CHICAGO WHITE SOX 2018 GAME NOTES AND INFORMATION 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 Manager: Billy Russo Coordinators: Joe Roti and Hannah Sundwall © 2018 Chicago White Sox whitesox.com loswhitesox.com whitesoxpressbox.com chisoxpressbox.com @whitesox WHITE SOX 2018 BREAKDOWN CHICAGO WHITE SOX (52-79) at NEW YORK YANKEES (83-48) Sox After 131 | 132 in 2017 ..........52-79 | 52-80 Streak ......................................................Won 4 RHP James Shields (5-15, 4.59) vs. RHP Lance Lynn (8-9, 4.84) Current Trip...................................................4-1 Game #132 | Road #67 Tuesday, August 28 6:05 p.m. CT Yankee Stadium Last Homestand ...........................................3-2 Last 10 Games .............................................7-3 NBCSCH WGN 720-AM NBCSportsChicago.com MLB.TV Series Record ........................................12-24-7 Series First Game.....................................15-29 WHITE SOX AT A GLANCE WHITE SOX VS. NEW YORK-AL First | Second Half ........................33-62 | 19-17 Home | Road ................................25-40 | 27-39 The Chicago White Sox have won a season-high tying four The Yankees lead the season series, 3-1, including a three- Day | Night ....................................19-39 | 33-40 straight games, 10 of their last 13 and 15 of 24 as they continue game sweep from 8/6-8 (fi rst in Chicago since 5/27-29/02). Opp. At-Above | Below .500 .........20-40 | 32-39 a seven-game trip tonight at Yankee Stadium. The Sox are batting .197/.250/.299 (29-147) with a 4.50 ERA vs. RHS | LHS .............................. 41-58 | 11-21 RHP James Shields is scheduled to start for the White Sox, (20 ER/40.0 IP) and have been outscored, 20-12. vs. AL East/Central/West ....11-12 | 26-34 | 10-21 who are looking for their fi rst fi ve-game winning streak since The White Sox are 3-10-1 in the last 14 season matchups and Interleague..................................................5-12 Comeback W's | L's After Leading ..........29 | 35 4/23-29/17 (six). are 4-13 at Yankee Stadium since 2013. Extra Innings.................................................3-4 The Sox are 4-1 on the trip to Detroit (3-1) and New York-AL The Sox trail the all-time series, 821-1,066 … they are 450- One-Run | Two-Run Games ...........13-20 | 7-14 (1-0), winning the last four games by a combined 25-8 margin. 497 at home (55-61 at Guaranteed Rate Field) and 371-569 on Ahead After 6 | 7 | 8 ................39-9 | 39-8 | 45-5 Following this three-game series, the White Sox return to the road (9-22 at new Yankee Stadium). Trailing After 6 | 7 | 8 ...............8-60 | 7-63 | 1-72 Chicago for a 10-game, 11-day homestand vs. Boston (8/30-9/2), Tied After 6 | 7 | 8 .......................5-10 | 6-8 | 6-2 LOOKING FOR AN EDGE VS. THE EAST Sox | Opp. Score First ..................27-30 | 25-49 Detroit (9/3-5) and the Angels (9/7-9). Sox | Opp. Score 4+ .....................44-26 | 16-66 The White Sox are 190-231 vs. the American League East The Sox went 3-2 on their last homestand vs. Kansas City Sox | Opp. Score 3 or Less ............8-53 | 36-13 (2-1) and Minnesota (1-1) from 8/16-22. since 2007, with their only winning record during that span com- March/April | May | June .......8-18 | 8-19 | 12-17 ing in 2016 (19-14). July | August | September .......9-15 | 15-10 | 0-0 TONIGHT'S STORYLINES The Sox are 11-12 vs. the AL East this season (7-3 on the Average Time of Game ............................... 3:07 James Shields is scheduled to make his 400th career start road) and have won 10 of their last 19 games after a 1-4 start. UPCOMING PROBABLES … Shields is 5-2 with a 2.42 ERA (13 ER/48.1 IP) over his last KOPECH'S HISTORIC START AT NEW YORK YANKEES seven starts against the Yankees. Tuesday: 6:05 p.m. CT | NBCSCH The White Sox starting rotation owns a 2.10 ERA (6 ER/25.2 Michael Kopech is the only major-league pitcher since 1908 to RHP James Shields (5-15, 4.59) vs. IP) during the four-game winning streak. allow one or no runs and no walks in each of his fi rst two career RHP Lance Lynn (8-9, 4.84) The Sox are hitting .277/.334/.473 (145-524) with 22 home starts (source: Baseball Reference). Wednesday: 6:05 p.m. CT | NBCSCH runs and 85 runs scored over the last 15 games (5.7 R/G). Kopech, 22, also has gone 32.0 consecutive IP without issuing