Sunday at 04:48 PM3 days Two factoids today:June 14, 1953 - Sox pitchers Billy Pierce and Sandy Consuegra both fired complete game shutouts in beating the Boston Red Sox in a double header at Comiskey Park. The Sox won 6-0 and 1-0. Pierce was brilliant in the opener, with two hits and one walk against eight strike outs. Consuegra got his shutout on an eight-hitter.June 14, 2000 - The White Sox trounced Cleveland, 11-4, but failed to hit a home run which snapped their streak of 17-straight games with at least one long ball, a club record.The streak started on May 26, when Frank Thomas hit a solo home run off Cleveland’s Chuck Finley in the first inning of a 5-3 win. The White Sox hit 28 home runs during the streak, Thomas had eight, Jose Valentín, Carlos Lee and Ray Durham all had five, Magglio Ordonez had three and Chris Singleton and Greg Norton chipped in with one each. Eighteen of the homers were solo shots, seven came with one runner on, two were three-run shots, and one was a grand slam.The White Sox went 13-4 over the 17-games of the streak, raising their record from 26-20 to 39-24 and extending their A.L. Central lead to five games by streak’s end.
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