Baseball Historians

.!. As 2008 winds down, I’m still waiting for the White Sox to bring in some talent as opposed to giving it away.  It’s only been a couple of months since they won the division in the final days of the season and now, it looks like the Whi…

Down 0-2 in a best of five series, the Sox are in a win-or-go home situation for the rest of this series.  Luckily for the Sox they won game 3, 5-3 over the Tampa Bay Rays.  Once again John Danks came through in the clutch for the South Side Sluggers.  Danks lasted six and two-thirds [...]

The more experienced Sox knew they had a chance in the game, but Rays rookie Evan Longoria came up big and hit two home runs to power the Rays past the Sox for a 6-4 victory and a 1-0 lead in the series.  Dewayne Wise did his part in hitting a three run homer in [...]

With only one chance left to get into the post season, the Sox pulled off a great win against the Twins to be back in the running for a World Series since 2005, when they won the championship.  To have a chance to keep playing, John Danks needed to have a great game against a [...]

On the verge of a bad late season collapse, the destiny of the Sox is still very much in their hands.  With a big win against the Cleveland Indians on Sunday by a score of 5-1, the Sox still trail the Twins by a half game.  Therefore, the Sox must makeup a game against the [...]

All the White Sox had to do was not get swept by the Twins in the series and they still would have held a one-half game lead over Minnesota.  Not a tough task right?  Wrong, once again the speed of the Twins out shined the Sox.  Down 6-1, the Twins made a huge comeback to [...]

In game one of two on Tuesday night, the Sox were shut down by Blue Jays ace A.J. Burnett and lost the critical game 3-1.  Only managing two hits in the game compared with nine strikeouts, the Sox offense could not compete with the spectacular pitching of Burnett.  A good pitching performance by Javier Vazquez, [...]

As the season gets closer and closer to the end, the Sox caught a few breaks with Minnesota losing eight of their last eleven.  Luckily after dropping the first two games in the series against the Cleveland Indians, the Sox pulled out the last one by a score of 4-2 behind a home run from [...]

A lack of offensive production against the Orioles in the final game of the series led to the Sox getting routed by the club from Baltimore.  Giving up sixteen hits, the Sox only managed to hit safely five times in the game, only one more than their total of four strike outs.  The Sox offense [...]

Behind good production on offense and a solid pitching performance by Gavin Floyd, the Sox beat the Orioles 8-3 with one more game left in the series.  Floyd lasted for eight innings, and gave up only four hits, two earned runs, and struck out four as well.  With the win Floyd improved his record to [...]

Trying to win the last game and take the series against the defending champs, the White Sox knew they had a chance with their ace John Danks on the mound.  Danks did not disappoint, however, he was out shined by the starter on the other side of the field…Josh Beckett.  Danks lasted seven innings and [...]

With only seven hits and four strike outs in the game against the defending world champs, the Boston Red Sox, who would have thought that the Sox could squeak out a win?  Mark Buehrle is who.  Going against the Manny-less Red Sox line up, Buehrle pitched seven strong innings and gave up four hits, one [...]

An exciting walk off home run in extra innings was not out shined in game 2 against Detroit, but the Sox still won the game behind excellent defense and pitching.  John Danks had a great game going for six and two-thirds innings and only gave up four hits, one earned run, and struck out six [...]

Maybe the new distraction of Ken Griffey’s addition to the team or the big series against Detroit coming up or the fact that Minnesota is rolling through their opponents with reckless abandon; whatever it is the Sox were not focused against the Royals on Sunday and were blown out 14-3.  Not to mention five people [...]

Despite a home run from Jim Thome, Brian Anderson, Jermaine Dye, and Paul Konerko each, the Sox managed to put up seven runs on the day but gave up nine to the Kansas City Royals and went on to lose the second game of a three game series.  Luckily the Twins lost also so the [...]

