1918
Lefty Williams followed teammate Joe Jackson and batterymate Byrd Lynn by leaving the White Sox and going to work in the Navy shipyards in Chicago. Williams\u2019 status had been adjusted to make him eligible for the military draft, and volunteering for domestic service in the war effort was a way to avoid being shipped overseas.<\/p>\n
For his part, owner Charles Comiskey was furious with all three players, questioning their patriotism. In fact, Comiskey withheld Williams\u2019 paycheck for June ($183) and suspended all three players. All this in spite of the writing on the wall, that MLB would end up playing a truncated season in light of World War I.<\/p>\n
The southpaw would be welcomed back, along with Jackson, for the ill-fated 1919 season, by far Williams\u2019 best in the majors.<\/p>\n
1937
Zeke Bonura Day at Comiskey Park saw the slugger drive in five runs with a homer, two doubles and a single in a 14-8 win over Washington. Pregame, Bonura received a car.<\/p>\n
Bonura made his mark in just four seasons with the White Sox<\/a>, logging 15.7 WAR and putting up a .914 OPS and 128 OPS+. Twice he finished in the Top 20 of MVP voting.<\/p>\n Right before the 1938 season, Bonura was traded to the Senators to get Joe Kuhel, in a swap of first basemen. Kuhel\u2019s White Sox career was good, though not to Bonura\u2019s standard; however, Bonura suffered outside of Comiskey Park, playing just three more seasons and tallying a mere 5.8 WAR before dropping into the minors for a year, then entering military service.<\/p>\n 1939 1959 1961 Chicago\u2019s only loss in the run came on June 16, hosting Minnesota. The streak included wins against Baltimore (two), the Angels (five), the Twins (three), Cleveland (three), Washington (four) and Detroit (two). The streak record was 4-0 on the road, 15-1 at home, thus making the 15 wins in 16 games the best homestand of 10+ games in White Sox history.<\/p>\n The streak saw the White Sox shave eight games off of their pennant deficit and shoot up to fourth place in the league, at 38-34. The club would never improve on that standing, however, finishing the season at 86-76 and in fourth.<\/p>\n 1965 Then the South Siders won the second game, 5-4 in 10 innings, on a home run by Don Buford.<\/p>\n The Sox went 95-67 in 1965 to finish in second place, seven games behind the Twins.<\/p>\n 1967 True to the nature of Chicago\u2019s light-hitting ways, the South Siders won the opener, 2-1, and the nightcap, 3-2. In the opener, Wayne Causey\u2019s fourth inning RBI single held up as the game-winner. In the nightcap, Jerry McNertney\u2019s three-run homer in the fourth inning held up was the game-winner, as Wilbur Wood (hold) and Bob Locker (save) held off a Yankees<\/a> rally in the ninth. Wood pitched in both games (recording three outs total), and both saves in the doubleheader were of the one-out variety (Wood in the opener, Locker in the nightcap). That\u2019s some novel closer usage, Eddie Stanky.<\/p>\n Think the White Sox boasted strong pitching in 1967? None of the five pitchers who threw in the doubleheader had an ERA worse than 2.88, and in fact four had sub-2.00 ERAs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1918 Lefty Williams followed teammate Joe Jackson and batterymate Byrd Lynn by leaving the White Sox and going…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[172272,363,99],"class_list":["post-698164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-chicago-white-sox-history","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
White Sox<\/a> pitcher Ted Lyons began his streak of 41 consecutive innings pitched without issuing a walk. The streak would last through his game on June 23, when he walked New York\u2019s Frank Crosetti to lead off the game. In 172 innings pitched in 1939, Lyons would only walk 27 hitters \u2014 one intentionally.<\/p>\n
It was the fourth and last one-hitter in Billy Pierce\u2019s White Sox career. On this date he beat the Senators, 3-1. Shortstop Ron Samford\u2019s double to left leading off the third inning was Washington\u2019s only safety. Billy struck out six in the contest, but wasn\u2019t guaranteed a win until the Sox scored a pair of runs in the top of the ninth inning.<\/p>\n
The White Sox, at 19-33, just eight days removed from escaping a brief stay in the basement of the American League (on June 3) and still mired in eighth, 15 1\u20442 games out, started a run of 19 wins in 20 games. The first victory came in the nightcap of a doubleheader split, a 7-1 at Baltimore. The White Sox would not suffer a losing streak again until June 29.<\/p>\n
In Washington, in the first game of a doubleheader, the Sox beat the Senators, 5-2, to collect the franchise\u2019s 5,000th win. Juan Pizarro got the victory, with Eddie Fisher picking up the save. Pete Ward knocked in two runs to lead the Sox offense.<\/p>\n
In front of 62,582 fans at Yankee Stadium, the White Sox swept a doubleheader and into first place, where they would remain until August 13. The White Sox had spent 19 days in first place during the first two months of the season, but this sweep began a stretch of more than two straight months on top of the American League.<\/p>\n