CHICAGO WHITE SOX GAME NOTES Chicago White Sox Media Relations Department 333 W. 35th Street Chicago, IL 60616 Phone: 312-674-5300 Senior Director: Bob Beghtol Assistant Director: Ray Garcia Coordinators: Joe Roti and Megan Golden Interns: Jon Farren and Melody Neer © 2015 Chicago White Sox whitesox.com orgullosox.com whitesoxpressbox.com @whitesox WHITE SOX BREAKDOWN CHICAGO WHITE SOX (55-63) at LOS ANGELES ANGELS (63-57) Sox After 118/119 in 2014 ...............55-63/56-63 Streak ...................................................... Lost 3 LHP Jose Quintana (6-10, 3,62) vs. RHP Nick Tropeano (1-1, 3.00) Current Trip...................................................0-3 Last Homestand ...........................................4-2 Game #119/Road #61 Thursday, August 20, 2015 Last 10 Games .............................................4-6 Series Record ........................................17-20-2 Series First Game.....................................18-21 WHITE SOX AT A GLANCE WHITE SOX VS. ANGELS First/Second Half ............................41-45/14-18 The Chicago White Sox have lost five of their last six games The Angels have won three straight games to even the season Home/Road ....................................30-28/25-35 as they continue a seven-game trip tonight with the finale against series at 3-3 … the Sox are hitting .239 (48-201) with a 1.80 ERA Opp. At-Above/Below .500 .............35-46/20-17 the Angels … Jose Quintana, who owns a 3.06 ERA (34 ER/100.0 (11 ER/55.0 IP) and have outscored the Angels, 18-12. vs. AL East/Central/West ........12-14/20-31/14-7 Interleague.................................................. 9-11 IP) over his last 15 starts, takes the mound for the White Sox. The Sox swept a three-game set on 8/10-12 at U.S. Cellular Comeback W’s/L’s After Leading .............. 24/22 The Sox have lost the first three games of this series by a Field, their first at home over the Angels since 8/18-20/03. Extra Innings...............................................10-3 combined four runs, including a 1-0 setback last night. The Angels have won eight straight games at home over One-Run/Two-Run Games ...............22-24/11-9 Following tonight’s game, the Sox conclude the trip this Chicago and 11 of their last 13 dating back to 9/21/12 … they Ahead After 6/7/8 ........................36-4/41-4/45-2 weekend with three games in Seattle before returning home for have won four straight season series, going 23-12 since 2011. Behind After 6/7/8 .......................6-49/5-52/2-56 Tied After 6/7/8 .............................13-10/9-7/8-5 seven games vs. Boston (8/24-26) and Seattle (8/27-30). The Angels lead the all-time series, 359-355 … the White Sox Sox/Opp. Score First ......................38-16/17-47 The Sox went 4-2 on their last homestand vs. the Angels (3-0) are 189-166 at home (63-55 at U.S. Cellular Field) and 166-193 Sox/Opp. Score 4+ ...........................38-16/8-45 and Cubs (1-2) and 0-3 on their last trip to Kansas City. on the road (144-170 at Angel Stadium). Sox/Opp. Score 3 or Less ..............17-47/47-18 April/May/June ........................8-11/15-15/10-16 tonight’S STORYLINES GRAB SOME BENCH I July/August/Sept.........................16-10/6-11/0-0 The White Sox are attempting to avoid their second four-game Chris Sale is on pace to record a franchise-record 286 strike- Average Time of Game ............................... 2:59 sweep of the season (4/30-5/3 at Minnesota), first against the An- outs, which would be the most in the major leagues since 2002 UPCOMING PROBABLES gels since 7/28-31/88 and first in Anaheim since 9/28-10/1/70. when Arizona’s Randy Johnson (334) and Curt Schilling (316) AT LOS ANGELES ANGELS The Sox have lost seven consecutive road games following both eclipsed 300 … his average of 11.90 strikeouts per 9.0 IP Thursday: 9:05 p.m. CT, WGN a seven-game winning streak away from home from 7/23-29. would be the highest in club history. LHP Jose Quintana (6-10, 3.62) vs. Chicago has lost eight straight games at Angel Stadium by a Sale, who ranks second in the major leagues with 208 strike- RHP Nick Tropeano (1-1, 3.00) combined 44-26 margin. outs, has joined Hall-of-Famer Ed Walsh (1910-12) as the only AT SEATTLE MARINERS White Sox pitchers own a 1.80 ERA (11 ER/55.0 IP) in six pitchers in Sox history to fan 200-plus in three consecutive sea- Friday: 9:10 p.m. CT, CSN games against the Angels this