May 11May 11 Three factoids today:May 11, 1949 - The Sox scored at least one run in every inning when they beat Boston 12-8. It was the first time the team had ever accomplished this unusual feat. Second baseman Cass Michaels had three RBI’s. The Sox clubbed 15 hits and the Red Sox made four errors.May 11, 1968 - The 1968 White Sox were not a good team losing 95 games on the year but pitcher Joe Horlen was an exception to that rule.Horlen who finished second in the 1967 Cy Young voting began a run of 37 consecutive shutout innings on this day when he pitched into the seventh inning at Oakland allowing three hits. Six days later in Chicago he shut out the A’s allowing four hits in 10 innings. At Baltimore he allowed two hits in seven innings then at Yankee Stadium blanked the Bombers on four hits pitching into the ninth inning.The streak finally ended on May 29 when Baltimore scored a run on him in the sixth inning at Comiskey Park. In 37 innings he allowed a total of 18 hits and picked up three wins with a complete game.For the year Joe would go 12-14 but…his ERA was 2.37!May 11, 2025 – Tim Elko certainly made his first Major League hit count during a 4-2 White Sox win over the Marlins at Rate Field.After hitting into a double play and striking out against Sandy Alcantara, giving him an 0-5 start in two games since arriving from Triple-A Charlotte, Elko connected on a 1-0 hanging curve from Alcantara for a three-run homer in the sixth that ended up being the game-winner. Matt Thaiss and Joshua Palacios, who both singled, scored ahead of Elko, who pointed to his family behind home plate after coming across. Elko followed Braden Shewmake and Carlos Lee as White Sox players with a homer for their first career hit. Shewmake connecting on March 30, 2024 off the first pitch he saw from Detroit’s Kenta Maeda and Lee homered off the A’s knuckleballer Tom Candiotti on May 7, 1999.
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