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Four notations today: June 28, 1941 - White Sox infielder Don Kolloway became the only White Sox player to steal second, third and home in the same inning. Kolloway pulled this off in Cleveland as part of a 6-4 Sox win. His base-stealing feat took place in the ninth inning. He also homered twice — his first two career Major League home runs — and is the only Major Leaguer in history to have two homers and four steals in a game. He also scored four times in the afternoon contest. June 28, 1973 - The ill fortunes of the team really came into focus, as by the time the summer ended, a team that was in first place for two months, wound up placing 38 names on the injured list. Among the key injuries were Ken Henderson tearing up his knee sliding into home plate, Bill Melton suffering a groin injury, Carlos May had a bad hamstring, Brian Downing wrenched his knee on his first Major League play and was lost until August diving to catch a foul pop up and Pat Kelly having a bad back. But the most damming injury occurred in Anaheim on the day listed above with the Sox a game out of first place. Dick Allen suffered a broken leg when Mike Epstein crashed into him on a play at first. Allen was stretching to grab a wild throw from third baseman Bill Melton in the sixth inning of a game the Sox would win 2-0. Here’s where it really got strange.....the injury took place just a little over 10 years after Sox first baseman Joe Cunningham suffered a broken collarbone against the same team on the same type of play (a wild throw) with the Sox in first place! June 28, 1993 - In the first of what would become a series of major public relations disasters, the White Sox released Carlton Fisk on the road in Cleveland. Fisk accompanied the team to Ohio only to be told of his release before the game. No question, Fisk was finished as a player, but the fans and media were outraged at the way the Sox handled the situation. In fact, the Sox sent faxes to the media announcing the move, not even having the courtesy to hold a press conference. Fisk, the future Hall of Famer, had to say his goodbyes to his former teammates from the stands at Municipal Stadium during that evening’s game before returning to Chicago. June 28, 2003 - In front of the biggest regular season crowd (46,027) ever to see a game at new Comiskey Park (and thus the biggest regular season crowd in Chicago in the 21st Century), the White Sox exacted some revenge. The South Siders had dropped two of three games a couple of weeks earlier at Wrigley Field, and turned it around for a 12-9 win to open the second Crosstown Classic series at U.S. Cellular Field. The game was marked by the fifth-biggest comeback in White Sox history, having fallen behind, 8-0, before mounting a comeback. The Cubs mauled starter Dan Wright for eight runs (seven earned), bouncing the righthander from the game with two outs in the third. From there, however, the White Sox bullpen locked the Cubs down while the offense went to work on Cubs hurler Kerry Wood. A two-run homer by Paul Konerko with two outs in the fifth had halved the lead to 8-4 — and it got even worse for the Cubs in the sixth. With Wood bumped from the game, Ray Durham had a run-scoring single and Frank Thomas a sac fly, with Magglio Ordonez tying the game at 8-8 with a two-run single. The capper? Konerko drove home Ordonez with a second two-run homer, putting the White Sox up for good, 10-8. Konerko’s performance was an all-time best in Crosstown play, getting on base five times (two homers, double, single, hit-by-pitch) and never being retired.

Breaks everything down: Doubling the 2026 White Sox's numbers at the halfway poin...At the mathematical halfway point, the 2026 White Sox are on pace to finish 86-76. An entire half of work remains, but as long as they sit in a postseason spot, they’re free to play the “nobody believ

Notation in the Sun-Times today that Pereira still hasn't begun baseball activities yet.

12th time the Sox trailed in the 7th inning or later and won the game.

I go back to a comment Mike Ditka once said, "If you can score 40 on us, go ahead. It's our fault because we let you do it."

