June 27, 200718 yr THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JUNE 27 For more on this date, see www.whitesoxalamanac.com 1922: Ray Schalk became the first White Sox player and the first American League catcher to hit for the cycle in a 9-5 victory over the Tigers in Detroit. The future Hall of Famer became just the second catcher in big league history to single, double, triple and homer in a game and the first since the Giants’ Chief Meyers victimized the Cubs on June 10, 1912. It would be another 55 years before another Sox player hit for the cycle (Jack Brohamer Sept. 24, 1977). 1958: Billy Pierce came within one out of perfection in a 3-0 win at Washington but settled for a one-hit victory. Washington pinch-hitter Ed Fitzgerald ruined Pierce’s bid to become just the second Sox pitcher to toss a perfecto when he lofted a base hit down the right field line with two outs in the ninth. The shutout was the 30th of Pierce’s steadily sensational career. 1959: Harry “Suitcase” Simpson’s eighth-inning grand slam helped the White Sox dump the Yankees 5-4 before 21,264 at Comiskey Park. 1961: White Sox starting pitchers Frank Baumann and Juan Pizarro went a combined 5-for-6 with a homer, triple and two RBIs as the White Sox swept a doubleheader at Detroit. Baumann went 2-for-2 with in the Sox 6-5 triumph in Game 1. Pizarro was 3-for-4 in the 11-1 win in Game 2. 1962: Ray Herbert fired a five-hitter in the White Sox 6-0 win over the Yankees before 48,544 at Comiskey Park. Herbert, bound for the All-Star Game at Wrigley Field, struck out two in improving to 8-4 in the 1 hour and 55 minute affair. 2003: Jose Valentin’s one-out homer in the ninth powered the White Sox to a 4-3 win over the Cubs before 45,147 at US Cellular Field. Frank Thomas and Carlos Lee also homered as the Sox overcame the Cubs’ two-run ninth for the dramatic victory.
June 27, 200718 yr QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 27, 2007 -> 05:47 PM) Valentin hit the homer about 6 rows over my head. it was incredible. I was right around there as well.
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