close attention to the game. Watching it live, that play didn't seen right with that cat leaving second. I called it immediatley DJ was totally flummoxed by it all.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 3 For the entire day, see www.whitesoxalamanac.com 1985: The White Sox selected Mississippi State pitcher Bobby Thigpen in the fourth round of the amateur draft. The right-hander rocketed through the Sox system and made his big league debut Aug. 6, 1986. Midway through the 1987 season, Thigpen was in the bigs to stay and by 1988 he was the Sox closer. The highlight of Thipgen’s career was his big league record 57 saves in 1990. He pitched for the Soxuntil being dealt to Philadelphia midway through the 1993 season. He is still the franchise’s all-time leader with 201 saves. 1989: Ozzie Guillen and Carlton Fisk teamed up to help the White Sox salvage a split of a doubleheader with the Minnesota Twins before 14,365 at Comiskey Park. After losing the first game 2-1 for their sixth straight setback, the Sox took the nightcap 2-1 when Guillen tripled in the eighth and scored when Fisk’s sacrifice fly broke a 1-1 tie. Bobby Thgpen pitched the ninth for his eighth save. He preserved the win for Shawn Hillegas, who gave up one walk in 1.2 shutout innings.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 2/Gnats, Coluccio and Kravec! For the rest of the day, visit WWW.WHITESOXALMANAC.COM 1959: The White Sox game with the Orioles is delayed by 30 minutes when gnats swarm Comiskey Park. Bugspray did not work but the postgame fireworks show accompanied by a bug bomb did and the game was able to resume. Unfortunately, the Sox lost 3-2. 1963: The White Sox handed Wilbur Wood the first loss of his career in a 10-0 win over the Boston Red Sox in the second game of a doubleheader before 30,255 at Comiskey Park. Wood, making his first start of the season and the third of his career, gave up one earned run in five innings but was outdueled by Juan Pizarro, who gave up four hits and struck out six for his fourth win. 1969: Carlos May’s eighth-inning grand slam off Sparky Lyle gave the White Sox the lead for good in a 6-4 win at Boston. May’s slam came with Tommy McCraw, Walt Williams and Luis Aparicio on base and made a winner out of reliever Cisco Carlos and was the first of three he would hit in his career with the Sox. 1975: Leadoff hitter Bobby Coluccio doubled and tripled and scored twice in the White Sox 9-2 win over the Red Sox at Fenway Park. The Sox scored three in the fourth, one in the seventh on a Coluccio double and a Bucky Dent single and five in the ninth. Stan Bahnsen went the distance for his fourth win. 1977: The Southside Hit Men White Sox did all of their damage in the first three innings in holding off Baltimore 7-4 before 8,331 at Comiskey Park. Jim Essian drove in three runs in support of starter Francisco Barrios, who won his fifth game. Dave Hamilton pitched the final 1.2 innings for this third save. 1979: Ken Kravec blanked the defending World Series champion New York Yankees in the a 7-0 win in the Bronx. Kravec limited a lineup that included Mickey Rivers, Willie Randolph, Thurman Munson and Reggie Jackson to three hits while facing just two over the minimum. Kravec, a lefty, walked two and struck out three in moving to 6-3. He gave up a hit in the first, sixth and seventh innings and retired the last nine batters he faced. Kravec’s shutout was preserved in the sixth when Chris Chambliss was thrown out home to end the frame. A throw from center fielder Chet Lemon to Milt May got Chambliss at the plate.

From the semi-useless info dept ... Jerry Owens was the first player the White Sox ever acquired from the Washingtion Nationals. ... On March 13, 2005, the Sox obtained Owens from the 'Nasty Nats' for fellow outfielder Alex Escobar. For the record, the last player the Sox acquired from the Montreal Expos, who relocated to Washington, was Carl Everett. On July 18, 2004, the Sox traded pitchers Gary Majewski and Jon Rauch to Montreal for Everett. So now you know!

I am banned from WSI for various reasons but I noticed there were some answers to questions on almanac items I could provide. So here goes ... BDSR asks how the Sox gave up their run in Joe Benz's no-hitter of May 31, 1914 ... Three fourth-inning White Sox errors by Weaver at short, Altrock third and Berger at second prevented Benz' shutout. Railsplitter brought up a fracas between the Sox and an umpire in a Memorial Day doubleheader in 1932. This is what happened on May 30, 1932: Things turned ugly after the White Sox were swept at Cleveland 12-6 and 12-11. After the game, the Sox accused umpire George Moriarty of deliberately botching calls. As a result, Moriarty fought with four Sox players beneath the stands. Moriarty broke his fist after flooring pitcher Milt Gaston. He is quickly pummeled by manager Lew Fonseco and catchers Charlie Berry and Frank Grube and wound up in the hospital. Fonseca and his players were fined while Gaston was suspended for 10 days and fined $500 by American League President Will Harridge. Moriarty was rebuked for his role in the fracas.

THIS DATE IN SOX HISTORY: JUNE 1ST/WELCOME ROBIN! For the rest of the day visit www.whitesoxalmanac.com 1988: The White Sox and general manager Larry Himes made one of the great picks in franchise history when they drafted Robin Ventura out of Oklahoma State in the first round of the amateur draft. Ventura, a third baseman, was the 10th overall pick of the draft and was in the bigs by the end of the 1989 season. He became a regular in 1990 and quickly became one of the most popular players in team history.

