THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: OCTOBER 11TH/Postseason, Torborg

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THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: OCTOBER 11TH

 

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1906: The White Sox rode a three-run sixth inning and the pitching of Ed Walsh to a 3-0 win over the Cubs to take a 2-1 lead in the 1906 World Series. Walsh, who threw 10 shutouts during the regular season, limited the Cubs to two hits and one walk while fanning 12 at West Side Park. After allowing a leadoff single, Walsh retired 20 of the next 21 batters he faced. George Rohe was the hero on offense. His bases-clearing triple in the sixth inning accounted for the scoring as the White Sox moved to within two wins of clinching their first World Series title.

 

1917: The White Sox offensive woes continued in a 5-0 loss to the New York Giants in Game 4 of the 1917 World Series at the Polo Grounds. Ferdie Schupp limited the White Sox seven hits as John J. McGraw’s Giants evened the series 2-2. The Giants scored three runs off losing pitcher Red Faber and two more off Dave Danforth. When Chick Gandil flew out to center to end the game, it ran the Sox scoreless streak in the Series to 22 innings.

 

1937: Mike Kreevich homered and Monty Stratton earned the victory as the White Sox beat Cubs 6-4 to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-7 postseason City Series before 11,575 at Comiskey Park. The Sox took the lead for good with two in the third and watched as Clint Brown finished off the Cubs for the save. The Sox would eventually take the Series in seven games.

 

1991: Jeff Torborg resigned as White Sox manager to take the same post with the New York Mets. The affable Torborg served as Sox skipper from 1989 to 1991. He went 250-235 while posting winning seasons in 1990 and 1991. After going 69-92 in 1989, Torborg guided the Sox to a surprising 94-68 record in 1990, the final year of Old Comiskey Park. In 1991 –- the first year of New Comiskey Park –- Torborg’s Sox went 87-75 while playing in front of a franchise record 2,934,154 fans on the South Side.

 

2005: Despite operating on a quick turnaround, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim pinned a 3-2 loss on the White Sox before 40,659 at US Cellular Field in the Game 1 of the American League Championship Series. The Angels flew into Chicago in the wee hours of the morning after clinching the Division Series against the Yankees in Anaheim the night before. Paul Byrd kept the Sox off balance for six innings before giving way to Scot Shields and Francisco Rodriguez, who combined for three scoreless innings. The Angels jumped to a 3-0 lead after 2.5 innings off Jose Contreras, who did not pitch poorly (8.1IP, 7H, 3ER, 0BB, 4SO). The Sox got one back in the third on a Joe Crede homer and another in the fourth on A.J. Pierzynski’s RBI. From there, the Sox managed just two hits in absorbing their first postseason loss of the season. It would also turn out to be the Sox final postseason loss of the year.