THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: SEPTEMBER 9

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1917: The White Sox are awarded a 9-0 forfeit victory over Cleveland at Comiskey Park because of the stalling tactics of the Indians. Umpire Buck Owens made the decision after Cleveland players argued a close play for 10 minutes in the ninth inning with several Indians rolling on the ground and tossing their mitts. Owens called the game and gave the Sox the forfeit when Cleveland catcher Steve O’Neil fired the ball into center field after the first Sox batter of the 10th struck out.

 

 

 

1921: The White Sox outlasted the Detroit Tigers 20-15 at Comiskey Park in the highest scoring game in franchise history to that point. The Sox scored at least two runs in every inning but the third and eighth. Winning pitcher Dickie Kerr was the beneficiary of the Sox explosion.

 

 

 

1928: Alex Metzler’s eighth-inning homer untied a 1-1 game and sent the White Sox to a 10-1 win at Cleveland. The homer was Metzler’s third of the year and made a winner out of Ted Lyons, who picked up his 13th victory.

 

 

 

1958: Johnny Callison turned in one of the great Major League debuts by a White Sox player in a 4-1 win over Boston before 11,447 at Comiskey Park. The 19-year-old left fielder went 3-for-3 with two doubles, a run and an RBI. He drove in the tying run with a double in the sixth in his first big league at bat. Callison drew a walk in the second inning inhis first big league plate appearance.

 

 

 

1959: The first-place White Sox scored four runs in the seventh in beating the Senators 5-1 in Washington. Al Smith’s single scored Ted Kluszewski with the go-ahead run in the seventh and made a winner out of Bob Shaw, who went the distance for his 15th win.

 

 

 

1962: Luis Aparicio capped his four-hit day by driving in the winning run in the 11th inning of the Sox 3-2 victory over the Washington Senators in the second game of a doubleheader before 8,771 at Comiskey Park. Aparicio’s single to center scored Charlie Maxwell and allowed the Sox to sweep the twinbill after winning the opener 4-3.

 

 

 

1963: Nellie Fox scored the last of his 1,187 runs for the White Sox in a 9-4 win over the Orioles before 9,523 at Comiskey Park. Fox, who was 4-for-5, crossed the plate for the final time in a Sox uniform on a seventh-inning by Mike Hershberger. At the time, the 1,187 runs ranked second in Sox history to Luke Appling’s 1,319 runs.