Thursday at 04:34 AM3 days April 2, 1900 - The White Sox played their first ever game. It would be an exhibition win over the University of Illinois baseball team. The final score was 10-9. That season the American League wasn’t considered a part of Major League Baseball. That would happen the following year. However the Sox would take the pennant on September 12 when they beat the Cleveland Blues 12-4 and 9-1.April 2, 2021 – Now this is how you make a debut! Sox catcher/DH Yermin Mercedes had over two thousand minor league at-bats before finally making the team’s opening day roster. On this night in Anaheim, he had a sensational debut going 5 for 5, with four RBI’s in the 12-8 win. Mercedes had four singles and a double in the game.The last time a rookie had five hits in their first game in the big leagues was in 1933 when Cecil Travis of the Senators did it.Mercedes would go on to have 12 hits in his first four games setting the modern Major League record and be named the American League Player of the Week.April 2, 2023 – As the White Sox were splitting an opening four game series in Houston, the starting pitchers each struck out at least six Astro batters. That was the first time in franchise history that took place.The individual breakdown saw Dylan Cease with 10, Lance Lynn and Lucas Giolito with six each and Mike Clevinger fanned eight. April 2, 2024 – Sox starting pitcher Garrett Crochet wrote his name in the team record book after throwing seven innings allowing one run and striking out eight in beating Atlanta 3-2 on a raw night at Guaranteed Rate Field.This came off his start against Detroit on opening day where he allowed a single run in six innings striking out eight. It was his first two Major League starts and the 16 total strikeouts were the most ever for a Sox pitcher in the first two starts of his career.He also joined Jack McDowell (1991) and Juan Pizarro (1963) as throwing at least six innings with one or fewer runs and at least six strikeouts in their first two starts of the season.
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