Monday at 04:24 PM4 days Three factoids today:April 13, 1965 - The Sox turned the tide so to speak from 1964, beating the Orioles in Baltimore opening day, by the score of 5-3.They lost to the same club to open the 1964 season at Comiskey Park by the exact same margin.Tommy John, making his White Sox debut, picked up the save for Gary Peters. He struck out John “Boog” Powell with two on in the ninth inning to close it out.The 1965 White Sox would win 95 games under Al Lopez in his last full season as Sox skipper. They finished in second place, seven games out.April 13, 2009 - The White Sox beat the Tigers, 10-6, in a unique game in baseball history. Jermaine Dye and Paul Konerko hit back-to-back home runs in the second inning — both times reaching the 300-homer career mark!According to Baseball-Reference, no teammates have ever reached 300, 400, or 500 home run milestones in the same game, much less the same inning or with back-to-back blasts.April 13, 2024 – It was another glass half empty, glass half full kind of a day for a White Sox team that opened the season losing for the 12th time in 14 games, the franchise record.Sox starter Garrett Crochet became the third Major League pitcher since at least 1901 to record 30 or more strikeouts and four or fewer walks over his first four career starts, joining Masahiro Tanaka (35/2 in 2014), and Felix Hernandez (30/4 in ‘05).He also became the seventh White Sox hurler to put together a 10-plus strikeout game within his first four career starts and set a new franchise record for most strikeouts through that many starts. But unfortunately his teammates were held to two hits and shut out 5-0 by the Reds. It was the fifth shutout by the club in the first 14 games played in the season.
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