Today in White Sox History: September 19

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.

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1932

While it’s again become commonplace with the 2018 and probable 2023 teams, 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, worst in White Sox history by 1 1⁄2 games (1948). Three other times since, the White Sox have lost 100 or more: 1970 (106), 1948 (101) and 2018 (100).

By winning percentage (in 154-game seasons), the stretch of 1931-34 contains three of the five worst White Sox seasons ever.

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1972

It was one of the wildest games the White Sox ever played. Facing the A’s in Oakland and fighting to stay alive in the pennant race, 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.

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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.

Ironically, this no-hitter would be Cowley’s last 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.

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