THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: APRIL 25

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THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: APRIL 25

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TURNING POINT IN TEXAS

1990:

Bobby Thigpen ended a bases-loaded rally in the eighth with a double play ball and fanned the side in the ninth to preserve the Sox 5-4 win at Texas. Thigpen’s fourth save finished off Jack McDowell’s first win of the season as the Sox halted a four-game losing streak. After a disappointing setback the night before where Thipgen surrendered two home runs as part of the Rangers’five-run ninth, manager Jeff Torborg later cited this “bounce back” game where Thigpen was so confidently dominant as a turning point in the surprisingly successful 1990 campaign which resulted in 94 victories.

A ROBINSON ROOFER

1951:

Eddie Robinson hit the first roof shot home run by a White Sox player at Comiskey Park in an 8-6 win in the first game of a doubleheader over the St. Louis Browns before 4,558 at 35th and Shields. The blast clears the right field roof, which was added in 1927. Robinson’s blast came off Al Widmar and was the eighth roof shot homer in the park’s history and the first since Boston’s Ted Williams victimized John Rigney on May 7, 1941.

FORD’S LAST HURRAH

1967:

Future Hall of Famer Whitey Ford posted the final win of his career in the Yankees’ 11-2 victory over the White Sox in New York. The left-hander went the distance for the 236th triumph of his career.

HEY BUDDY … A ROOFER

1969:

The White Sox Buddy Bradford clubbed the 15th roof shot home run at Comiskey Park in a 6-5 win over the Minnesota Twins before 9,336 at 35th and Shields. Bradford victimized Tom Hall in the first inning for the fourth “roofer” by a White Sox player and the first by a Sox player in five years. The blast was part of a four-run first but it took a walkoff single by Carlos May to win the game.