THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: OCTOBER 12TH/AJ steals 1st!

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THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: OCTOBER 12TH

 

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1906: The White Sox were limited to two hits by Mordecai Brown in dropping Game 4 of the 1906 World Series 1-0 at South Side Park. The Cubs made a run off Nick Altrock in the seventh stand up in tying the Series at 2-2. Eddie Hahn’s seventh inning single and Patsy Dougherty’s eighth inning single were the Sox only hits.

 

1966: The White Sox acquired knuckleballer Wilbur Wood from Columbus, a Pittsburgh Pirate farm team, for a player to be named later. Wood went on to become an effective reliever before emerging as one of the most durable starters in the Majors in the early 1970s. The Pirates received veteran left-hander Juan Pizarro to complete the deal on Nov. 28.

 

1993: The Toronto Blue Jays clinched the pennant by defeating the White Sox 6-3 in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series before 45,527 at Comiskey Park. Series MVP Dave Stewart outdueled Alex Fernandez. Stewart, a Sox nemesis with Oakland in the early 1990s, held the White Sox to two runs in 7.1 innings. Fernandez suffered through his second tough-luck loss of the series. He gave up two earned runs in seven innings to finish the LCS with a more-than-respectable 1.80 ERA. Toronto took the lead with two in the second on a two-run single by Pat Borders. An inning later, the Sox tied the game on a bases-loaded walk by Frank Thomas and an RBI force out by Robin Ventura. Toronto took the lead for good in the fourth on Joey Cora’s error. The Blue Jays sealed the deal with three in the ninth on a Devon White homer and a two-run triple by Paul Molitor. The Sox scored a run in the ninth on Warren Newson’s leadoff home run but could get no closer.

 

2005: A.J. Pierzynski’s “steal” of first base led to the winning run as the White Sox pulled even with the Angels in the American League Championship Series with a 2-1 victory in Game 2 before 41,013 at US Cellular Field. With two out and the game tied in the ninth, Pierzynski struck out on a ball in the dirt. As Angel catcher Josh Paul rolled the ball to the mound with his teammates running to the dugout, Pierzynski took off for first, claiming strike three was not fielded cleanly. Following an extensive discussion among the umpires and protestation by Angel manager Mike Scioscia, Pierzynski was awarded first base. The Angel argument that plate umpire Doug Eddings signaled strike three or that the ball was fielded cleanly for an inning-ending strikeout went nowhere. Replays do show that there was the possibility that the ball did not land in Paul’s glove on the fly. Pierzynski was lifted for pinch-runner Pablo Ozuna, who stole second and scored on Joe Crede’s double off the wall giving the Sox their first walkoff win in postseason history. The controversial ending made a winner out of Mark Buehrle, who was brilliant. He gave up five hits and struck out four in posting the Sox first post-season complete game since Wilson Alvarez’s effort in Game 3 of the 1993 American League Championship Series in Toronto. Buehrle fashioned the Sox first home postseason complete game since Ed Cicotte lost Game 4 of the ill-fated 1919 World Series at Comiskey Park. Buehrle turned in the Sox first postseason complete game victory at home since Red Faber beat the Giants in Game 2 of the 1917 World Series. Buehrle’s lone mistake was a fifth-inning gopher ball to Robb Quinlan. That blast negated the lead the Sox took in the first when Scott Podsednik reached second on an error, took third on Tadahito Iguchi’s sacrifice and scored on Jermaine Dye’s ground out.

 

 

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Game two of the ALCS was the single greatest sporting event I have ever been too.