July 20Jul 20 Five factoids today:July 20, 1941 - Slick fielding Sox first baseman Joe Kuhel tied a Major League record set in 1905 by recording 40 putouts in a double header against the Philadelphia Athletics.Kuhel recorded 17 putouts in the first game and 23 in the second one.The Sox split the two games played at Shibe Park winning the first 14-0 and losing the nightcap 3-0.July 20, 1957 - The Sox Dick Donovan one-hit the Red Sox at Comiskey Park and won 4-0. Ted Williams got Boston’s only hit on a single to right in the fourth inning. It was Donovan’s second one-hitter in two months. On May 25 he one-hit the Indians in Cleveland winning by the same score of 4-0.July 20, 1973 - Wilbur Wood started both regularly scheduled games in New York. He became only the fourth pitcher in the modern era to try this feat. Unfortunately, he got beat around twice, losing both decisions 12-2 and 7-0. Earlier in the season he started the suspended game and a regularly scheduled game in Chicago beating Cleveland twice in the same evening 6-3 and 4-0. July 20, 1975 – Two years later, however, Wilbur Wood capped off a super-hot streak with a third straight win and sixth straight complete game, winning a doubleheader opener vs. Milwaukee, 9-2. Wood had also won games on July 13 and 17, meaning he threw 27 innings with three complete game wins in the space of a week. The first two wins were shutouts versus the Brewers and Tigers.July 20, 2008 – Future Hall of Famer Jim Thome collected his 2,000th Major League hit as he doubled in the seventh inning at U.S. Cellular Field. The hit came off the Royals Ramon Ramirez. Thome would finish his career with 2,328 of them, 469 as a member of the White Sox.
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