Five factoids today: June 27, 1910 – The White Sox lost the final game played at their original ballpark, South Side Park III (39th Street Grounds). Cleveland knocked them off, 7-2, in front of just 4,300 fans. Fred Olmstead started the last game for the Sox but only lasted one inning giving up four runs. In fact the Sox didn’t score at all until the last inning in the original park getting two home in the ninth. Just four days later, the White Sox returned home and unveiled “The Baseball Palace of the World,” Comiskey Park. They lost that game as well, 2-0, to the St. Louis Browns, in front of 24,900 fans. June 27, 1922 - Catcher and future Hall of Famer, Ray “Cracker” Schalk became the first White Sox player to hit for the cycle when he did it against the Tigers in Detroit at Navin Field. The Sox would win 9-5 with Ray going 4 for 4 with two runs and two RBI’s. The hits were a home run in the third, triple in the fourth, single in the seventh and double in the ninth inning in that order. June 27, 1958 - He came so close to perfection. Sox left hander Billy Pierce fired four one-hitters in his brilliant career, but he never came closer than on this night to baseball immortality. With two out in the ninth inning, Pierce lost a perfect game as the Senators Ed Fitz Gerald, a pinch hitter, doubled down the first base line on the first pitch thrown. The hit was fair by a foot off a low outside breaking ball just past Ray Boone. The crowd at Comiskey Park stared in disbelief. The Sox won 3-0 but Pierce never came closer to pitching the ultimate masterpiece. On the night the Senators only hit six balls out of the infield. Pierce struck out nine and only went to a three-ball count on two hitters. The game took 1:46 to play and was Billy’s third straight shutout. He was looking to become the first left-handed pitcher to throw a perfect game in the modern era. Another historical oddity… Fitz Gerald’s grandfather was an important businessman in Milwaukee, including the shipping industry. Years later a ship would be named after him. The name of the ship? The Edmund Fitz Gerald. (Cue the song from Gordon Lightfoot!) June 27, 1967 - It was one of the most bizarre individual plays in White Sox history. The Sox were at Baltimore and in the last of the fourth inning of a scoreless game the O’s Frank Robinson slid hard into second baseman Al Weis trying to break up a potential double play on a ball hit by Brooks Robinson. Robinson’s head slammed into Weis’s knee briefly knocking him out. The next day he woke up with double vision and missed a month. Weis meanwhile had his knee torn up and his season ended because of the contact. While both players were lying on the ground Sox right fielder Ken Berry noticed that time had never been called and Frank wasn’t on the base! He ran in, picked up the baseball and tagged him with it. Second base umpire Nestor Chylak called Robinson out. Officially it went into the books as a force out; third to second to first to right field. The Sox behind Joe Horlen would win the game 5-0. June 27, 2004 - The first of the on-field steps that would eventually lead to a World Series title took place on this day as the Sox acquired starting pitcher Freddy Garcia from the Mariners for catcher Miguel Olivo and outfielder Jeremy Reed. Some fans anguished over the loss of five tool prospect Reed, but no one was complaining after Garcia helped close out the Astros the following October to clinch the first championship in 88 seasons. Freddy would go on to win 55 games for the Sox in two different stints. In each of his three full years with the team, 2005, 2006 and 2010 he’d win at least 12 games.

That's generally how it seems to work. Hope they saved a few things for tomorrow! LOL This was fun tonight though, nice to see a laugher.

Correct. And JR has made it very clear he expects his family to keep the Bulls (because the NBA has a salary cap...BIG surprise eh?) and sell the Sox.

It was announced on Friday that Lukas and Samantha Walton have acquired a minority interest in both the Bulls and the United Center, but it will change nothing as far as the controlling interest the Reinsdorfs have in the team.https://chicago.suntimes.com/bulls/2026/06/26/reinsdorfs-new-investors-bulls-and-united-center

But of course...typical White Sox luck.

I don't have an answer to that other than perhaps the capacity of the park was changed between 1964 and 1973. I do know they were standing/sitting in the aisles, center field under the scoreboard was jammed and they were standing in the catwalks that connected the scoreboard area with left and right field.

Exactly.

Four factoids today: June 26, 1983 - Sox slugger Greg “The Bull” Luzinski belted the first of his three rooftop home runs at Comiskey Park, becoming the first player to ever hit that many in a single season. Luzinski powered a pitch from the Twins Brian Oelkers over the roof in left center field. The shot came in the third inning of a game the Sox would win 9-7. It was a two-run home run scoring Tom Paciorek. June 26, 1986 - It was the best trade in the short career of G.M. Ken “Hawk” Harrelson. Harrelson sent catcher Scott Bradley to the Mariners for outfielder Ivan Calderon. Calderon would hit 28 home runs in 1987 and would be a big part offensively and defensively for the Sox in their spectacular 1990 campaign. He’d lead the team that year with 74 RBI’s as the Sox stunned baseball by winning 94 games. He’d then be traded as part of the Tim Raines deal in December 1990 by G.M. Ron Schueler before coming back for nine games late in the 1993 season. To make room for him the Sox traded pitcher Donn Pall. June 26, 2010 - The Sox beat the Cubs 3-2 to run their winning streak to 11 games in a row. The streak started on June 15 and saw the Sox blitz National League clubs during the interleague portion of the schedule. They took three from Pittsburgh, three from Washington, three from Atlanta and two from the Cubs. During the streak they outscored opponents 51-24 with three shutouts. It was the 12th time in franchise history the Sox had a double-digit win streak and the first since they won 10 in a row in 1976. Ironically in that 1976 season they also had a double-digit losing streak! June 26, 2015 - In yanking the fourth pitch of the game deep and out to right field, Adam Eaton became just the second White Sox hitter to club leadoff home runs in consecutive games. It was Eaton’s only hit in an eventual 5-4 win over the Tigers. The White Sox had won Eaton’s first leadoff homer game, 8-7 in 10 innings, also against Detroit. Thirteen years earlier, Kenny Lofton became the first White Sox hitter to accomplish this feat, clubbing leadoff dingers on July 18-19, 2002.

