{"id":712875,"date":"2026-05-30T16:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/712875\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T16:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:06:15","slug":"today-in-white-sox-history-may-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/712875\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in White Sox History: May 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

1914
Leading off a doubleheader opener at Cleveland<\/a>, Buck Weaver clocked the first leadoff home run in White Sox history, a deep blast to left field against Naps starter Willie Mitchell. It spurred the White Sox to a 6-3 win and supported Eddie Cicotte in his fourth win of the season.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Weaver hit just 21 career home runs in the majors \u2014 and in two weeks, would also became the first player with a leadoff home run in Comiskey Park history, just two weeks later.<\/p>\n

1951
In front of 34,856 fans packing Comiskey Park for a Wednesday doubleheader, the White Sox<\/a> swept the St. Louis Browns<\/a>, 5-2 and 8-1, to win their 13th and 14th consecutive games. It\u2019s the second longest winning streak in franchise history. To commemorate the streak \u2014 which ran the team\u2019s record to 26-9 and put it in first place in the AL by two games \u2014 Chicago mayor Martin Kennelly presented vice president\u00a0Chuck Comiskey, manager\u00a0Paul\u00a0Richards\u00a0and the White Sox the keys to the city in a ceremony.<\/p>\n

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The Sox would go from \u201cRags to\u00a0Richards\u201d\u00a0in 1951, ending their string of desultory seasons and pointing the way to the \u201cGo-Go\u201d 1950\u2019s. The White Sox would end the year 81-73-1, good for fourth place and their first winning season since 1943.<\/p>\n

1960
Outfielder\u00a0Jimmy\u00a0Piersall, who would later broadcast White Sox games and coach the club\u2019s outfielders in the late 1970s and early 1980s, went on a rampage against the scoreboard and Comiskey Park during a doubleheader.<\/p>\n

In the opener, Piersall\u00a0was on second base and felt home-plate umpire Cal Drummond made a bad strike call on a Cleveland hitter at the plate. Drummond tossed him \u2014 so Piersall tossed the contents of the Cleveland dugout on to the field. He then went into the Sox dugout, grabbed a bucket of groundskeeper\u00a0Gene\u00a0Bossard\u2019s\u00a0sand and dumped that on the field.<\/p>\n

In the nightcap,\u00a0Piersall\u00a0didn\u2019t move when a ball hit by\u00a0Minnie\u00a0Mi\u00f1oso\u00a0came right at him. It went over his head for a double, and adding insult to injury the White Sox stadium operations thought it was a home run and set off the scoreboard! As a result,\u00a0when Piersall\u00a0caught the final out of the game, he took the ball and threw it at the scoreboard (which he hated).<\/p>\n

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All in a day\u2019s work, as Cleveland took the twin bill, 4-1 and 9-4.<\/p>\n

1966
White Sox pitcher\u00a0Jack Lamabe\u00a0fired a one-hitter at Comiskey Park, beating the Red Sox<\/a>, 11-0.\u00a0Lamabe\u00a0didn\u2019t allow a hit until Joe Foy singled leading off the eighth inning \u2014 after Lamabe shook off catcher\u00a0J.C. Martin. Lamabe faced 30 batters, striking out six and walking two.<\/p>\n

It was a sweep on the night for the White Sox, who shut out Boston<\/a> in both games of a doubleheader. Chicago<\/a> had won the opener, 1-0, behind pitcher\u00a0Johnny\u00a0Buzhardt\u2019s five-hitter.<\/p>\n

In addition, this was the club\u2019s third consecutive shutout, as the day before,\u00a0Tommy\u00a0John\u00a0blanked the Yankees<\/a>, 2-0.<\/p>\n

1985
In a night game at Comiskey Park,\u00a0Carlton\u00a0Fisk\u00a0belted a rooftop home run off of Kansas City<\/a>\u2019s Charlie Leibrandt. It helped\u00a0Tom\u00a0Seaver\u00a0and the White Sox win, 4-3. It was the start of a four-game sweep of the Royals, and a week in which\u00a0Fisk would hit five home runs and drive in 12. That season,\u00a0Carlton\u00a0would set career highs with 37 home runs and 107 RBIs.<\/p>\n

1989
Exactly four years later, Dan Pasqua drove a ball 495 feet the other way against southpaw Frank Tanana, landing it on the left-field roof. It was the only roof shot of Pasqua\u2019s career, and the 21st-ever by a White Sox player.<\/p>\n

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The blast, with the White Sox down, 6-2, in the bottom of the seventh, failed to turn the fortunes of the game \u2014 an eventual 10-3 loss dropped them to 18-32. Chicago was in the midst of losing 15 of 17 games, a stretch that would lock them in the AL West basement for the rest of 1989.<\/p>\n

1993
In an era where complete games were becoming more and more rare, Jack McDowell thumbed his nose at the trend and completed his fourth straight game for Chicago, a 6-3 loss at Yankee Stadium. Despite a 2.83 ERA in the stretch, McDowell went 1-3 during his streak, losing its last three games by giving up 11 runs in those losses. He \u201ccouldn\u2019t\u201d really lose the first complete game of the streak, back on May 14 at Texas<\/a>, having thrown a 4-0 shutout.<\/p>\n

Despite the anomaly of losing these complete games in May, McDowell was the ace of the AL West-winning 1993 White Sox and won the Cy Young at season\u2019s end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1914 Leading off a doubleheader opener at Cleveland, Buck Weaver clocked the first leadoff home run in White…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,141,10909,89336,138,17995,135,4196,1550,8861,2123,4,89,1567,396,142],"class_list":["post-712875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-boston","tag-buck-weaver","tag-cal-drummond","tag-chicago","tag-chuck-comiskey","tag-cleveland","tag-comiskey-park","tag-doubleheader","tag-jimmy-piersall","tag-kansas-city","tag-mlb","tag-red-sox","tag-texas","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116664387741579085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712875","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=712875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}