This Day In Sox History 8/27...

Five factoids today:

August 27, 1910 - Comiskey Park hosted the first twilight game ever played in a Major League stadium as two Chicago amateur clubs played before 3,500 fans.

The teams were Logan Square and Rogers Park. 20 arc lights were strung up along the perimeter of the field to accomplish it delivering 137,000 thousand candlepower of light. Nine of the 20 lamps were placed on the grandstand roofs: five on the first base side, and four behind third base. Two lamps were on the ground near both the first-and third-base foul lines. Six lamps lined the outfield grass, two behind each fielder. To alleviate the glare – a problem that had adversely affected most previous efforts to play night baseball – twin poles were placed in front of each lamp and black canvas screens added to help better direct the light.

The system was the brainchild of inventor George F. Cahill. The first official night game in Major League history took place in 1935 at Crosley Field in Cincinnati.

The Logan Square club was managed by former White Sox star James “Nixey” Callahan while the Rogers Park team was led by former Cubs outfielder Jimmy Ryan.

Logan Square would win the game 3-0 as George “Big Bane” Hanson a veteran of Chicago’s semi-pro leagues, got the win. He scattered four hits and struck out eight in the game which lasted an hour and fifteen minutes. 

August 27, 1911 – “Big” Ed Walsh fired a no-hitter against the Red Sox at Comiskey Park. It was the first time a Sox pitcher threw a no-hitter in that stadium. The final was 5-0. Walsh only allowed one base runner, Clyde Engle in the fourth inning, via a walk. He struck out eight in winning his 24^th game of the year.

August 27, 2007 - In the midst of a dismal season the Sox produced one highlight. They cranked out four home runs in the seventh inning of a game at U.S. Cellular Field and beat the Devil Rays 5-4. The home runs were hit by A.J. Pierzynski, Jermaine Dye, Juan Uribe and Josh Fields. Pierzynski, Dye and Uribe went back-to-back-to-back.     

August 27, 2021 – It was one of the wildest games the Sox ever played especially in their series against the Cubs as they came from six runs down to beat them 17-13 at Guaranteed Rate Field.

The Sox trailed 6-0 after a half inning as starter Dallas Keuchel got lit up by the North Siders but then the Sox scored nine unanswered runs to grab a lead that they never lost. Catcher Yasmani Grandal, fresh off the injured list that he went on in early July with a torn knee tendon, drove in a franchise tying eight RBI’s on the night.

Grandal had a pair of three run home runs and a two-run double. He went 4 for 6 with two runs scored.

Also of note in the game was the relief work by pitcher Reynaldo Lopez. He came on replacing Keuchel in the second inning and retired 15 straight Cubs striking out seven. He became the first Sox relief pitcher to retire 15 in a row since Ed Cicotte in 1917!  

August 27, 2025 – This is one situation you never want to see happen. With the White Sox getting hammered by the Royals at Rate Field, the final score would be 12-1, Korey Lee came in to pitch the final two innings giving up a run.

Lee had been inserted into the game earlier to catch. He became only the third Sox player to ever pitch and catch in the same game joining Frank Isbell and Sam Mertes, who both did some catching and pitching in the second game of a September 28, 1902, doubleheader.