THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: AUGUST 11/We give you more!

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AUGUST 11TH

 

1910: Ed Walsh tied his own club record by striking out 15 batters in the White Sox 1-0 win against the Boston Red Sox at Comiskey Park. This was the White Sox first shutout and first 1-0 victory at Comiskey Park, which opened July 1. Walsh first set the record Oct. 2, 1908 at Cleveland. The record would be tied two more times before Jack Harshman broke it by fanning 16 on July 25, 1954 at Boston.

 

 

 

1912: Hall of Fame catcher Ray Schalk made his debut as the White Sox were swept by Philadelphia in a doubleheader at Comiskey Park. In his first game, Schalk collected a single in three at bats. Schalk played 17 seasons with the Sox and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1955.

 

 

 

1914: The White Sox posted a pair of 2-0 victories in a doubleheader sweep over the Cleveland Indians at Comiskey Park. Mellie Wolfgang got the win in the first game while Ed Cicotte took the nightcap as the Sox posted the third shutout doubleheader sweep in franchise history and their first since July 31, 1909.

 

 

 

1957: Walt Dropo homered and drove in four in helping the White Sox salvage a split with an 11-2 win over Detroit in the second game of a doubleheader before 25,220 at Comiskey Park. Nellie Fox was 3-for-4 and scored four times in support of Jim Wilson, who went the distance for his 11th win.

 

 

 

1958: Ray Boone drove in two runs without a hit in the White Sox 3-1 win at Cleveland. Boone, playing first base, plated runs in the fourth and sixth innings with sacrifice flys. Billy Pierce went the distance and K’d seven for his 12th triumph.

 

 

 

1961: White Sox legends Luis Aparicio and Billy Pierce teamed up for a 1-0 win over Kansas City before 20,941 at Comiskey Park. Aparicio accounted for the game’s lone run with a homer and Pierce fired a five-hitter in the win that took just 1 hour and 32 minutes.

 

 

 

1962: The White Sox received five RBIs from leadoff hitter Jim Landis and used a seven-run fourth in pasting the Athletics 11-2 in Kansas City.

 

 

 

1963: The last of the White Sox three solo homers salvaged a split of a doubleheader with Detroit before 22,612 at Comiskey Park. Dave Nicholson’s one-out blast in the 11th handed the Sox a 3-2 win in the second game of a doubleheader. The Sox first two runs came on dingers by Pete Ward and Gary Peters. Peters threw all 11 innings and gave up just six hits and one earned run for his 12th victory.

 

 

 

1964: Pete Ward went 6-for-9 with a home run as the White Sox swepta doubleheader from the Yankees in New York. Ward drove in four runs in the Sox 6-4 win in Game 1 and then collected three hits and scored twice in the 8-2 win in the nightcap. Also in the second game, winning pitcher Juan Pizarro clubbed a three-run homer in a five-run sixth.

 

 

 

1965: Juan Pizarro tossed the only one-hitter of his White Sox career in a 7-0 win over the Washington Senators before 15,886 at Comiskey Park. A leadoff single to Woodie Held in the fifth was the only hit Pizarro would permit. The left-hander walked two and struck out for his second win. It was the Sox first one-hitter since Gary Peters’ gem against Baltimore July 15, 1963.

 

 

 

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THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: AUGUST 11TH

 

 

 

1966: John Romano’s two-run homer and Don Buford’s three-run double in the fifth carried the White Sox to a 10-9 win at Kansas City.

 

 

 

1972: After completing a 19-inning loss that began the night before, the White Sox prevailed 1-0 at Oakland thanks to a Carlos May RBI in the first. Dave Lemonds and Cy Acosta combined on a two-hitter.

 

 

 

1973: In just his third big league plate appearance, Brian Downing hit an in-the-park homer for his first hit in a 4-2 loss at Tiger Stadium. Downing victimized Mickey Lolich for the first Sox in-the-park homer since Dick Allen turned the trick twice Sept. 31, 1972 in Minnesota.