CHICAGO WHITE SOX 2020 GAME NOTES AND INFORMATION © 2020 Chicago White Sox Guaranteed Rate Field (1991|40,615) 333 W. 35th Street Chicago, Ill. 60616 Media Relations Department Phone: 312-674-5300 Email: [email protected] credentials.mlb.com whitesox.com loswhitesox.com whitesoxpressbox.com chisoxpressbox.com @whitesox @loswhitesox #WhiteSox TONIGHT'S GAME IS AVAILABLE ON THE FOLLOWING MEDIA PLATFORMS: WHITE SOX 2020 BREAKDOWN PITTSBURGH PIRATES (7-17) at CHICAGO WHITE SOX (17-12) White Sox after 29 | 30 in 2019 ....14-15 | 14-16 LHP Steven Brault (0-0, 3.00) vs. RHP Lucas Giolito (2-2, 3.89) Current Streak ......................................... Lost 1 Last Trip | Last Homestand ...................2-1 | 5-2 Game #30 | Home #15 Tuesday, August 25 7:10 p.m. CT Guaranteed Rate Field Last 10 Games .............................................7-3 Series Record ............................................5-5-0 Series First Game.........................................5-5 WHITE SOX AT A GLANCE WHITE SOX VS. PITTSBURGH PIRATES Home | Road ......................................7-8 | 10-4 The Chicago White Sox have won seven of their last eight The all-time series is even at 17-17 … the Sox have lost eight Day | Night ..........................................5-7 | 12-5 games and 16 of 24 as they open a fi ve-game, six-day homestand straight games by a combined 46-17 margin. Opp. At or Above | Below .500 ..............9-9 | 8-3 tonight against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Pittsburgh swept the 2018 series, 4-0 … in the two game-set vs. RHS | LHS ..................................10-12 | 7-0 RHP Lucas Giolito, who matched his career high with 13 in Chicago, the Sox were unable to hold a 4-0, fi rst-inning lead vs. AL Central | NL Central .................12-7 | 5-5 Comeback W's | L's After Leading ..............5 | 4 strikeouts in his last start on 8/20 vs. Detroit, is scheduled to start on 5/8 and a 5-2 lead in the ninth on 5/9. Extra Innings.................................................0-1 for the White Sox. James McCann owns a .523 slugging percentage in 12 career One-Run | Two-Run Games .................2-4 | 4-1 The Sox are tied with Cleveland for second place in the Amer- games against the Pirates. Ahead After 6 | 7 | 8 ................12-1 | 14-1 | 16-0 ican League Central, 2.5 games behind Minnesota (20-10) … if Behind After 6 | 7 | 8 ...................1-11 | 0-9 | 0-9 INTERLEAGUE INSIGHT the season ended today, they would own the No. 5 seed in the Tied After 6 | 7 | 8 .........................4-0 | 3-0 | 1-1 Sox | Opp. Score First ........................15-4 | 2-8 AL playoff s. The White Sox are 223-210 (.515) all-time during interleague play (116-99 at home), but have gone 41-69 since 2015. Days in 1st | 2nd | 3rd Place ................1 | 6 | 14 The White Sox won two of three games from the Cubs at Days in 4th | 5th Place ................................ 9 | 3 The Sox are 5-5 during interleague play this season, going Wrigley Field last weekend … the Sox hit 12 home runs in the July | August | Sept. ....................3-4 | 14-8 | 0-0 series and outscored the Cubs, 18-7. 4-1 on the road and 1-4 at home. Average Time of Game ............................... 3:04 Following this two-game series and a day off on Thursday, the The White Sox rank fourth all-time with 546 home runs, trailing only Toronto (579). UPCOMING PROBABLES Sox conclude the homestand with three games this weekend vs. VS. PITTSBURGH PIRATES Kansas City before taking a nine-game, 10-day trip to Minnesota LONG BALL LOGISTICS Wednesday: 1:10 p.m. CT (8/31-9/2), Kansas City (9/3-6) and Pittsburgh (9/8-9). The White Sox are tied with San Diego for second in the major RHP Trevor Williams (1-4, 3.70) vs. LHP Dallas Keuchel (4-2, 2.65) TONIGHT'S STORYLINES leagues with 55 home runs, a franchise record through 29 games … the 2000 Sox owned the previous club record for most home WHITE SOX VS. PITTSBURGH (0-0) The White Sox have won fi ve straight home games by a 38-11 runs through 29 games (43) and 30 games (44) of a season. All-Time: 17-17 (0-8 since 2015) margin, their longest winning streak since 8/12-9/3/12 (eight). The Sox are on pace to hit 114 home runs during this abbre- Home: 9-7 The Sox have scored 20 straight runs via the home