season. sons … he is attempting to join Walsh (1908, ‘11) as the only LHP Chris Sale (11-7, 3.32) vs. The Sox are hitting .217 (35-161) with 10 runs scored over Sox pitcher to lead the majors in strikeouts. RHP Felix Hernandez (11-7, 3.65) Saturay: 8:10 p.m. CT, WGN the last five games. Sale recorded 10-plus strikeouts in eight straight starts from LHP Carlos Rodon (5-5, 4.42) vs. 5/23-6/30, tying Hall-of-Famer Pedro Martinez (8/19-9/27/99 LHP Vidal Nuno (0-1, 3.67) LAST NIGHT’S RECAP with Boston) for the longest streak in baseball history. Sunday: 3:10 p.m. CT, CSN Carlos Perez hit a solo home run off Jeff Samardzija in the LHP John Danks (6-10, 4.61) vs. sixth inning as the Angels held on to defeat the White Sox, 1-0. GRAB SOME BENCH II RHP Taijuan Walker (8-7, 4.60) With the tying and go-ahead runs on base in the ninth, Joe Chris Sale struck out 15 batters on 8/16 vs. the Cubs for the All games carried live on WSCR-AM 670 Smith induced pinch-hitter Adam LaRoche to ground into a game- second time in his career, joining Ed Walsh (twice) as the only and WRTO-AM 1200 Univision Radio ending double play. White Sox pitchers and Jake Peavy and Max Scherzer as the Samardzija suffered the loss, allowing one run on eight hits only active pitchers to accomplish the feat. WHITE SOX VS. ANGELS (3-3) with seven strikeouts over 7.0 IP. According to Elias, Sale became the fifth left-hander in ma- Date H/R Result WP LP Melky Cabrera, J.B. Shuck and Carlos Sanchez collected two jor-league history to record at least 15 strikeouts with one or no 8/10 H W, 8-2 Sale Shoemaker 8/11 H W, 3-0 Rodon Santiago hits apiece for the Sox, who lost their seventh straight road game hits allowed, joining Randy Johnson (four), Clayton Kershaw, 8/12 H W, 3-2 (13) Albers Ramos and eighth in a row at Angel Stadium. Jon Lester and Warren Spahn (one each). 8/17 R L, 1-2 Heaney Rodon Sale has struck out 10 or more batters 28 times in 108 career 8/18 R L, 3-5 Richards Danks ON THE FARM starts (25.9 percent) and 12 or more 17 times, both franchise 8/19 R L, 0-1 Weaver Samardzija Class AA Birmingham SS Tim Anderson was 3-5 with a double, records … his 17 games with 12-plus strikeouts all have come 8/20 R 9:05 p.m. CT WGN home run and two runs scored last night at Mississippi and is since 2012, nine more than any other pitcher during that span. WHITE SOX ON THE TRIP (0-3) hitting .450 (19-40) over his last 10 games. Anderson, 21, leads the Southern League in runs scored (71), ALL ABOUT ABREU at LAA/SEA .............................................0-3/0-0 Runs Scored/Allowed ................................... 4/8 hits (146) and stolen bases (46) and ranks among the leaders in Jose Abreu is hitting .344 (33-100) with eight home runs and Average/OBP/SLG ..................... .221/.260/.253 total bases (3rd, 199) and average (4th, .317). 23 RBI over his last 27 games … Abreu is tied for sixth in the Home Runs...................................................... 0 He entered the season ranked by Baseball America as the American League after the break with 24 RBI and tied for eighth ERA .................................... 2.63 (7 ER/24.0 IP) No. 2 Prospect in the White Sox organization. with eight home runs. Quality Starts ................................................... 2 He has recorded six hitting streaks of 13-plus games since MLB ND LEADERS SINCE 2012 QUALITY IN QUANTITY 2014, the most in the major leagues (STATS) … no other player Pitcher, Club GS ND The White Sox have made 1,128 quality starts since 2003, has more than two such streaks in that span. Jose Quintana, SOX 111 47 the second-highest total in the majors behind the Mets (1,144). James Shields, S.D. 127 44 The Sox are tied with the Angels for second in the American MELKMAN DELIVERS Cole Hamels, PHI/TEX 117 40 League with 69 quality starts this season, including seven of Melky Cabrera is hitting .332 (66-199) with 20 doubles, seven Jeff Samardzija, SOX 119 39 their last nine games … Jose Quintana (T2nd, 18) and Chris homers and 36 RBI in 51 games since 6/21 … Cabrera leads the Four pitchers tied 39 Sale (T5th, 17) rank among AL leaders in 2015. American League after the break with 15 doubles and ranks fifth AL QUALITY STARTS LEADERS with 25 RBI. CLOSE CALLS He recorded a RBI in a career-high nine straight games from Club 2015 Sixty-six of the White Sox 118 games (55.9 percent) have Oakland Athletics ..........................................