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Today in White Sox History: July 13

Thanks, Cubs!

Minnesota Twins v Chicago White Sox
Haunting a crosstown club near you: Eloy Jiménez
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1919

You don’t see this every day: In a 14-9 win over Boston, three White Sox players scored on a routine single off the bat of Buck Weaver.


1954

The White Sox had a total of nine representatives for the American League in the All-Star Game. It was played in Cleveland, and the AL won a slugfest, 11-9, thanks to Nellie Fox, who drove in the winning runs on a single in the eighth inning off Brooklyn’s Carl Erskine. The nine players are the franchise record.

In addition to Fox (2B) the Sox had Minnie Miñoso (OF), Chico Carrasquel (SS), Sandy Consuegra (P), Bob Keegan (P), Sherm Lollar (C), Virgil Trucks(P), George Kell (3B) and Ferris Fain (1B) on the team. Kell and Fain weren’t able to play because of injuries.

In addition to Fox’s performance, Miñoso had two hits and Trucks got the save pitching the ninth inning.

That year, the White Sox would go 94-60-1 and finish in third place.


1961

The White Sox battery of Sherm Lollar and Frank Baumann became only the third such duo to hit back-to-back home runs in a game. They connected off the Yankees’ Bill Stafford in the fifth inning of a 6-2 loss at Comiskey Park.


1964

In an effort to stay in the pennant race, White Sox GM Ed Short acquired Chicago native Bill “Moose” Skowron from the Senators for Joe Cunningham and Frank Kreutzer. Moose would play well for the Sox in the next few seasons and make the All-Star Team in 1965. In 73 games in 1964, he hit .293


1993

White Sox ace “Black” Jack McDowell was the winning pitcher as the American League beat the National League, 9-3, in the All-Star Game at Camden Yards, Baltimore. McDowell pitched a scoreless inning. He’d go on to become the league’s Cy Young winner later that year.

Frank Thomas (1B) joined him on the A.L. team.


2017

The rebuilding of the White Sox continued, as they shipped lefthander José Quintana to the crosstown Cubs in return for four prospects, including top hitting prospect Eloy Jiménez and pitching prospect Dylan Cease. Quintana was a solid, stable pitcher for the Sox, one of the most reliable in baseball, who made the All-Star team in 2016. He never had a lot of luck, however, as he garnered more 60 no-decisions in his five-plus seasons on the team.