THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 15

[StatManDu]

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 15

 

 

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1993: Wilson Alvarez fashioned the best game of his career in the White Sox 4-0 win over the Athletics at the Oakland Coliseum. Alvarez blanked Oakland on three hits and one walk whilefanning 11. Alvarez allowed just five baserunners and none of them got past second base. Ron Karkovice homered and doubled to drive in two of the Sox four runs.

 

1997: The White Sox blasted the Reds 14-6 in an interleague game at Cincinnati. Trailing 4-3 heading into the fifth, the Sox got a three-run homer from Harold Baines and a solo shot from Ray Durham in taking the lead for good. The Sox locked it up with five in the seventh. The outburst was highlighted by a three-run home run from Jorge Fabregas. Carlos Castillo got the win and singled in his only at bat. The hit was the first by a White Sox pitcher since Ken Brett singled as a pinch-hitter Aug. 20, 1976 off Baltimore's Wayne Garland at Comiskey Park. Castillo's hit was the first by a White Sox pitcher while in the game as a pitcher, in his own victory and in a road game since Sept. 29, 1972 when Tom Bradley singled off Rich Hand.

 

2000: The first-place White Sox obliterated the New York Yankees 12-3 at Yankee Stadium. The White Sox broke the game open with three in the fifth and then closed out the Bronx Bombers by scoring two in each of the seventh, eighth and ninth innings. Paul Konerko and Magglio Ordonez each homered while Konerko and Brook Fordyce ach drove in three runs. The victory was the Sox 1th in their last 12 outings and their eighth in a row on the road. The victory also enabled the White Sox to open up a 5.5 game lead in the American League Central.

 

2004: Timo Perez and Carlos Lee helped the White Sox pull out one of their most dramatic wins of the season in a 7-5 triumph in 10 innings at Florida. Perez hit a two-run homer off Marlin stopper Armandon Benitez in the ninth to force extra innings. In the 10th, Carlos Lee doubled to extend his hitting streak to a club record 28 games. Miguel Olivo scored the winning run after drawing a bases-loaded walk in the 10th. Kelly Dransfeldt drove in Lee with the Sox final run.

 

2005: The first-place and future World Series champion White Sox used a 10-run sixth inning in doubling over Arizona 12-6 before 24,499 at US Cellular Field. The Sox trailed 6-2 heading into the sixth but got three-run home runs from Paul Konerko and Juan Uribe and a solo shot from Frank Thomas en route to their biggest frame since an 11-run output on April 18, 2000 against Seattle. The three-home run inning was the 30th in team history. Jon Garland got the win to become the first pitcher to reach 11 victories in 2005. The win also moved Garland to 8-0 at home in 2005.

[The Ginger Kid]

2000: The first-place White Sox obliterated the New York Yankees 12-3 at Yankee Stadium. The White Sox broke the game open with three in the fifth and then closed out the Bronx Bombers by scoring two in each of the seventh, eighth and ninth innings. Paul Konerko and Magglio Ordonez each homered while Konerko and Brook Fordyce ach drove in three runs. The victory was the Sox 1th in their last 12 outings and their eighth in a row on the road. The victory also enabled the White Sox to open up a 5.5 game lead in the American League Central.

I enjoyed this stretch of baseball as much as any I've ever seen.

[StatManDu]

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Jun 15, 2007 -> 02:00 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I enjoyed this stretch of baseball as much as any I've ever seen.

Agreed ... The absolute destruction in Yankee Stadium was especially sweet.