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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 KANSAS CITY ROYALS (48-49) at CHICAGO WHITE SOX (47-52) Sox After 99/100 in 2013 ...........40-59/40-60 Current Streak .....................................Lost 1 RHP Jeremy Guthrie (5-8, 4.56) vs. LHP Chris Sale (8-1, 2.08) Homestand ...............................................2-1 Last Trip ...................................................3-4 Game #100/Home #49 Monday, July 21, 2014 Last 10 Games .........................................5-5 Series Record .................................. 12-16-4 Series First Game ................................16-15 WHITE SOX AT A GLANCE WHITE SOX VS. KANSAS CITY First/Second Half........................... 45-51/2-1 The Chicago White Sox have won three of their last fi ve games, Kansas City has won the last four games to take a 6-3 lead in Home/Road ............................... 26-22/21-30 six of the last 11 and 11 of 19 as they continue this six-game the season series … they recorded a three-game sweep at U.S. Day/Night .................................. 15-22/32-30 homestand tonight with the series opener vs. Kansas City. Cellular Field from 6/13-15 (outscored Chicago, 22-6). Opp. Above/At-Below .500 ........ 28-24/19-28 vs. RHS/LHS .............................34-39/13-13 LHP Chris Sale, who has allowed three runs or less in 13 of The White Sox are hitting .253 (79-312) with six homers, own vs. AL East ...........................................12-10 his 14 starts this season, takes the mound for the White Sox. a 5.19 ERA (45 ER/78.0 IP) and have been outscored, 49-34. vs. AL Central .......................................17-21 The Sox are in fourth place in the American League Central, The Sox are 14-25 over the last 39 games and 25-39 since vs. AL West ............................................8-13 9.0 games behind fi rst-place Detroit. 2011, including a 10-21 mark at U.S. Cellular Field. Interleague .............................................10-8 Following this series the Sox will take a seven-game, eight-day The White Sox lead the all-time series, 360-330 … they are Comeback W’s/L’s After Leading .........20/26 Extra innings ............................................2-5 trip to Minnesota (7/24-27) and Detroit (7/29-31). 199-150 at home (107-80 at U.S. Cellular Field) and 161-180 on One-run/two-run games ...............19-16/6-11 the road (150-158 at Kauffman Stadium). Ahead after 6/7/8................... 34-7/37-7/40-6 COUNTDOWN TO COOPERSTOWN Trailing after 6/7/8 ................. 6-37/4-39/3-43 Former White Sox 1B Frank Thomas will be inducted into the AMERICA’S PASTIME Tied after 6/7/8 ............................7-8/6-6/4-3 Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, 7/27 in Cooperstown, N.Y. Major League Baseball drew 1,665,275 fans to 15 ballparks Sox/opp. quality start................. 32-22/17-30 Sox/opp. score fi rst ................... 32-19/15-33 He will be joined by former pitchers Tom Glavine and Greg this weekend (7/18-20) … the total weekend attendance was the Sox/opp. score 4+ ..................... 37-22/10-47 Maddux and former managers Bobby Cox, Tony La Russa and league’s largest in nearly fi ve seasons. Sox/opp. score 3 or less.............. 10-30/37-5 Joe Torre at the Hall’s 75th anniversary induction ceremony. The last weekend with a higher total league-wide attendance- Average time of game ............................3:09 “The Big Hurt” received 83.7 percent of the vote, becoming mark was 7/24-26/09, when MLB games drew 1,684,095 fans. the fi rst former Sox player to be inducted on the fi rst ballot. UPCOMING PROBABLES Thomas is a two-time American League MVP (1993-94) … DIVISION DYNAMICS VS. KANSAS CITY ROYALS he is one of four players in MLB history with a .300 average, 500 Chicago is 17-21 vs. the AL Central (7-13 road mark) in 2014 Monday: 7:10 p.m. CT, CSN homers, 1,500 RBI, 1,000 runs