THIS DATE IN SOX HISTORY MAY 31ST/22 RUNS! For the rest of the day see ... WWW.WHITESOXALMANAC.COM 1970: The White Sox had their best offensive game in 15 years and their second best overall in hammering the Boston Red Sox 22-13 at Fenway Park. The 22 runs were the most by a Sox team since they scored a club record 29 in a win at Kansas City April 23, 1955. The 35 runs by both teams tied the club mark set on Sept. 9, 1921 and April 23, 1955. The Sox banged out 24 hits but their only home run came from Bill Melton, who hit a solo shot in the sixth. Melton finished with four RBIs. Leadoff man Walt Williams went 5-for-7 with five runs, a double and two RBIs while Luis Aparicio was 5-for-5 with three runs, a triple and three RBIs. Duane Josephson was 3-for-6 with two doubles and three RBIs and Ossie Blanco, who started at first base and batted third, was 2-for-5 with three RBIs. The Sox scored six in the first off Boston starter Gary Peters, who lasted just two-thirds of an inning. The Sox scored one in the third, three in the fourth, one in the fifth, seven in the sixth and four in the eighth

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: A WALKOFF WILD PITCH! See www.whitesoxalmanac.com for the rest of the day 1990: Lance Johnson sprinted home with the decisive run in the ninth inning in the White Sox 5-4 win over the Yankees before 15,353 at Comiskey Park. Johnson reached on a fielder’s choice with one out and took third on Ivan Calderon’s single. After a steal and an intentional walk, Yankee reliever Lance McCullers uncorked the wild pitch and Johnson scored to hand the Sox their fourth straight victory.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: MAY 28/MOTOWN SLUGFEST! For the rest of the day, see ... WWW.WHITESOXALAMANAC.COM 1995: The White Sox and Tigers treated 10,813 at Tiger Stadium to a good old fashioned slugfest. The Sox and Tigers combined to break or equal five Major League records as the Southsiders rallied from a six-run deficit to post a 14-12 victory. The Sox and Tigers set records for combined homers (12) and solo homers (10) and tied marks for most players with two or more homers (four) and most players on one team with two or more homers (four). The clubs also tied an American League record by logging 21 extra-base hits. Ray Durham, Ron Karkovice and Craig Grebeck hit consecutive home runs marking just the fourth time in club history that feat has been accomplished. Durham’s dong was the first of his career.

MAY 27TH 1933: The White Sox and Yankees combined to score an American League record 15 runs in the eighth inning in New York’s 15-11 win in the Bronx. The Sox scored three in the top of the frame to take an 11-3 but the Yankees responded, thanks to a Bill Dickey grand slam, with 12 in their half. 1938: Detroit Tigers’ Hall of Famer-to-be Hank Greenberg landed the second home run in the center field bleachers at Comiskey Park in the White Sox 5-2 loss. Greenberg, who later became a White Sox executive during Bill Veeck’s first ownership with the club, victimized Frank Gabler in the third inning before 8,000 on the Southside. About a month earlier, Greenberg landed a homer on the Comiskey Park roof. 1966: The White Sox traded first baseman-outfielder Danny Cater to the Kansas City Athletics for utility infielder Wayne Causey. 1979: The White Sox were swept in a doubleheader by the California Angels at Comiskey Park but the second game got a little interesting when Wayne Nordhagen took the mound. Nordhagen, an outfielder by trade, fanned Carney Lansford, the first batter he faced, in becoming the first White Sox position player to take the mound since Ed Carnett did it in 1944. Nordhagen gave up two runs in two innings with two strikeouts (Merv Rettemund was the other K victim) as the Sox lost the nightcap 9-1 after dropping the opener 4-2. Nordhagen made a second pitching appearance for the White Sox with a scoreless inning a week later vs. the Milwaukee Brewers.

VOILA! It was on the complete entry on my aol blog but here it is ... A FOUR-HOMER FRAME 1996: The White Sox exploded for four homers in the eighth inning in blasting the Milwaukee Brewers 12-1 before 21,151 at Comiskey Park to complete a sweep and run their winning streak to eight. In the eighth, Frank Thomas, Harold Baines and Robin Ventura hit consecutive homers, marking the fourth time in club history that has happened. One batter later, Kreuter homered to set the Sox record. QUOTE(StatManDu @ May 26, 2007 -> 10:48 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sorry this is later than usual ... I got in late from the park last night ... If anyone ever goes to a game check out the black and white board in left. These entries run in some form during the game! MAY 26TH For the complete entry see www.whitesoxalmanac.com WHITESOXALMANAC.COM GAME OF THE DAY BRETT FLIRTS WITH A NO-NO 1976: Left-hander Ken Brett, acquired just eight days earlier from the Yankees, came within one out of a no-hitter but settled for a 1-0 victory in 11 innings at California. The no-hitter ended in controversy when third baseman Jorge Orta didn’t make a play on Jerry Remy’s slow roller in hopes that it would roll foul. The ball did not and Remy was rewarded with the Angels’ first hit by the official scorer. The Sox made Brett, who retired the first 23 batters he faced, a winner when Bucky Dent brought home Jack Brohamer with a two-out single in the 11th. Clay Carroll pitched a scoreless 11th for the save. SOX BEAT THE STALL 1907: Ed Walsh held New York Yankees hitless for five innings in the White Sox 8-1 win in a six-inning rain-shortened game in Chicago. With a steady drizzle falling, New York began to stall by loading the bases after a pitching change. The Sox countered by trying to hurry the game along when Billy Sullivan waltzed home from third and was tagged out. The umpire then threatened a forfeiture if the shenanigans continued. The Sox scored two in the sixth before rain halted the game giving the good guys the victory.