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1962<\/strong>
\nThe final piece of the Billy Pierce<\/strong>–Eddie Fisher<\/strong> trade (involving six total players) was named, as San Francisco sent pitcher Verle Tiefenthaler <\/strong>to the White Sox.<\/p>\n

Tiefenthaler would pitch in just three games for the White Sox, making his major league debut on August 19 and getting rocked for two earned in two-thirds of an inning. His other two games went just as badly, and he ended with a 9.82 ERA kept him from ever seeing the majors again.<\/p>\n

Tiefenthaler\u2019s acquisition is most notable in that only 14 players in White Sox history pitched as many as the 3 2\u20443 innings he did with the team and amassed less than his -0.2 WAR.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong>
\nIn a 12-7 win at Milwaukee, Carlton Fisk<\/strong> tied an American League record when he was intentionally walked three times by Brewers pitchers. Fisk was given a free pass in the second, eighth and ninth innings of the game. Officially on the day, Fisk went 1-for-2 with two RBIs.<\/p>\n

1986<\/strong>
\nFuture Hall-of-Famer Steve Carlton<\/strong>, picked up on waivers by the White Sox on August 12, won his second career American League game and his 320th overall. \u201cLefty\u201d allowed four runs over 7 1\u20443 innings in a 7-4 win over the Brewers in Chicago. In 10 games at the end of 1986, Carlton ended up with four wins, a 3.69 ERA and 40 strikeouts in 63 innings before being released at season\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

Carlton threw to Ron Karkovice<\/strong>, who was making his major league debut.<\/p>\n

1990<\/strong>
\nIn a doubleheader nightcap at Texas, Carlton Fisk <\/strong>became baseball\u2019s all-time home run leader as a catcher (328), as he nailed a Charlie Hough<\/strong> offering and drove it into the left-center field seats. The White Sox won, 4-2. (Hough become a teammate of Fisk on the White Sox in 1991.)<\/p>\n

This was a record-smashing home run, because it did more than break the all-time mark for catchers. The long ball also was Fisk\u2019s 187th with the White Sox, which made him the club\u2019s all-time home run leader.<\/p>\n

That team record would be passed by Frank Thomas<\/strong>, and Fisk\u2019s record for catchers would eventually be broken by Mike Piazza.<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong>
\nIn a 5-3 loss to the Orioles, James Baldwin <\/strong>joined 14 other pitchers in tying an American League record with four hit batsmen. Ironically, Baldwin had plunked only two batters in his first 154 innings pitched in 2000!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to say now whether there was intent, but Baldwin walked just two batters in 5 1\u20443 innings.<\/p>\n

With no score in the third, Baldwin pegged Jerry Hairston and Melvin Mora on back-to-back pitches<\/em> to load the bases \u2014 a jam the righty escaped with a double-play ball.<\/p>\n

Then in the fifth, with a 1-0 lead, Baldwin opened the inning giving up a first-pitch double and single before avoiding a third straight first-pitch hit by hitting Hairston on the knee for a second HBP \u2014 on the first pitch of the at-bat.<\/p>\n

In the sixth, trailing 2-1, Baldwin gave up a leadoff home run and a single before ploinking Mark Lewis on the hiney. After a sac bunt and walk to load the bases, Hairston got his revenge for the two bruises by working a long at-bat and hitting a full-count single to drive in two runs, chasing Baldwin from the game.<\/p>\n

Baldwin narrowly missed setting the all-time record, as Mora ducked to avoid a pitch at his head while squaring to bunt in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t get irritated, though he hit me in a pretty good spot in the kneecap the second time. That hurt a little bit,\u201d Hairston told the Baltimore Sun postgame. \u201cStuff like that sometimes wakes you up, and you really want to get the guy. I know he wasn\u2019t trying to do it on purpose, but those little things get you going.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was Baldwin\u2019s first loss since July 8.<\/p>\n

2004<\/strong>
\nDid you know that Harold Baines <\/strong>managed the White Sox for four games? A game on this day, an 11-8 loss to the Tigers, began the White Sox legend\u2019s 1-3 run at the helm.<\/p>\n

On August 9, manager Ozzie Guill\u00e9n <\/strong>was suspended for his actions during an argument with umpire Hunter Wendelstedt over Carlos Lee <\/strong>(incorrectly) being called out at second base on a steal attempt during Chicago\u2019s 13-11 loss to Cleveland. Later, Guill\u00e9n called Wendelstedt a \u201cliar\u201d for the umpire\u2019s account of the argument, which earned him another two games. Baines, as Ozzie\u2019s bench coach when he took the White Sox managing job for the 2004 season, assumed managerial duties in his absence.<\/p>\n

2006<\/strong>
\nFor the first time in MLB history, four leadoff home runs started the first two innings of a game, one that ended with host Chicago beating the Royals, 5-4.<\/p>\n

David DeJesus hit the first pitch of the game off of Mark Buehrle<\/strong> into the seats, putting K.C. up, 1-0. Pablo Ozuna <\/strong>returned the favor in the bottom half, hitting a 1-1 pitch from Odalis Perez out of the park.<\/p>\n

The two teams duplicated the effort in the second inning, with Emil Brown taking Buehrle deep to lead off the Royals half, and Jermaine Dye <\/strong>doing same in the bottom.<\/p>\n

In the third, Jim Thome <\/strong>gave the White Sox the lead for good, grounding out to score Sandy Alomar Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The win pushed Chicago 30 games better than K.C., at 72-48.<\/p>\n

2020<\/strong>
\nSometimes strange things happen on a baseball field. On August 12 in Detroit, Tim Anderson <\/strong>and Eloy Jim\u00e9nez<\/strong> opened with home runs off of southpaw Matthew Boyd, and on this night at Guaranteed Rate Field, Anderson and Yo\u00e1n Moncada<\/strong> accomplished the feat on consecutive pitches from Boyd in the first.<\/p>\n

According to STATS, Inc., the White Sox were the first team in Major League Baseball history to hit back-to-back home runs to lead off the game twice, off of the same pitcher, in the same season. They\u2019d go on to win this game, 7-2.<\/p>\n

Oh, and Anderson was on quite a leadoff home run roll \u2014 he would lead off the game on August 18 with a homer as well!<\/p>\n

2024<\/strong>
\nA 6-1 loss to Houston dropped the White Sox to 30-94 \u2014 and out of playoff contention.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of ways to describe the horror of 2024, and that is yet another one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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