scored and 1,500 walks. … the Sox have lost 10 of the last 11 games to the division. RHP Jeremy Guthrie (5-8, 4.56) vs. Conor Gillaspie is hitting .371 (36-97) with 12 doubles, two LHP Chris Sale (8-1, 2.08) TONIGHT’S STORYLINES triples and 16 RBI … Jose Abreu has 10 homers and 25 RBI … Tuesday: 7:10 p.m. CT, CSN Five of the White Sox last eight games (2-3 record), and nine Paul Konerko is 12-36 (.333) with two homers and seven RBI. LHP Bruce Chen (1-2, 6.46) vs. of the last 14 (4-5 mark), have been decided by one run. Chicago has fi nished under .500 vs. the AL Central in four of RHP Scott Carroll (4-5, 4.19) Wednesday: 1:10 p.m. CT, WGN The Sox have lost four straight home games vs. Kansas City the last fi ve seasons, including a 26-50 record in 2013. RHP James Shields (9-5, 3.70) vs. and are 1-10 over their last 11 at U.S. Cellular Field. LHP Jose Quintana (5-7, 3.26) The White Sox are 2-10 in the last 12 games when RHP FOLLOW THE LEADER All games carried live on WSCR 670 AM The White Sox have held a lead in 13 of their last 14 games Jeremy Guthrie starts for the Royals. and 97.5 FM ESPN Deportes Chicago starters own a 2.90 ERA (29 ER/90.0 IP), 84 strikeouts (since 7/12), 17 of the last 19 (since 6/27) and 26 of the last 29 and a .219 opponents average over the last 14 games (9 QS). overall (since 6/17). Chris Sale is 6-1 with a 1.97 ERA (13 ER/59.1 IP), 75 strikeouts The Sox have gone 8-5 in the last 13 games, 11-6 during the SOX VS. KANSAS CITY (3-5) and .167 opponents average at home this season (7 QS). 17 games and 14-12 in the 26 contests when owning a lead. Date H/R Result WP LP Jose Abreu is hitting .400 (18-45) with four doubles, two hom- Since 6/17, the only three games Chicago has not held a 4/4 R L, 5-7 Guthrie Johnson ers and fi ve RBI during his current 11-game hitting streak … has lead are 7/20 vs. Houston, 7/1-2 vs. LAA and 6/26 at Toronto. 4/5 R L, 3-4 Davis Downs hit safely in 29 of his last 30 games overall. 4/6 R W, 5-1 Sale Shields STRONG STARTING POINT 5/19 R W, 7-6 Putnam Vargas YESTERDAY’S RECAP Sox starters own a 3.27 ERA (50 ER/146.0 IP) since 6/23, the 5/20 R W, 7-6 Rienzo Ventura 5/21 R L, 1-3 Davis Quintana best mark in the AL and fourth-best in MLB during that span. Houston snapped a 7-7 tie by scoring four runs in the seventh 6/13 H L, 2-7 Guthrie Quintana inning en route to an 11-7 win over Chicago, avoiding a sweep. The group has made 17 quality starts, allowed two earned 6/14 H L, 1-9 Duffy Noesi The Astros tallied early leads of 1-0, 4-1 and 7-4 … the White runs or less 15 times and worked 7.0-plus IP 10 times. 6/15 H L, 3-6 Shields Rienzo Sox tied the game with three runs in the sixth, highlighted by Jose White Sox starters over the last 23 games (since 6/23): 7/21 H 7:10 p.m. CT 7/22 H 7:10 p.m. CT Abreu’s RBI single and Alexei Ramirez’s RBI double. W-L ERA GS QS CG IP H R ER HR BB SO AVG 7/23 H 1:10 p.m. CT Daniel Webb suffered his third loss after allowing all four runs 10-4 3.27 22 17 1 146.0 132 55 53 15 45 125 .239 9/15 R 7:10 p.m. CT in the eighth … John Danks received a no decision after surren- 9/16 R 7:10 p.m. CT dering seven runs on a career-high matching 12 hits in 4.1 IP. SOUTHSIDE’S BIG THREE 9/17 R 7:10 p.m. CT Abreu (2-5) extended his hitting streak to 11 games … Adam LHPs John Danks, Jose Quintana and Chris Sale have com- 9/25 H 7:10 p.m. CT Eaton (2-3) recorded his second straight multihit effort. bined for a 3.33 ERA (127 ER/343.2 IP) and .237 (306-1,293) 9/26 H 7:10 p.m. CT The Sox went 2-14 with RISP and left nine runners on base. opponents average over 54 starts this season. 9/27 H 6:10 p.m. CT 9/28 H 1:10 p.m. CT The trio owns a 21-14 record (19 no decisions) and has totaled WILKINS WINS WEEKLY HONOR 40 of the White Sox 54 quality starts in 2014 (74.1 percent). Class AAA Charlotte 1B Andy Wilkins has been named the The lefties have allowed just 28 homers (0.73 HR/9.0 IP).
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