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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 NEW YORK YANKEES (24-22) at CHICAGO WHITE SOX (24-25) Sox After 49/50 in 2013 .............24-25/24-26 Current Streak ....................................Won 1 RHP Hiroki Kuroda (3-3, 4.61) vs. RHP Hector Noesi (0-4, 7.31) Homestand ...............................................1-0 Last Trip ...................................................4-5 Game #50/Home #23 Friday, May 23, 2014 Last 10 Games .........................................5-5 Series Record ...................................... 5-9-1 Series First Game ..................................11-6 WHITE SOX AT A GLANCE COUNTDOWN TO COOPERSTOWN First/Second Half........................... 24-25/0-0 The Chicago White Sox have won three of the last four games Frank Thomas will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Home/Road ............................... 12-10/12-15 and fi ve of eight as they continue their series vs. New York-AL. Fame on July 27 in Cooperstown, N.Y. … joining Thomas in the Class Day/Night .................................... 8-10/16-15 RHP Hector Noesi, who has worked 6.0 IP in each of his last of 2014 are pitchers Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux and managers Opp. Above/At-Below .500 ...........13-8/11-17 Bobby Cox, Tony La Russa and Joe Torre. vs. RHS/LHS .................................18-19/6-6 two starts, takes the mound for the White Sox. vs. AL East ...............................................5-3 Chicago is in fourth place in the American League Central, “The Big Hurt”, the White Sox all-time leader in most offensive cat- egories, is one of four players in major-league history with a career .300 vs. AL Central .......................................11-11 vs. AL West ..............................................3-6 6.0 games behind the division-leading Detroit Tigers. average, 500 home runs, 1,500 RBI and 1,000 runs scored and 1,500 Interleague ...............................................5-5 Following this four-game series vs. the Yankees (5/22-25), the walks, joining Mel Ott, Babe Ruth and Ted Williams. Sox will continue the homestand vs. Cleveland (5/26-28) and San Comeback W’s/L’s After Leading .........14/11 Extra innings ............................................2-1 Diego (5/30-6/1) … the team has an off day on 5/29. WHITE SOX VS. NEW YORK YANKEES One-run/two-run games .................... 7-6/5-5 Ahead after 6/7/8................... 14-2/16-2/19-2 Chicago has won seven of the last 10 games overall but are TONIGHT’S STORYLINES Trailing after 6/7/8 ................. 4-18/3-19/2-21 The White Sox are trying to get to the .500 mark for the fi rst 13-15 since 2010, including a 8-6 mark at U.S. Cellular Field. Tied after 6/7/8 ............................6-5/5-4/3-2 time since 5/10 (19-19). Each of the last three series have been sweeps … Chicago Sox/opp. quality start..................14-11/10-13 The Sox have won seven consecutive home games vs. the recorded home sweeps from 8/20-22/12 and 8/5-7/13 … the Sox/opp. score fi rst ....................... 15-8/9-17 Yankees won all three games in New York from 9/2-4/13. Sox/opp. score 4+ ........................20-11/6-22 Yankees, the longest streak since 5/7/89-6/29/90 (also seven). Sox/opp. score 3 or less................ 4-12/17-5 The Sox are hitting .250 (8-32), own a 1.00 ERA (1 ER/9.0 Chicago is 13-8 vs. teams at or above .500 this season, Average time of game ............................3:13 compared to an 11-17 mark vs. teams with a losing record. IP) and have outscored the Yankees, 3-2. Sox starters own a 2.33 ERA (5 ER/19.1 IP) with 22 strikeouts Chicago trails in the all-time series, 811-1,046 … it has gone and .197 opponents average (14-71) in the last three games. 