This Day In Sox History...October 10

[Lip Man 1]

October 10, 1924 - The White Sox and New York Giants began their second barnstorming tour together. This world tour started in 1924 in Canada and would sail the Atlantic to promote the game in France, England, Ireland, Germany and Italy. Most of the exhibition games were hardly visited. The absolute low was a game in Ireland where only 20 persons attended the game.

Eventually, the tour would be cut short due to the lack of appreciation and understanding for the sport in England and France. Just like with the 1913-14 world tour, King George V of England attended the games. These games were the only ones that were well attended as 24,000 people were in the stands.

 

October 10, 2021 – Things did not look good for the Sox in game #3 of the A.L.D.S. against Houston. The Astros led 5-1 and the White Sox were on the verge of elimination.

Then everything changed.

The Sox rose from the dead scoring five runs in the third inning, three more in the fourth and went on to win 12-6. Finally, after the first 20 hits by the team in the playoff series were all singles, they got a two-run home run from Yasmani Grandal and then a three-run blast from Leury Garcia to turn the game around. Starting a playoff series with 20 straight singles broke the previous Major League record of 19 set by the Angels.

Four White Sox bullpen pitchers then threw five hitless innings to close the door on any Astros comeback. Sox pitchers wound up striking out 16 Astros which also set a franchise mark for a playoff game.

[Bob Sacamano]

6 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

October 10, 1924 - The White Sox and New York Giants began their second barnstorming tour together. This world tour started in 1924 in Canada and would sail the Atlantic to promote the game in France, England, Ireland, Germany and Italy. Most of the exhibition games were hardly visited. The absolute low was a game in Ireland where only 20 persons attended the game.

Eventually, the tour would be cut short due to the lack of appreciation and understanding for the sport in England and France. Just like with the 1913-14 world tour, King George V of England attended the games. These games were the only ones that were well attended as 24,000 people were in the stands.

 

October 10, 2021 – Things did not look good for the Sox in game #3 of the A.L.D.S. against Houston. The Astros led 5-1 and the White Sox were on the verge of elimination.

Then everything changed.

The Sox rose from the dead scoring five runs in the third inning, three more in the fourth and went on to win 12-6. Finally, after the first 20 hits by the team in the playoff series were all singles, they got a two-run home run from Yasmani Grandal and then a three-run blast from Leury Garcia to turn the game around. Starting a playoff series with 20 straight singles broke the previous Major League record of 19 set by the Angels.

Four White Sox bullpen pitchers then threw five hitless innings to close the door on any Astros comeback. Sox pitchers wound up striking out 16 Astros which also set a franchise mark for a playoff game.

One of the top 2 rebuild's competitive window's moment. Ugh.

Edited October 10, 2023 by Bob Sacamano

[reiks12]

This wont be a popular opinion, but I find it sad that our fanbase on Twitter and elsewhere is celebrating the "Leury Game" like its some meaningful moment in Sox history. The crowd was awesome that game, but how many other franchises would celebrate a meaningless ALDS game? The other 3 games where just painful beyond belief. Game 4 was especially embarrassing when our fans were cheering on hurt Astros players and throwing trash on the field. The national coverage on that wasnt favorable. I never want to think about the 2021 playoffs ever.

Edited October 10, 2023 by reiks12

[Lip Man 1]

3 hours ago, reiks12 said:

This wont be a popular opinion, but I find it sad that our fanbase on Twitter and elsewhere is celebrating the "Leury Game" like its some meaningful moment in Sox history. The crowd was awesome that game, but how many other franchises would celebrate a meaningless ALDS game? The other 3 games where just painful beyond belief. Game 4 was especially embarrassing when our fans were cheering on hurt Astros players and throwing trash on the field. The national coverage on that wasnt favorable. I never want to think about the 2021 playoffs ever.

I don't think anyone is "celebrating" that game. Simple fact, it was a rare post season White Sox win and is a historical moment.