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You must have a thing for births and deaths.

Three factoids today: May 21, 1905 - White Sox pitcher Frank Smith fired a one-hitter in beating the Senators 2-1 at South Side Park. Washington scored their only run and got their only hit in the first inning as Smith walked former teammate Charlie Jones to open the game then after an out, he was driven home on a single by Jake Stahl. Smith helped his own cause in the fifth inning by hitting a double then when he was on third base came home on a bobbled ground ball resulting in an error. It was the decisive run in the game. Washington made three errors on the afternoon with the game played in front of over 25-thousand fans. May 21, 1943 - The White Sox won the fastest nine-inning game they’ve ever played, 1-0 over the Senators at Comiskey Park. Johnny Humphries threw a three-hitter in a game that took just one hour, 29 minutes. Humphries in fact scored the game’s only run, doubling to lead off the fifth and getting singled home by Thurman Tucker. May 21, 2009 - The White Sox tied the team record for worst defeat based on run difference in their history, when they were annihilated 20-1 by the Twins at U.S. Cellular Field. The 19-run difference was first set on May 10, 2002 in Anaheim. Bartolo Colon, Lance Broadway and Jimmy Gobble gave up all the runs. Colon at least had something of an excuse…of the eight runs he allowed, seven were unearned!

It's actually the Phillies, Braves, Dodgers and Yankees. Philly has been red hot since Mattingly took over.

Three factoids today: May 20, 1920 – At Griffith Stadium in Washington on this afternoon the White Sox would set the team record for the most runs ever scored in an extra inning. In the 16th inning they were able to score eight times to beat the Senators 13-5. The Senators made nine errors on the day leading to nine unearned runs. Sox Hall of Fame pitcher Urban “Red” Faber worked all 16 innings allowing 18 hits, three earned runs and faced 64 batters! 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. May 20, 2006 – The Cubs/Sox rivalry never got hotter than on this day at U.S. Cellular Field when Cubs catcher Michael Barrett sucker punched the Sox A.J. Pierzynski which started a brawl around home plate. The game was the national telecast on the Fox Network. In the second inning Brian Anderson hit a fly to left field. A.J. tagged up, ran over Barrett who was blocking the plate, then went back and slapped his hand on it. Barrett took exception and punched Pierzynski on the side of his jaw. The punch didn’t faze A.J. but both benches cleared. As a result, Barrett, A.J., Anderson and John Mabry were ejected. The Sox, behind Freddy Garcia, won the game 7-0. Tadahito Iguchi belted two home runs, one a grand slam and drove in six RBI’s on the day.

One of the more unusual one-hitters in team history to be sure. Four pitchers combine on it. Ranks right up there with other 'bizarre' one-hitters. The complete game one-hitters that Rich Dotson (1983) and Freddy Garcia (2005) LOST and Jack McDowell's strange complete game one-hitter at Milwaukee (1991). Paul Molitor started the Brewers half of the first with a home run...after that Milwaukee got nothing from Jack the rest of the way.

7th time this season the Sox trailed in the 7th inning or later and won the game. Taylor sure made a strong case tonight to be the closer in my opinion.

I think it does make a difference although history shows there have been clubs that literally hated each other yet still did very well on the field.

Correct, it will be part of the factoids on Wednesday.

Or maybe the Sox coaching staff should come up with a different way/pattern to try to pitch to Naylor?

Typical. As Ozzie once said, "That's the way we roll..." If the Sox are going to look for pitching reinforcements it looks like it's going to have to come via trade because yet again it seems most of their better prospects in the system can't stay healthy. And should any 'difference makers' become available from teams out of it, I wouldn't expect the Sox to be active participants in those discussions given JR's 'attitude' towards top quality pitching and the uncertain labor situation upcoming.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/19/chicago-bears-stadium-slag-heap-hammond/

