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Chicago White Sox Game Notes CHICAGO WHITE SOX GAME NOTES Chicago White Sox Media Relations Department 333 W. 35th Street Chicago, IL 60616 Phone: 312-674-5300 Director: Bob Beghtol, 312-674-5303 Manager:G RayAME Garcia, 312-674-5306 N Coordinators:OTES Leni Depoister, 312-674-5300; Joe Roti, 312-674-5319 © 2014 Chicago White Sox whitesox.com orgullosox.com whitesoxpressbox.com @whitesox WHITE SOX 2014 BREAKDOWN DETROIT TIGERS (72-60) at CHICAGO WHITE SOX (60-73) Sox After 133/134 in 2013 .........56-77/56-78 Current Streak .....................................Lost 1 RHP Justin Verlander (11-11, 4.82) vs. RHP Scott Carroll (5-8, 5.05) Current Homestand ..................................1-2 Last Trip ...................................................0-3 Game #134/Home #67 Friday, August 29, 2014 Last 10 Games .........................................2-8 Series Record .................................. 15-23-4 Series First Game ................................23-19 WHITE SOX AT A GLANCE PAUL KONERKO’S FAREWELL SEASON First/Second Half....................... 45-51/15-22 The Chicago White Sox have lost eight of their last nine games Paul Konerko is playing in his 18th and fi nal season, including 16 Home/Road ............................... 32-34/28-39 and 15 of 20 as they continue a seven-game homestand tonight with the White Sox … agreed to a one-year contract on 12/4/13. Day/Night .................................. 17-30/43-43 with the opener vs. Detroit. His 16-season tenure with the White Sox is the second-longest with Opp. Above/At-Below .500 ........ 35-38/25-35 vs. RHS/LHS .............................43-54/17-19 RHP Scott Carroll starts for the White Sox, who opened the a current team behind the Yankees’ Derek Jeter (20 seasons). vs. AL East ...........................................14-17 homestand by losing two of three games to Cleveland. Ranks among the franchise leaders in virtually every offensive cate- gory … is the club leader in total bases and ranks second in home runs vs. AL Central .......................................25-29 vs. AL West ..........................................10-18 The teams will play a split doubleheader tomorrow, with the (Frank Thomas), RBI (Thomas) and games played (Luke Appling). Interleague .............................................11-9 opener a makeup game from the rainout on 6/10. The White Sox captain was part of the 2005 World Series champi- Comeback W’s/L’s After Leading .........28/36 Following this four-game series and a day off on Monday, the onship team, was named the ALCS MVP and is a six-time All-Star. Extra innings ............................................4-7 White Sox take a fi ve-game, six-day trip to Minnesota (9/2-3) and One-run/two-run games ............ 22-21/10-16 Cleveland (9/5-7). WHITE SOX VS. DETROIT TIGERS Ahead after 6/7/8................... 43-9/48-8/51-6 The White Sox have won four of the last six games to even Trailing after 6/7/8 ................. 7-53/4-56/3-61 TONIGHT’S STORYLINES Tied after 6/7/8 ........................ 10-11/8-9/5-6 the season series at 6-6. Chicago’s last six losses have come by one or two runs. Sox/opp. quality start................. 40-29/21-43 Chicago is hitting .278 (116-417) this season with a 4.54 ERA The White Sox have won four of the last six games against Sox/opp. score fi rst ................... 39-25/21-48 (53 ER/105.0 IP) and has outscored the Tigers, 58-56. Sox/opp. score 4+ ..................... 46-25/16-65 Detroit, hitting .300 (64-213) with 34 runs scored. The Sox are 24-43 since 2011, including a 14-19 mark at Sox/opp. score 3 or less.............. 14-48/44-8 Jose Abreu owns an eight-game hitting streak (.448, 13-29) U.S. Cellular Field. Average time of game ............................3:08 and is batting .408 (20-49) over his last 13 games … Abreu is The White Sox trail in the all-time series, 1,020-1,052 … they hitting .383 (18-47) with seven doubles, fi ve home runs and 11 are 543-496 at home (106-81 at U.S. Cellular Field) and 477-556 UPCOMING PROBABLES RBI in 12 games vs. Detroit this season. in Detroit (68-65 at Comerica Park). Adam Eaton is hitting .427 (41-96) with a .481 on-base per- VS. DETROIT TIGERS Paul Konerko leads active players with 45 HR and 