1901
In the aftermath of the assassination of and funeral for President William McKinley, the White Sox game at Baltimore — and all games in Major League Baseball — was postponed. The White Sox remained 81-48 and atop the AL, on the verge of clinching the pennant. (In fact, the clinch would come in just two days.)

1925
The White Sox set the franchise record (tied in 1987) for the largest shutout margin in team history when they blanked the Senators, 17-0, at Washington. The game was the back half of a twin bill. Ted Lyons threw a one-hitter, losing his no-hitter with two outs in the ninth inning on a bloop single by Bobby Veach over the head of first baseman Earl Sheely.

Sheely led the offense, going 4-for-6 with four RBIs and two runs. The Sox had a seven-run second inning and an eight-run fifth inning.

1932
While it’s again become commonplace with White Sox teams of recent vintage, with a 9-6 loss at Comiskey Park to the Athletics the White Sox lost their 100th game in a season for the first time, dropping to 46-100.

Red Faber (at this stage in his career a reliever) came back on no days’ rest to throw six innings in this runaway loss.

Finishing 49-102-1 in 1932 yielded a .325 winning percentage, second-worst in White Sox history behind the 2024 club. Five other times since, the White Sox have lost 100 or more: 1970 (106), 1948 (101), 2018 (100), 2023 (101) and 2024 (121).

By winning percentage (not losses, given 154-game seasons), the stretch of 1931-34 contains three of the seven worst White Sox seasons ever.

1972
It was one of the wildest games the White Sox ever played. Facing the A’s in Oakland and with hopes of a division title slim, Chicago beat Oakland, 8-7, in 15 innings. The game took almost five hours to play.

The Sox couldn’t hold leads of 5-3 in the ninth inning or 7-5 in the 13th, but wound up winning on a Jorge Orta home run. Rich Gossage, the last of seven pitchers on the night, got the win.

At the time, a major league record 51 players were used in the game, 21 by the White Sox and 30 by the A’s.

Even with the victory, the White Sox climbed to only four games of the A’s with 12 left to play — and this stirring win was offset by a 6-3 loss the next day that all but killed Chicago’s hopes.

1986
White Sox pitcher Joe Cowley made the record books by holding the Angels hitless in Anaheim, 7-1. It was an unusual no-hitter: Cowley walked seven, including three straight in the sixth inning, when California got its run. He also struck out eight and threw a total of 138 pitches. It was only the 12th time in big league history a club got no-hit, but scored a run.

Ron Karkovice, who had been in the majors for just a month, caught the no-hitter — and also homered in the game.

Ironically, this no-hitter would be Cowley’s final win in the big leagues, as he lost his final two starts in 1986, was traded to the Phillies where he went 0-4 and was demoted to Triple-A Maine, and then retired.

2009
Jake Peavy won his debut with the White Sox, 13-3 over the Royals, with five innings of three-run ball. Great, right? Well … out of deference to the White Sox and their fans, the superstar wanted to get back on the field despite a severe ankle injury (from June, with the White Sox striking the blockbuster trade for Peavy while the hurler was hurt). Although he would win all three starts in September and post a glistening 1.35 ERA, pitching through the injury forced Peavy to rely too much on his upper body, getting his mechanics out of whack.

As a result, at least an indirect result, the stage was set for Peavy’s drastic injury in May 2010, the unprecedented, complete tear of his latissimus dorsi tendon and muscle — an injury that would end his year after 17 starts.

2010
In a 9-7 loss to the Detroit Tigers in 11 innings, the White Sox left 21 runners on base, tied for third-most in franchise history.

It was a wild game, with the White Sox jumping out to a 2-0 lead in the first and holding the advantage until the seventh-inning stretch, before which Detroit put a six on the board on a tiring John Danks. The White Sox rallied for four chippy runs in the bottom of the ninth (two RBI singles, Alexei Ramírez beating out a double-play grounder to score another, and finally a wild pitch bringing Alejandro De Aza home with the tying run), but with the sacks packed A.J. Pierzynski hit a weak tapper to short that forced extra innings.

Down 9-7 in the bottom of the 11th, the White Sox loaded the bases with two outs, but Manny Ramírez struck out looking to end the game and drop the White Sox to 79-70.

In only the eighth inning did the White Sox avoid leaving runners on base, while two men were left on in each of the first six innings, and the sacks were left packed in the ninth and 11th.