run dating viated 60-game season, which would project to 307 over 162 Road: 8-10 (6-7 at PNC Park) back to the eighth inning on 8/20 vs. Detroit, three short of the games (franchise record is 242 in 2004). Date H/R Result WP LP major-league record set by Milwaukee in 2019. The White Sox hit a major-league record 27 home runs over 8/25 H 7:10 p.m. CT The White Sox have hit 30 home runs over the last nine games, 8/26 H 7:10 p.m. CT a seven-game stretch from 8/16-22 … they have homered six including a major-league record 27 over a seven-game stretch 9/8 R 6:05 p.m. CT times in a game twice this season, tying the franchise record set from 8/16-22 (Elias). 9/9 R 6:05 p.m. CT in 2003 and 2018. Chicago's +31 run diff erential is third-best in the American WHITE SOX ON THE TRIP (2-1) League … the Sox have outscored the opposition, 56-18, over STREAKING SOX vs. CUBS ......................................................2-1 the last eight games. The White Sox are hitting .306/.361/.655 (85-278) with 28 Runs Scored | Allowed ............................. 18 | 7 The White Sox are 7-0 vs. left-handed starters in 2020. home runs and 56 runs scored (7.0) over the last eight games. AVG | OBP | SLG | HR .... .295 | .347 | .652 | 12 Sox starting pitchers own a 2.77 ERA (38 ER/123.1 IP) over During that span, José Abreu is hitting .515/.556/1.333 (17- Average with RISP ............................211 (4-19) ERA | QS ....................... 2.42 (7 ER/26.0 IP) | 2 the last 24 games (12.64 over fi rst fi ve) … the bullpen owns a 33) with three doubles, eight home runs and 16 RBI, and Tim 1.05 ERA (3 ER/25.2 IP) during the current 7-1 run. Anderson is slashing .371/.421/.771 (13-35) with four homers, WHITE SOX AMONG AL LEADERS José Abreu is the fi rst player in franchise history to hit six home seven RBI and 11 runs scored. Category Rank No. runs over a three-game span. Eloy Jiménez owns a .385/.396/.769 (20-52) average with six Home Runs 1st 55 home runs and 12 RBI over his last 13 games … Jiménez has Slugging Pct. 1st .481 SUNDAY'S RECAP Average 1st .266 40 homers and 99 RBI in 149 career games. Yoán Moncada grounded out with the bases loaded to end the OPS 2nd .807 game as the White Sox seven-game winning streak came to an BULLPEN STREAKING On-Base Pct. 4th .326 Runs/Game 4th 5.00 end with a 2-1 loss to the Cubs at Wrigley Field. LHP Ross Detwiler has thrown 12.1 scoreless IP over nine José Abreu homered for the third straight game (six total), appearances, facing just two batters over the minimum while GIOLITO AL RANKS SINCE 2019 hitting a solo homer off Yu Darvish in the second to give the Sox posting a 0.32 WHIP. Category Rank No. a 1-0 lead. Rookie RHP Matt Foster has thrown 13.1 scoreless IP over Complete Games T1st 3 RHP Dylan Cease suff ered the loss in his fi rst career start eight appearances (two starts) to begin his major-league career, Shutouts T1st 2 against his former team, allowing two runs on four hits over 6.0 SO/9.0 IP 3rd 11.63 allowing just four hits with 17 strikeouts … Foster's career-open- WHIP 5th 1.09 IP … rookie Matt Foster (13.1 IP) and Ross Detwiler (12.1) each ing scoreless streak is the longest by a Sox pitcher since 1974, Strikeouts 5th 273 threw 1.0 IP to extend their season-opening scoreless streaks. eclipsing the mark of 13.0 by Jack McDowell from 9/15-20/87. ERA 6th 3.49 The Sox went 0-4 with RISP and left 10 runners on base. SO/BB 9th 3.74 LEADOFF MEN GIOLITO'S RARE GEM Tim Anderson led off the game on 8/18 vs. Detroit with a home ABREU AMONG AL LEADERS According to Baseball Reference, RHP Lucas Giolito became run for the second straight game, third time in his last six and Category Rank No. the fi rst pitcher in White Sox history to throw 7.0 IP or less with third game in a row against the Tigers. RBI 1st 28 zero runs allowed, 13-plus strikeouts and one or zero walks in Total Bases 1st 79 Anderson is the fi fth player in MLB history to hit a leadoff ho- Home Runs T1st 11 his last start on 8/20 vs. Detroit. mer in three straight games vs. a single opponent, most recently Hits 3rd 38 Giolito recorded his eighth career game with 10-plus strikeouts accomplished by Atlanta's Ronald Acuña Jr. (four vs. Miami from Extra-Base Hits 3rd 19 (second with 13) … he has struck out 10-plus batters fi ve times 7/31-8/14/18).