152 RBI. Friday: 7:10 p.m. CT, CSN centage over his last 25 games. RHP Justin Verlander (11-11, 4.82) vs. FOLLOW THE LEADER RHP Scott Carroll (5-8, 5.05) LAST NIGHT’S RECAP Saturday (Game 1): 12:10 p.m. CT, CSN+ Jose Abreu (5th, .312), Adam Eaton (8th, .305) and Conor Chicago was limited to six hits in a 3-2 loss to Cleveland, RHP Max Scherzer (15-4, 3.13) vs. Gillaspie (10th, .304) all rank among American League leaders With runners on second and third in the eighth inning, Cody LHP Chris Sale (10-3, 2.03) in batting average. Saturday (Game 2): 6:10 p.m. CT, WGN Allen struck out Avisail Garcia to end a White Sox threat. According to STATS LLC, the last time two White Sox players LHP Kyle Ryan (MLB Debut) vs. John Danks suffered the loss, allowing two runs on fi ve hits fi nished in the Top 10 in the AL in average was 1993 when Frank RHP Chris Bassitt (MLB Debut) over 6.0 IP … Daniel Webb (1.1 IP) and Maikel Cleto (1.0) each Sunday: 1:10 p.m. CT, CSN Thomas (.317) was sixth and Lance Johnson (.311) was 10th. made scoreless appearances. RHP Rick Porcello (15-8, 3.06) vs. The last time three or more Sox fi nished among the AL leaders Alexei Ramirez collected two hits, and Jose Abreu recorded LHP Jose Quintana (6-10, 3.48) in average was 1960: Al Smith, (2nd, .315), Minnie Minoso (3rd, his 97th RBI. All games carried live on WSCR 670 AM .311), Roy Sievers (6th, .295) and Nellie Fox (9th, .289). and 97.5 FM ESPN Deportes REVERSAL OF FORTUNE LEADOFF MAN Justin Verlander is 1-3 with a 5.51 ERA (20 ER/32.2 IP) over Adam Eaton is hitting .427 (41-96) in his last 25 games (since SOX VS. DETROIT (6-6) his last fi ve starts against the White Sox, allowing 44 hits. 7/10) to raise his season average from .265 to .305. Date H/R Result WP LP By comparison, he was 12-1 with a 2.23 ERA (25 ER/101.0 IP) During that stretch, Eaton has recorded 13 multihit efforts, 4/21 R W, 3-1 Danks Sanchez in his previous 13 starts against the Sox, allowing just 75 hits. including six games with three or more hits. 4/22 R L, 6-8 Verlander Leesman He is one of four AL players this season with multiple on-base 4/23 R W, 6-4 Rienzo Reed TRIPLE THREAT 4/24 R L, 4-7 Scherzer Quintana streaks of 20-plus games, joining teammate Jose Abreu, Detroit’s Rookie Jose Abreu leads the American League with 97 RBI, 4/29 H L, 3-4 Chamberlain Belisario Miguel Cabrera and Oakland’s Josh Donaldson. is tied for second with 33 home runs and ranks fi fth with a .312 4/30 H L, 1-5 Scherzer Noesi Eaton over his last 25 games: batting average. 6/9 H W, 6-5 Noesi Porcello At his current pace, Abreu would become the fi rst rookie in AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SB OBP SLG OPS 6/10 H Ppd rain; rescheduled as DH on 8/30 6/11 H W, 8-2 Danks Verlander .427 25 96 18 41 6 2 0 9 9 5 .481 .531 1.012 major-league history to fi nish in the Top 5 of all three Triple Crown 6/12 H L, 0-4 Scherzer Sale categories and the fi fth player in White Sox history to accomplish SMOOTH SALE-ING 7/29 R W, 11-4 Quintana Sanchez the feat, joining Joe Jackson (1920), Dick Allen (1972), Frank 7/30 R L, 7-2 Scherzer Noesi Thomas (1994) and Albert Belle (1998) … source: STATS LLC. LHP Chris Sale is attempting to become the fi rst White Sox 7/31 R W, 7-4 Belisario Soria The last rookie to fi nish in the Top 10 of all three Triple Crown pitcher to lead the American League in ERA since Joel Horlen in 8/29 H 7:10 p.m. CT categories was the Dodgers Mike Piazza in 1993, while Min- 1967 (2.08). 8/30 H 12:10 p.m. CT nesota’s Tony Oliva (1964) was the last AL rookie to do so. Sale leads the AL in ERA and ranks among the leaders in H 6:10 p.m. CT 8/31 H 1:10 p.m. CT winning percentage (2nd, .769), WHIP (2nd, 0.93), opponents 9/22 R 6:08 p.m. CT HEADING TOWARD 100 average (2nd, .201), strikeouts per 9.0 IP (2nd, 10.46), opponents 9/23 R 6:08 p.m. CT Jose Abreu needs three RBI to become the fourth rookie in OPS (3rd, .547) and strikeouts (7th, 165). 9/24 R 12:08 p.m. CT White Sox history to record 100 in one season, joining Smead He has struck out 12-plus batters a franchise-record nine times Jolley (114 in 1930), Zeke Bonura (110 in 1934) and Ron Kittle and has fanned 10 or more 16 times, second-most in franchise SOX ON THE HOMESTAND (1-2) (100 in 1983).
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