Six factoids today: May 19, 1908 – White Sox pitcher Guy “Doc” White tossed his fifth one-hitter and beat Washington 2-0. The only hit he allowed came off the bat of outfielder Bob Ganley. White helped his own cause with an RBI single scoring catcher Billy Sullivan. White faced only 28 hitters on the day, one over the minimum. May 19, 1914 – White Sox pitcher Ed Cicotte fired his first one-hitter beating the Athletics 3-0 at Shibe Park. Cicotte took a no-hitter into the eighth inning before the A’s John “Stuffy” McInnis singled to left field with one out. He was the A’s only base runner on the afternoon. May 19, 1959 – White Sox broadcaster Bob Elson called Memorial Stadium in Baltimore the ‘Chamber of Horrors’ because of the strange, weird and bizarre events that always seemed to take place when the White Sox were in town. On this night another one of those incidents took place as the O’s beat the Sox and Billy Pierce 2-1. In the second inning of a scoreless game and with Billy Gardner on first, Baltimore pitcher Billy O’Dell sliced a drive down the right field line. The ball hit the foul line-the only one in the Major Leagues made out of wood and bounced over the head of charging right fielder Al Smith. The ball rolled along the cinder warning track towards the right field corner. By the time it was retrieved Gardner scored easily and O’Dell had himself possibly the most unusual inside the park home run ever. May 19, 1963 - Sox starter Ray Herbert’s consecutive scoreless inning streak ended controversially in (where else?) Baltimore. Herbert, a 20-game winner in 1962, had thrown 38 straight scoreless innings when he faced the Orioles Johnny Orsino in the third inning. Orsino then hit what appeared to be a home run to left field...or did he? Both manager Al Lopez and outfielder Dave Nicholson argued that the ball Orsino hit passed between the top of the wall and an iron railing mounted on top of it with support posts to help keep fans from falling over on to the field of play. By going through the gap, it should have been ruled a ground rule double. They lost the argument; Herbert lost his scoreless streak but the Sox won the game 4-3 in 10 innings to get a double header split. May 19, 1996 - In a 14-3 clubbing of the Tigers in Detroit, Sox players Darren Lewis and Robin Ventura hit grand slams. The home runs came in the third and ninth innings. Both had four RBI’s in the game. May 19, 2004 - The 2004 season which had started off well for the White Sox, took a dramatic turn as on a short pop up to right field in Cleveland, infielder Willie Harris slammed his shoulder into outfielder Magglio Ordonez’s knee. Ordonez would go on the injured list, come back and play a few games, then miss the rest of the season. Eventually he’d go to Europe for an operation and leave the Sox as a free agent signing with Detroit. The Sox won the game 15-3 but losing Ordonez was huge.

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Three factoids today: May 18, 1902 – White Sox pitcher James “Nixey” Callahan became the first player in MLB history to record five hits from the number nine spot in the batting order. The feat came in a 17-inning, 2-2 tie with St. Louis. For good measure, Callahan duplicated the feat less than one year later, in a 13-12 loss to the Browns on May 8, 1903 — and in that game, “Nixey” needed just 12 innings to compile his hits. In both games by the way, Callahan went the distance on the mound. May 18, 1957 – Historically if it was Baltimore, it usually meant strange things for the White Sox. Case in point, on this night the Sox had to catch a train to Boston and the Orioles agreed to end the game at 10:20 their time regardless of the outcome. The Sox trailed 3-0 going into the seventh inning when they scored four runs. That half inning was strange in itself because the Sox used five pinch hitters and two pinch runners in it! The Sox were still leading 4-3 in the ninth inning. Paul LaPalme was brought in to protect the lead. With 30 seconds remaining until curfew, he elected to pitch to Dick Williams. League rules did not allow for a suspended game under these circumstances so the Sox could have legally stalled the final seconds away. Unfortunately, they didn’t. LaPalme threw...Williams swung...home run. Tie game... make that a suspended tie game which had to be replayed from the start later in the season. May 18, 1983 - Still another bizarre moment in Baltimore. On this night Sox pitcher Rich Dotson tossed a complete game one-hitter. Only he lost it 1-0! His only mistake came when “Disco” Danny Ford lofted a pitch down the right field line at Memorial Stadium that fell into the first row of seats. The ‘blast’ went about 312 feet, an out in most other parks. The hit came in the eighth inning. Dotson wasn’t sharp overall, allowing seven walks but he kept getting out of trouble until Ford connected.

They need Taylor for the bullpen possibly to start closing games. Barring a run of injuries to starting position players the Cubs have more than enough to make the post season in a pretty strong National League. The A.L. is really down this season so anything is possible for the Sox given the division they are in.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2026/05/17/new-knee-issue-adds-to-intrigue-surrounding-white-sox-catcher-kyle-teel

6th time this year the Sox trailed in the 7th inning or later and won the game. They showed some heart and guts today. Well done. (Now as far as the "closer" situation"...that's another story)

He's just not that good. The Cubs meanwhile has been very good getting the ghost runner home in extra innings.

