THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: AUGUST 6TH

 

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1935: The Sox defeated the New York Yankees 9-8 in 15-innings. Zeke Bonura stole home for the winning White Sox run.

 

1959: The White Sox and Orioles battled to a 1-1 tie in 18 innings at Memorial Stadium at Baltimore. The game was the seventh longest in White Sox history at the time. Billy Pierce went 16 innings before giving way to Turk Lown. This game only took four hours.

 

1991: Carlton Fisk hit his 200th homer in a White Sox uniform and drove in the tying runs in a 14-5 waylaying of the New York Yankees before 37,355 at Comiskey Park. The Yankees scored five in the first but the Sox pulled even with a five-spot in the fifth. Fisk then tied the game with a two-run single. The Sox took the lead for good in the next inning on Joey Cora’s RBI. In the eighth, Fisk launched his historic blast with Frank Thomas on first.

 

I wonder what Billy's pitch count was in that game? I also wonder what manager would let a pitcher go 16 innings (of course assuming he was pitching effectively) today?

Edited August 6, 200718 yr by Yossarian

I wonder what Billy's pitch count was in that game? I also wonder what manager would let a pitcher go 16 innings (of course assuming he was pitching effectively) today?

Great question ... I bet it wasn't that high figuring the game was only four hours and his strikeout, walk and hit totals weren't high.

 

 

I'll assume around 10 pitches an inning and thats rather low so at least 160.