TODAY IN SOX HISTORY: JUNE 12

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DERAILING THE BIG TRAIN

1920: Buck Weaver’s game-ending single off Walter Johnson delivered the White Sox a 9-8 win over Washington at Comiskey Park. Two batters earlier, Nemo Leibold tied the game with a sacrifice fly.

 

MR. LEE … WOW!

1945: Thornton Lee fanned 13 batters in a 1-0 win over Cleveland at Comiskey Park. The K total was the sixth-highest output in franchise history and were the most by a Sox pitcher since Red Faber whiffed 13 Athletics May 17, 1922. Bill Nagel drove in Roy Schalk with one out in the ninth to make Lee a winner.

 

KAAT WINS IN 123 MINUTES

1975: Jim Kaat went the distance in a snappy 2 hour and 3 minutes in the White Sox 9-2 win over Boston before 5,944 at Comiskey Park. Kaat gave up 11 hits and one walk with three strikeouts in improving to 9-3.

 

THE CHET LEMON SHOW

1977: Chet Lemon scored the winning run on a wild pitch in the 11th inning in the White Sox 6-4 victory at Baltimore. After tying the game in the sixth with a two-run homer, Lemon Led off the 11th with a walk, stole second and took third on an error before scoring. Lerrin LaGrow got the win but it was Bart Johnson who was the bullpen’s savior. Johnson tossed 4.1 innings of scoreless relief with five strikeouts while the “Hitmen” climbed back into the game.

 

THE SON ALSO PITCHES

1985: Bruce Tanner, son of the former White Sox manager, posted his first and only big league victory in a 6-3 win at Seattle. The right-hander pitched into the seventh and gave up two earned on seven hits with two walks and three strikeouts.

 

GOOD WITH THE BAT, TOO

1999: Mike Sirotka had two hits, scored a run and pitched 7.2 shuout innings for the win in the White Sox 8-2 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Frank Thomas and Mark Johnson homered as part of an 18-hit attack. Ray Durham went 4-for-6 with a double and two runs in support of Sirotka, who became the the first Sox pitcher in interleague play to log a multi-hit game.

 

A-ROW TOPS T-HOFF

2005: Aaron Rowand’s three-run homer in the 10th off Trevor Hoffman delivered the White Sox an 8-5 win at San Diego. The Sox tied the game with two in the eighth and Rowand’s homer made a winner out of Cliff Politte, who fashioned two perfect innings of relief.

 

PAULIE BESTS CUBS

2010: Paul Konerko drove in both runs in the White Sox 2-1 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Mark Buehrle pitched 6.2 shutout innings for the win as the White Sox survived a rough ninth from Bobby Jenks, who earned his 11th save, to win their fourth in a row. Konerko drove in runs in the first and the seventh.

 

Some of these are displayed on the LF board during games at the Cell as the White Sox Almanac