I was at this game myself as well. May 20, 1973 - A Sunday afternoon bat day double header with the Twins brought the largest crowd out to ever see a game in the original Comiskey Park. 55,555 packed into the stadium filling every single inch of it, including standing on the catwalks that connected the left and right field bleachers with the center field scoreboard area. To his dying day, two-time White Sox owner Bill Veeck refused to believe that figure was accurate, he thought it was too low. The Sox split the pair of games that afternoon.

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Six years double figures in home runs, stole a ton of bases and had some good years batting average wise. His error totals weren't crazy, we're not talking Tim Anderson here and the strike outs weren't ridiculous. I'd take his career anytime on my team.

With that tough road trip coming up next week and having lost 13 of their last 18 road games, they need to make some hay that's for sure.

Durham really was a complete player, very underrated.

Like I've been writing NEVER underestimate the stupidity of the owners. It's almost like they are doing everything they can to force a confrontation. (Which if past is prologue they'll eventually crack, cave-in and lose)

From MLB.com this afternoon: Q: Hey Mark, can you lie to me and tell me the White Sox are going to be big players at the deadline this year? Feinsand: Why wouldn't the White Sox be a player? After the past few seasons they have endured, the Sox know how tough it is to contend. Assuming that Chicago continues to hang around the top of the AL Central and/or the AL Wild Card race, I think Chris Getz will add to the roster for the stretch run. Now, I'm not suggesting that the Sox will trade away their top prospects for a rental like Tarik Skubal, but if there's an opportunity to acquire players under control for another year or two, there's no reason for them not to do that. Adding a starter or two (think of guys like Seth Lugo, Michael Wacha, Reid Detmers, etc.) would not be a surprise at all.

Five factoids today: June 25, 1953 - Sox manager Paul Richards was regarded as one of the smartest people ever to lead a team in baseball history. Here’s what I mean...with the Sox going for a series sweep of New York and leading 4-2 in the ninth inning at Yankee Stadium, Richards brought in pitcher Harry Dorish to relieve Billy Pierce. Only Richards didn’t remove Pierce from the game! He moved him to first base. After Dorish faced two hitters, Pierce was brought back to the mound to end the game which he did getting Johnny Mize to hit into a force out and then striking out pinch-hitter Bill Renna. Richards pulled off this maneuver at least twice while the White Sox skipper, the first time on May 15, 1951 at Boston. In both cases the pitchers involved were Dorish and Pierce. June 25, 1964 - An overflow crowd of over 52 thousand jammed Comiskey Park to watch the Sox hammer the Cubs 11-1 in the annual “Boys Benefit Game.” The Sox, who were the visiting team that night, hit four home runs including back-to-back-to-back shots in the third inning. The home runs were hit by Ron Hansen, Tommy McCraw and Jerry McNertney. Floyd Robinson also had a home run. What was significant however was the fact that fans were allowed on the outfield grass behind ropes, since there wasn’t any room left in the park. It was the last time fans have ever been permitted to stand on the playing field for a game. The game raised almost $100,000 for charity. June 25, 1991 - Sox pitcher “Black” Jack McDowell fired the first shutout for the home team in the new Comiskey Park when he blanked the Mariners 4-0. Jack was masterful on the day and carried a no-hitter into the eighth inning. He’d end up with a three-hitter and seven strikeouts. June 25, 2006 - With the White Sox trailing the Astros 9-2, in the eighth inning at U.S. Cellular Field, second baseman Tadahito Iguchi hit a three-run home run to narrow the deficit to 9-5. In the ninth inning, Iguchi connected again, this time for a grand slam to tie the game. The Sox lost the game in the 13th inning, but Iguchi set a franchise record, as the White Sox had hit grand slams in three consecutive days. Scott Podsednik hit a grand slam two days earlier, and Joe Crede hit one the day before. Iguchi’s seven RBI’s was one off the club record. June 25, 2016 - The White Sox tied the franchise record, first set in 1955, by blasting seven home runs in a single game. It took place against the Blue Jays at U.S. Cellular Field. But there was one problem…they lost the game 10-8. It was only the third time in baseball history to that point, a team hit that many home runs in a game and lost it. Detroit did it the other two times in 1995 and 2004. The Sox players to hit home runs were Brett Lawrie with two, Dioner Navarro, J.B. Shuck, Tim Anderson, Alex Avila and Adam Eaton.