Three factoids today: May 17, 1969 – It was one of the few highlights in a dismal season. Sox pitcher Jerry Nyman one-hit the Senators, winning in Chicago 6-0. Nyman allowed only a one out single in the second inning to Brant Alyea…a comebacker right through the box that Nyman could not get a glove on. Nyman also helped himself with the bat in that game hitting a bases loaded double knocking in three runs. May 17, 2021 – Sox catcher Yasmani Grandal was the lone starter not to get a hit in a 16-4 beating of the Twins up in Minnesota. But he still landed on base four times via walks, scored three times and drove in a run with a sacrifice fly. Grandal, became the first player in White Sox history to have three games where he walked four or more times in a season. May 17, 2021 – In the Sox blowout win over the Twins in Minnesota, national controversy erupted centering around the ‘unwritten’ rules of baseball. With the Sox leading 15-4 the Twins used a position player, Willians Astudillo to pitch the ninth inning. He lobbed up a 47 miles per hour pitch to Yermin Mercedes who blasted it over the center field fence. Twins manager Rocco Baldelli took exception to it as well as many baseball traditionalists. White Sox manager Tony LaRussa wasn’t happy with it either saying what Mercedes did disrespected the game as well as he missed the take sign on that pitch. Some of Mercedes teammates and many Sox fans disagreed saying that using a position player instead of a regular pitcher also disrespected the game and that until the game is over players are expected to do their best regardless of the score. The next day, after the Twins threw at Mercedes, LaRussa ignited another controversy when he said that he didn’t think Twins pitcher Tyler Duffey deliberately did that, that it may have been a pitch that got away from him. Some Sox fans feel this was the moment when LaRussa began to lose the clubhouse and the Sox started sliding back towards mediocrity for the rest of the season and into the 2022 campaign.

Five home runs in a game generally will get the job done for you.

I remember that from the 1990 season. Sports Illustrated even mentioned it in the story they did on the Sox.

Four factoids today: May 16, 1900 – White Sox player-manager Dick Padden was clubbed over the head with a bat during a fight in the third inning at Detroit. The fracas started with the White Sox up, 4-2, after an uncalled balk by Chicago pitcher Chauncey Fisher that was then reversed under protest by the Tigers, scoring a run for Detroit. That in turn got the ire of Padden. After the arguments and consultation of the rule book, Padden returned to his position at second base as play resumed, but was getting cussed out by Detroit outfielder James “Ducky” Holmes — who wasn’t playing in the game, and not even in uniform! Padden threw a punch at Holmes and missed, and in the ensuing melee a Detroit player crowned Padden with a blow from a bat. Once things calmed again and play was to resume, Detroit manager George Stallings stormed onto the field with a policeman, demanding Padden be arrested; to no avail, and the White Sox prevailed in the game, 7-3. May 16, 1953 - White Sox pitcher Tommy Byrne, who was knocked out of the game in an eventual win against the Yankees two days earlier, was sent up to pinch hit for Vern Stephens in the ninth inning with the bases loaded and the Sox trailing 3-1. Byrne then slammed a 2-2 pitch from relief pitcher/sidewinder Ewell “The Whip” Blackwell into the lower deck in right field at Yankee Stadium for the only pinch-hit grand slam by a pitcher in team history! The Sox would win the game 5-3, scoring all their runs in the ninth inning. That was the only home run Byrne hit that year for the White Sox although he’d had 14 of them in his big-league career. May 16, 1978 - With the Sox record a dismal 9-20 and knowing that there was no way he was going to be able to re-sign him, Sox owner Bill Veeck traded slugger Bobby Bonds to the Rangers for Claudell Washington and Rosendo “Rusty” Torres. Bonds would only play in 26 games for the Sox, with two home runs and eight RBI’s. Making matters worse was that to get Bonds the previous December, Veeck traded three players including future All-Star Brian Downing to get him. Washington would become the target of fan displeasure because of his tendency to take it easy on the field while with the team. One fan made up a banner, hung over the right field wall, which expressed that sentiment “Washington slept here.” Torres’s claim to fame (and this is a great trivia question) was that he was on the field for all of the forfeited games in baseball during the 1970’s. Torres was with the Yankees when the final game in Washington was forfeited as fans rushed the field in 1971; he was in Cleveland for the dime beer night fiasco in 1974 and was with the Sox during the “Disco Demolition” forfeit in 1979. May 16, 1984 - Carlton Fisk had one of his finest games as he became the third player in franchise history to hit for the cycle in a game. It came against the Royals at Comiskey Park. Despite Fisk’s efforts the Sox would lose it 7-6. Carlton went 4 for 5 with two runs and two RBI’s in the game. The triple, by the way, was the only one he’d hit that season.