444-487 at home (49-51 at U.S. Cellular Field) and 367-559 on UPCOMING PROBABLES Conor Gillaspie has hit safely in 15 of his last 17 games, bat- the road (5-12 at new Yankee Stadium). VS. NEW YORK YANKEES ting .344 (22-64) with fi ve doubles and six RBI (fi ve multihit). Friday: 7:10 p.m. CT, CSN WHITE SOX EXTEND CONDOLENCES RHP Hiroki Kuroda (3-3, 4.61) vs. LAST NIGHT’S RECAP The White Sox extend sympathies to the family and friends of RHP Hector Noesi (0-4, 7.31) Saturday, 1:10 p.m. CT, CSN Chris Sale extended his season-opening winning streak to Loretta “Grandma” Micele, who passed away last night at the age LHP Vidal Nuno (1-1, 5.82) vs. four games in the White Sox 3-2 victory over the Yankees. of 93 … Micele worked as a guest services staffer at Comiskey LHP John Danks (3-4, 5.64) Sale surrendered one hit with 10 strikeouts in 6.0 scoreless IP, Park and U.S. Cellular Field from 1947-2013 (67 seasons). Sunday: 1:10 p.m. CT, CSN and was perfect through 5.2 IP … it was his second straight outing RHP Masahiro Tanaka (6-1, 2.39) vs. WEATHERING THE STORM RHP Andre Rienzo (4-0, 4.00) with 10 strikeouts and one hit allowed (also 4/17 vs. Boston). Ronald Belisario earned his second save, strucking out Alfonso There have been 186 combined games missed by eight White All games carried live on WSCR 670 AM Soriano to end the game with the tying run on fi rst … Zach Putnam Sox players (fi ve current) who made the Opening Day roster. and 97.5 FM ESPN Deportes and Daniel Webb each worked a scoreless 1.0 IP in relief. A breakdown of players and games: Jose Abreu (5), Adam Eaton (14), Avisail Garcia (40), Nate Jones (46), Lindstrom (3), Alejandro De Aza and Adam Eaton gave the Sox an early 2-0 SOX VS. NEW YORK-AL (1-0) lead with RBI singles in the second … Adam Dunn added a RBI Felipe Paulino (32), Chris Sale (32) and Conor Gillaspie (14). INF Gordon Beckham (22 games) started 2014 on the DL. Date H/R Result WP LP single in the eighth … Chicago was 4-10 with RISP. 5/22 H W, 3-2 Sale Phelps MISSING IN ACTION 5/23 H 7:10 p.m. CT TWO-MAN CLUB 5/24 H 1:10 p.m. CT Chris Sale surrendered just one hit with 10 strikeouts over 1B Jose Abreu was placed on the 15-day disabled list on 5/25 H 1:10 p.m. CT 6.0 scoreless IP last night vs. the Yankees, his fi rst outing since 5/18 with infl ammation in his left ankle … he will be in a walking 8/22 R 6:05 p.m. CT being reinstated from the disabled list. boot during his recovery … no timetable is set for his return. 8/23 R 12:05 p.m. CT 8/24 R TBA He also allowed just one hit with 10 strikeouts in his last start Chicago is 3-2 since Abreu went on the disabled list. on 4/17 vs. Boston (ND; 1 ER/7.0 IP). Abreu ranks among the MLB leaders in homers (1st, 15), AB/ Sale is the second pitcher in the modern era (since 1900) to HR ratio (1st, 11.53), RBI (T2nd, 42), extra-base hits (3rd, 27), WHITE SOX ON HOMESTAND (1-0) allow one hit with 10-plus strikeouts in consecutive starts … the total bases (6th, 103) and slugging percentage (5th, .595). vs. NYY/CLE/S.D. .......................1-0/0-0/0-0 Mets’ R.A. Dickey also accomplished the feat in 2012 (Elias). Abreu is the reigning American League Player and Rookie of Average ....................................... .250 (8-32) the Month, winning both honors in his fi rst month in the majors. Home Runs .................................................0 STRIKEOUT MACHINE Runs Scored/Allowed ...............................3/2 DIGGING THE LONG BALL ERA ..................................1.00 (1 ER/9.0 IP) Chris Sale (64 career starts) recorded his second double-digit Quality Starts...............................................1 strikeout game of the season last night and 12th career. The White Sox rank second in the AL with 52 home runs. He is tied with Alex Fernandez (197 starts with the White Sox) The Sox are 19-9 when hitting at least one homer and 12-3 for the fourth-most, 10-plus strikeout games in team history. when recording a multihomer game (5-16 when homerless). AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS The top three White Sox pitchers for double-digit strikeout ef- Chicago ranks among the MLB home run leaders in the follow- Club R/G forts are Ed Walsh (17; 312 starts), Juan Pizarro (15; 145 starts) ing categories: with two outs (T1st, 19), RISP (2nd, 17), seventh Oakland Athletics 5.17 and Javier Vazquez (13; 97 starts). inning or later (T2nd, 19) and RISP/two outs (T4th, 7). Los Angeles Angels 4.93 Toronto Blue Jays 4.90 Chicago White Sox 4.84 CAPTAINS SAY FAREWELL THE KIDS JUST WON’T QUIT Club RS White Sox captain Paul Konerko and Yankees captain Derek The White Sox have two wins when trailing after eight innings Oakland Athletics 243 Jeter are both playing their fi nal seasons in 2014. in 2014, matching their total from the entire 2013 season.