Down by one run in the top of the ninth with two outs and one man on, Jermaine Dye stepped up to the plate and jacked a two run shot off of Detroit closer Todd Jones to put the Sox up 6-5.  Bobby Jenks came in the game in the bottom of the ninth and [...]

After losing the first game of a three game series to the Texas Rangers, the Sox scored 10 runs in each of the next to and went on to win both as well.  Down three runs in the bottom of the eighth, the Sox went on to score five runs to go ahead and never [...]

As the Sox battled all game long, they were set up to with the lead in the eighth inning 7-6.  But before the Sox could celebrate, Esteban German hit a go ahead double to make the score 8-7 and the Royals never looked back and took the win by that score.  Chicago had a roller [...]

In the first game back from the All-Star game the White Sox seemed rested and rejuvenated by scoring nine runs in a rout over the Kansas City Royals.  But in game two of the series, Gil Meche and the rest of the Royal pitching staff dominated the Sox and held them to only two hits [...]

In the final game before the All-Star game, the Sox and the Rangers had a good ol’ fashion slugfest in which the Sox managed twenty two hits while the Rangers hit seventeen.  Home runs by Carlos Quentin and Jermaine Dye helped to keep the Sox in the game, but they eventually fell short 11-10 despite [...]

Returning to his native Texas, John Danks pitched a great game in front of several family and friends.  Lasting for seven and two-thirds innings, Danks gave up seven hits, four earned runs, and struck out eight without giving up a single walk.  Putting his team in a great position to win, the Sox bats came [...]

Being down five runs did not rattle the cool, calm, and collected South Side Sluggers as they battled back to beat the Royals 7-6.  Carlos Quentin hit two two-run home runs to get the Sox back into the game, then all tied up the Sox got the go-ahead run without a pitch even being thrown.  [...]

A long, choppy game with many ups and downs and lead changes finally culminated in a 13th inning win by the Sox over the Kansas City Royals 8-7.  In the top of the 13th, after Alexei Ramirez singled, Orlando Cabrera hit a double into right-center field and scored Ramirez easily for the game winning run.  [...]

After being dominated by the Oakland pitching staff, the Sox offense got back into a groove and powered the club past the A’s 6-1.  Three home runs by the Sox lineup helped to put some runs on the board.  Alexei Ramirez, Brian Anderson and Nick Swisher all belted a home run for the team.  Ramirez [...]

After taking two straight series and winning seven in a row, the Sox bats have been cooled off by the Oakland A’s in the past two games.  The A’s celebrated Independence day in style by beating down the Sox 7-1.  Only managing to get six hits in the game compared with seven strike outs, is [...]

Down one going into the bottom of the tenth inning, Alexei Ramirez hit a high fly ball with two outs that barely cleared the fence to tie the game at two.  DeWayne Wise then stepped up to the plate, singled, stole second, and still with two outs Orlando Cabrera hit a single and Wise motored [...]

Nick Swisher and his two home runs, one from each side of the plate, powered the Sox past the Cleveland Indians 9-7 and to their fifth straight win.  With a grand slam in the third and a solo shot in the sixth, the Sox could not have asked for more out of their slugger.  Jim [...]

With the seats full at U.S. Cellular field, hoping for a payback series after the Cubs had just swept the Sox a week ago, the Sox got their payback and completed the sweep over the Cubs with a win on Sunday 5-1.  Powered by three home runs by Carlos Quentin, Brian Anderson, and Jim Thome, [...]

A week after getting swept by the Cubs at Wrigley field, the Sox bats came alive and got some payback as they pounded the Cubs 10-3 on the south side of Chicago.  A seven run third inning capped off by a grand slam by Nick Swisher put the Sox ahead and they never looked back.  [...]

With not one player on the White Sox roster having faced Eric Stults before, the Dodgers’ pitcher dominated the Chicago line up and earned his first complete game in the big leagues.  Only managing to get four hits throughout the game, the offense for the Sox was anemic and seemed to make it easy on [...]