I think I saw where KC lost one of their power hitters a few days ago to the IL.

I know they took the series and that is worth noting but to me this one hurt again like Sunday. After that 9th inning they had momentum then in the 10th, bases loaded, one out and you can't get the guy home from third? Fundamentals, pure fundamentals. God I hate the friggin' Manfred rule with a passion. Get the day off and see what they can do against a K.C. team that is (or was) missing some key players. They should have swept these bastards today.

SEVEN factoids today: June 24, 1914 – In a telegram discovered in 2012, White Sox owner Charles Comiskey told scout George Mills that the asking price for pitcher “Babe” Ruth was too high at 16,000 thousand dollars. At the time Ruth was playing for the Baltimore Orioles. Comiskey had sent Mills to scout the best Orioles players on June 9. Mills gave Comiskey a list of six players he thought were the best with Ruth among them. He later revealed that Jack Dunn, the Orioles owner, said Ruth could be had himself for 16,000 thousand dollars cash. In the telegram Comiskey replied “Do not need pitchers bad enough to go that high price.” The White Sox thus joined the Cincinnati Reds and the Philadelphia A’s in turning down chances to get Ruth. Ruth eventually was sold to the Red Sox. Comiskey later would try to get Ruth before the start of the 1920 season offering “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and cash to Boston to no avail as they then sold him to the Yankees. June 24, 1956 - It was probably the biggest White Sox weekend of the 1950's. Two days earlier the Sox started, what was an unheard of, four game sweep of the Yankees winning 5-4 in 12 innings. Saturday the Sox shut out the Bombers 2-0. Then on Sunday before almost 48 thousand, the Sox took a pair, closing to within one game of first place. Larry Doby would hit a pair of three run shots in the twin bill helping to account for the 14-2 and 6-3 wins. He went 5 for 7 with six runs scored in addition to the six RBI’s. Fans by the hundreds poured on to the field during the second game, simply to get the chance to shake players’ hands and run around the outfield. Then Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley came out and said that the Sox would be in the World Series that fall. Of course, they didn’t... but they did finish the season at 85-69 good for third place. June 24, 1969 - In the second game of a double header in Seattle, Sox third baseman Bill Melton slugged three home runs in the 7-6 win. All were solo blasts. The Sox took the first game as well winning 6-4 with relief pitcher Wilbur Wood picking up wins in both games allowing only two hits in almost six innings of work. June 24, 1972 - Behind the inspired play of Dick Allen, Wilbur Wood, Stan Bahnsen, Rich “Goose” Gossage, Terry Forster and Carlos May, the Sox were in the middle of a pennant chase when the bizarre injury curse struck again. Third baseman Bill Melton fell off a ladder damaging his back during the previous off season and had been playing in pain ever since. The defending American League home run champion was put on the disabled list and lost for the rest of the year when it was discovered he had a herniated disk. He only played in 57 games with seven home runs and 30 RBI’s. The reason he was on the ladder? His young son was with him as he was re-nailing some patio roof shingles when the boy started to slide towards the edge as he was on the roof. Melton caught him but fell backwards on to the ground right on his tailbone. The Sox would finish five and a half games behind the Oakland A’s with a record of 87-67. June 24, 1973 - It almost tied the club record. In the second game of a double header at Comiskey Park, Sox catcher Ed Herrmann drove in seven RBI’s in the 11-1 win over the A’s. Herrmann went 3 for 4 with a three-run home run, a two-run double and a two-run single. The club record is eight RBI’s in a game. June 24, 1977 – It was an embarrassing moment for Sox outfielder Ralph Garr and, as it turned out, a costly one for the team. In the third inning of a game in Minnesota, Garr hit what appeared to be a three-run home run... however as he was running the bases he passed catcher Jim Essian who was returning to first base because he thought the ball might be caught. Garr was watching the ball and didn’t see Essian until it was too late. He was called out for passing the runner and awarded a two-run single. The Sox wound up losing the game 7-6. June 24, 2017 – It was Mark Buehrle day at Guaranteed Rate Field as the White Sox honored the left hander by retiring his number #56. Buehrle played 12 seasons with the Sox winning 161 games including a perfect game against Tampa and a no-hitter against Texas. He also won two post season games and saved another. He was a three-time All-Star who won the 2005 contest. Buehrle was a model of consistency with 11 straight years winning in double figures, starting 30 or more games and throwing at least 200 innings with the franchise.

It's not often when you win a game getting only three hits. Very well done!