RHP Reynaldo López (4-9, 4.66) vs. LHP CC Sabathia (7-4, 3.32) Yolmer Sánchez has reached base safely in 15 straight games. a walk dating back to 7/14 with Class AAA Charlotte. VS. BOSTON RED SOX WINNING WAYS POWER AND SPEED … Thursday: 7:10 p.m. CT | NBCSCH The White Sox are 10-3 since 8/14, tied with Tampa Bay for Tim Anderson (17 HR/25 SB) is one of fi ve players in the major TBA vs. RHP Lucas Giolito (10-9, 5.85) the best record in the major leagues, including an 8-3 record so leagues this season with at least 15 home runs and 25 stolen bases, joining Mookie Betts, Starling Marte, José Ramírez and Friday: 7:10 p.m. CT | NBCSCH far during their stretch of playing 20 straight days from 8/17-9/5. TBA vs. The Sox have gone 15-9 since 8/2, moving from 9.0 games Trea Turner. RHP Michael Kopech (1-0, 1.13) behind Detroit to within 1.0 game of the Tigers for third place in Anderson is looking to join Alex Ríos (2010) and Tommie Agee Saturday: 6:10 p.m. CT | WGN-TV the American League Central. (1966) as the only players in White Sox history to record 20-plus TBA vs. LHP Carlos Rodón (6-3, 2.70) The White Sox have won four straight road games and 10 of homers and 30-plus steals in one season. Sunday: 1:10 p.m. CT | NBCSCH their last 12, their best 12-game stretch away from home since … AND IMPROVED GLOVEWORK TBA vs. 6/30-7/29/15 (11-1). SS Tim Anderson has played 16 consecutive errorless games RHP James Shields (pitching tonight) LAST NIGHT'S RECAP and owns a .984 fi elding percentage (4 E/243 TC) over his last WHITE SOX VS. NEW YORK-AL (1-3) Carlos Rodón threw 7.0 IP for his fi fth consecutive victory, 67 games since 6/10, the fi fth-best mark in the American League. Date H/R Result WP LP and the White Sox rallied to win their fourth straight game, 6-2, By comparison, Anderson posted a .957 (53 E/1,247 TC) 8/6 H L, 0-7 Lynn Covey at Yankee Stadium. fi elding percentage over his fi rst 302 career games at shortstop 8/7 H L, 3-4 (13) Gray Avilán 8/8 H L, 3-7 Severino Giolito Rodón allowed just two runs on two hits for his ninth straight from 6/10-16-6/9/18. 8/27 R W, 6-2 Rodón Tanaka quality start (see notes below), Juan Minaya threw 1.2 scoreless QUALITY AND QUANTITY 8/28 R 6:05 p.m. CT NBCSCH IP for his sixth hold, and Xavier Cedeño recorded the fi nal out. The White Sox have made a major-league leading 1,375 8/29 R 6:05 p.m. CT NBCSCH Trailing, 2-0, the Sox took a 3-2 lead in the sixth inning on Yoán quality starts since the start of the 2003 season, one more Moncada's two-run double and Nicky Delmonico's sacrifi ce fl y WHITE SOX ON THE TRIP (4-1) than the second-place Mets (1,374) and 49 more than Oakland off Masahiro Tanaka … they added a run in the seventh and two at DET | NYY ........................................3-1 | 1-0 (1,326), the next-closest American League team. Runs Scored | Allowed ........................... 27 | 15 in the ninth. The Sox have made 15 quality starts in the last 24 games. AVG | OBP | SLG | HR ...... .278 | .337 | .438 | 3 Tim Anderson hit a pair of doubles for the White Sox, who ERA .................................. 2.86 (14 ER/44.0 IP) outhit the Yankees, 11-3, and held them hitless in seven at-bats GRAB SOME BENCH Quality Starts ................................................... 3 with RISP. The White Sox have struck out 1,262 times this season, the BEST MLB RECORDS SINCE 8/14 highest total in the major leagues … the Sox are on pace to RODÓN CONTINUES HIS ROLL Club W-L Pct. strike out 1,561 times, which would break the franchise record Carlos Rodón is 5-0 with a 1.72 ERA (11 ER/57.2 IP) and .141 Chicago White Sox ................10-3 ........... .769 of 1,397 set in 2017. (27-191) opponents average over his last eight starts since 7/11 Tampa Bay Rays ..................... 10-3 ........... .769 St. Louis Cardinals .................... 9-3 ........... .750 … his 1.72 ERA during that span ranks fi fth in the majors. PALKA POWER Chicago Cubs ............................9-4 ........... .692 Rodón has made nine straight quality starts while allowing Daniel Palka, who was claimed off waivers from Minnesota New York Yankees .....................9-4 ........... .692 fi ve hits or less, the longest such streak by a Sox pitcher since on 11/4/17, ranks among the American League rookie leaders ALL-TIME STRIKEOUT LEADERS at least 1908 (Baseball Reference).