Today in the history of White Sox: August 6

Today in the history of White Sox: August 6

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1936
Twelve years before he breaks a Major-League record (see below), Luke Appling Started a 27-game hit streak with a 2-out-5 match in a 9-6 victory over St. Louis in a Double Header opener. Appling went 1-out-3 in a sleeping cap victory on the BrownAnd would not stop the rest of August.

Appling’s line was broken on 3 September in a 3-2 victory in Boston. He hit 0-2 with two walks in the game, and was on the deck hoping for another shot to expand the streak when Mule Haas Flew to midfield to end the ninth White Sox.

During the streak, Appling .350, with 35 hits in 27 games and 18 walks against four KS. Amazing, the hit streak reduced The seasonal average of Appling from .376 to .370. Appling would end 1936 with a Batting title, which had reached a career-best .388. Appling would be hitless in only five games in September, while he pushed his stroke average with 18 points.

The hit streak of Appling was the White SOX record for 61 years, to Albert Belle Tied it in 1997. Seven years later, Carlos Lee Appling and Belle darkened by one competition to establish the record of all time on the south side.

1949
Luke Appling Played his 2,154th game on ShortStop, for the most Rabbit Maranville could pass in MLB history. He would play another 42 games there in the 1949 and 20 season in 1950 (at the age of 43) before he retired. Appling played one after all seasons (1948) as a primary short stop, and 94% of his career regions there.

Today, Appling is in eighth place in games played on shortstop, his record of all time, 20 years later broken by another White Sox Shortstop, Luis AparicioOn September 25, 1970, his last game played that season. Interestingly, that not only marked the last game that Aparicio played that season, it was the last game that Aparicio ever played for the White Sox.

1955
From September 11, 1953 to September 4, 1960, Nellie Fox played 1,073 straight matches, this, an 8-1 loss in Baltimore. Manager Marty Marion felt that his team, losers of three consecutive games, but still for the first time in the already was tied, what rest needed – and in this game Fox got it. So, Nellie would have had a series of 1,073 on the way to 1960; And with the momentum of a streak like it drives him, chances are that Fox would have muscular through the virus that he had kept him out of that game of 1960 and kept it alive. Worse (for both men), the spicy, frustrated fox sat on the couch next to him, Marion Crive, and the manager promised to never make that mistake again.

Jim Margalus wrote more detailed about Nellie’s broken streak for South Side Sox in 2012.

1959
It was the third and last marathon match of the 1959 season.

The White Sox fought against the Orioles in Baltimore and played 18 innings for midnight evening clock stopped the night match at 1-1. (Yes, it only took four hours to play 18 innings!)

There were two incredible versions on the hill of the pitcher. For Baltimore, Hoyt Wilhelm Billy O’Dell relieved to start the ninth inning and held the White Sox Hitless for 8 2 Xatchs, to Billy Goodman hit a single with two in the 17th. Meanwhile White Sox Starter Billy Pierce Went 16 inningsAllowing only one run and recording a 100 -game score before you are allowed by it Turk Lown In the 17th.

Billy faced 61 batters, threw seven and stood up 11 hits, 10 of them singles. The 100 game score is the eighth highest in the history of White Sox.

The 18 innings are still bound for the 10th longest match in Team Annals.

2010
The first member of the 2O1O draft class to reach the Majors (yes, only two months after he was drawn up in general No. 13) Chris Sale Made his debut in a 2-1, 10-year-old loss in Baltimore. It was an unobtrusive start, with a walk from four pitch to Brian Roberts and then a full-count, Jam-shot single from Nick Markakis. Only seven throws and no outs – but the start of an illustrious career.

The 6’5 ”, 170 pound Lefty only spent 11 games in the minors, burning by High-a Winston-Salem (placed there to work with Dash Pitching Coach Bobby Thigpen) and Triple-a Charlotte for the melody of a 2.61 ERA, 1.16 Whip and 16.5 k/9. (In Charlotte alone, the sale wore an astronomical 21.3 k/9.)

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