July 28, 200718 yr THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: JULY 28TH WWW.WHITESOXALMANAC.COM 1935: Ted Lyons became just the second pitcher in American League history to collect two doubles in an inning in the White Sox 14-10 win over the Browns in the first game of a doubleheader in St. Louis. Lyons, who earned the victory, banged out two doubles in the Sox 10-run second inning. 1936: The White Sox stomped the Philadelphia Athletics 19-6 at Comiskey Park. Bill Dietrich got the win in the third-highest run output in Sox history. Only 10 days earlier, the Sox beat the Athletics 21-14 at Philadelphia's Shibe Park. 1957: Larry Doby’s single in the seventh broke a tie and lifted the White Sox to a 4-3 win at Baltimore. The White Sox survived Jim Landis’ A.L.-record-tying five strikeouts in the victory. 1959: The White Sox moved into first place to stay with a 4-3 victory over the New York Yankees before 43,829 at Comiskey Park. The Sox prevailed behind Billy Pierce’s complete-game effort and Al Smith’s two-run homer in the eighth.
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