{"id":319642,"date":"2025-09-16T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/319642\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:08:11","slug":"today-in-white-sox-history-september-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/319642\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in White Sox History: September 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

1904
Smack in the middle of an amazing, 45-inning scoreless streak, Doc White painted a masterpiece: a 1-0, one-hitter over the St. Louis Browns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Without play-by-play data it\u2019s hard to know how these games played out 120 years ago. But we do know that the one hit White allowed was a Tom Jones triple, so whether in the first or ninth inning, or with none out or two, that hit put the shutout and win in some jeopardy.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

Likewise, White\u2019s scoreless streak is commonly regarded as 45 innings, but even basic research would place it at 45 1\u20443 innings, minimum. The streak was snapped on October 2 in a 7-1, complete-game win for White against the Yankees<\/a> \u2014 but yes, the run came in the first inning and could conceivably been scored with none out. However, before the streak of complete-game shutouts began White finished up a complete-game win on September 9, 5-3 over Cleveland; while the Napoleons did score in the ninth, White must have retired at least his final batter in order to end the game.<\/p>\n

1916
It was a dead heat among three teams (Tigers, White Sox, Red Sox) for the AL pennant, and with a 6-4 win over Boston in the opener of a series at Comiskey Park, the White Sox leapfrogged the Red Sox in the standings and stood just a half-game behind first-place Detroit.<\/p>\n

However, the Carmines would win the next two games and take the series, sending the White Sox back to third place. Boston was getting hot, though, and would make a push to take the pennant, while Detroit dropped to third. The White Sox would win eight of 13 to finish the season, but that would only be good for second, 2 1\/2 games behind the Red Sox.<\/p>\n

The 1917 season, of course, would be another story \u2026<\/p>\n

1992
The White Sox<\/a> hit the Bronx with a barrage of 18 hits in a 9-6 win over the Yankees<\/a>. Frank Thomas went 5-for-5, for his only five-hit game in the majors. For such a prodigious slugger, the five hits \u2014 three singles, two doubles \u2014 were modest. Thomas ended up leading the major leagues with 46 doubles in 1992.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

The White Sox improved to 78-67, and while 10 1\u20442 games out of first were still battling the Minnesota Twins<\/a> for second place in the AL West.<\/p>\n

2007
White Sox<\/a> slugger\u00a0Jim Thome\u00a0joined an exclusive club when he hammered his 500th\u00a0career home run, a two-run shot with a full count in the ninth inning of a White Sox 9-7 win over the Angels at U.S. Cellular Field.\u00a0Thome\u00a0was playing in his 2,000th\u00a0career game when he connected off Dustin Moseley for the win.<\/p>\n

The Sox trailed, 7-1, at one point before coming back. It was the first time that the 500th\u00a0home run for a player was a walk-off winner.\u00a0Jim\u00a0would hit 134 home runs in a White Sox uniform.<\/p>\n

Thome became the third player to reach 500 home runs in 2007, after Frank Thomas and \u00c1lex Rodr\u00edguez. The baseball was sent to the Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1904 Smack in the middle of an amazing, 45-inning scoreless streak, Doc White painted a masterpiece: a 1-0,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[1691,5,141,138,49,2561,135,147,13410,47549,10412,60,4,1086,89,12466,10346,396,2562,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-319642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-alex-rodriguez","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-white-sox","13":"tag-chicagowhitesox","14":"tag-cleveland","15":"tag-detroit","16":"tag-doc-white","17":"tag-eddie-murphy","18":"tag-frank-thomas","19":"tag-minnesota-twins","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-ninth-inning","22":"tag-red-sox","23":"tag-scoreless-streak","24":"tag-shoeless-joe-jackson","25":"tag-white-sox","26":"tag-whitesox","27":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115214608352523890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}