THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: AUGUST 31

 

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1914: Jack Fournier became the first player to homer twice off Walter Johnson in the same game in White Sox 4-3 win at Washington. Fournier hit a game-tying homer off the recently-entered Johnson in the eighth and then hit the game-winner in the 10th. Only Lou Gehrig would join Fournier as the lone players to homer twice off the legendary Johnson. Gehrig accomplished the feat on Aug. 13, 1926.

 

1926: Ray Morehart logged nine hits in 10 at bats in the White Sox doubleheader split in Detroit. Morehart’s feat that has been matched (with the last time coming in 1961) but never broken. The Sox ripped the Detroit Tigers 19-2 in Detroit in the first game with Red Faber getting the win in what was the third-highest scoring game in franchise history. The Sox dropped the nightcap 7-6.

 

1935: Vern Kennedy registered the first no-hitter by a White Sox pitcher at Comiskey Park in 43 years in a 5-0 win over the Cleveland Indians. Kennedy walked four and fanned five as the White Sox turned two double plays behind him. He was also the hitting star with a bases-loaded triple.

 

1966: Tommie Agee went 7-for-10 with a double and an two RBIs 19,304 in the White Sox doubleheader sweep of the Tigers before 19,304 at Comiskey Park. Agee scored the winning the run in the 12th inning of the Sox 7-6 victory in Game 1 and he drove in an insurance run in the seventh inning of the Sox 3-1 victory in the nightcap. Pete Ward’s homer earlier in the inning put the Sox on top for good.

 

1993: Frank Thomas tied the White Sox single-season home run record and Tim Raines homered from both sides of the plate in the White Sox 11-3 win at New York. Thomas equalled the 1985 mark of Carlton Fisk and the 1972 mark of Dick Allen by hitting his 37th homer in the first inning. The blast was also the 100th of his career. Raines joined Ken Henderson as the only players in Sox history to homer from both sides of the plate in a game. Raines also swiped his 744th base in the game, which moved him into fourth place on the all-time list.

 

 

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