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 (24-46) at CLEVELAND INDIANS (37-33) Sox After 70 | 71 in 2017 ..............31-39 | 32-39 Streak ...................................................... Lost 4 RHP Dylan Covey (3-1, 2.29) vs. RHP Trevor Bauer (5-5, 2.69) Last Homestand ...........................................2-5 Game #71/Road #35 Monday, June 18 6:10 p.m. CT Progressive Field Last Trip ........................................................4-3 Last 10 Games .............................................4-6 NBCSCH+ WGN Radio 720-AM NBCSportsChicago.com Series Record ..........................................5-15-3 Series First Game.......................................7-16 WHITE SOX AT A GLANCE WHITE SOX VS. CLEVELAND INDIANS First | Second Half ............................24-46 | 0-0 The Chicago White Sox have lost four straight games as they The Indians lead the season series, 5-2 … the teams play Home | Road ................................12-24 | 12-22 Day | Night ......................................9-27 | 15-19 open a brief three-game trip tonight in Cleveland … RHP Dylan seven games in 10 days from 6/11-20. Opp. At-Above | Below .500 .........10-23 | 14-23 Covey, who is 2-0 with a 1.00 ERA (2 ER/18.0 IP) and 19 strike- The White Sox are batting .204/.266/.366 (44-216) with a 4.65 vs. RHS | LHS ................................ 18-35 | 6-11 outs in three June starts, takes the mound for the White Sox. ERA (31 ER/60.0 IP) and have been outscored, 37-20. vs. AL East/Central/West ..............6-7/11-21/4-9 The Sox are coming off a 2-5 homestand, splitting a four-game The Sox have lost four straight games and six of the last Interleague....................................................3-9 series with Cleveland before suffering a three-game sweep by seven at Progressive Field. Comeback W's | L's After Leading .......... 14 | 19 Extra Innings.................................................1-2 Detroit over the weekend. The White Sox lead the all-time series, 1,082-1,065 … they One-Run | Two-Run Games ...............7-15 | 3-8 Following this three-game series, the Sox return to Chicago are 571-501 at home (114-113 at Guaranteed Rate Field) and Ahead After 6 | 7 | 8 ................17-7 | 17-6 | 22-3 for a seven-game, eight-day homestand vs. Oakland (6/21-24) 511-564 on the road (96-107 at Progressive Field). Behind After 6 | 7 | 8 ...............4-33 | 4-36 | 0-43 and Minnesota (6/26-28). Tied After 6 | 7 | 8 .........................3-6 | 3-4 | 2-0 The Sox went 4-3 on their last trip to Minnesota (2-2) and WHITE SOX-TRIBE TIDBITS Sox | Opp. Score First .................. 11-17 | 13-29 Sox | Opp. Score 4+ .......................19-15 | 5-38 Boston (2-1). Former White Sox owner Bill Veeck (1959-61, '76-80) owned the Cleveland Indians from 1946-49. Sox | Opp. Score 3 or Less ..............5-31 | 19-8 April | May | June ......................8-18 | 8-19 | 8-8 TONIGHT'S STORYLINES Jim Thome, who will be inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame Average Time of Game ............................... 3:06 The White Sox are a season-high 22 games under .500 … in July, played for Cleveland (1991-2002, '11) and Chicago (2006- they have lost 14 of their last 18 games in Cleveland. 09) … Thome currently serves as a special assistant to White UPCOMING PROBABLES Dylan Covey ranks third in the American League with a 1.00 Sox general manager Rick Hahn. AT CLEVELAND INDIANS ERA (2 ER/18.0 IP) in June, including a streak of 18.0 consecu- Omar Vizquel, who manages Class A Winston-Salem, played Monday: 6:10 p.m. CT | NBCSCH+ RHP Dylan Covey (3-1, 2.29) vs. with the Indians (1994-2004) and Sox (2010-11). tive IP without allowing an earned run to open the month. RHP Trevor Bauer (5-5, 2.69) The Sox bullpen owns a 1.24 ERA (5 ER/36.1 IP) over the Indians first base coach Sandy Alomar Jr. (2001-04, '06) played Tuesday: 6:10 p.m. CT | WGN-TV last 12 games and a 2.40 mark (29 ER/108.2 IP) over the last for the White Sox. LHP Carlos Rodón (0-1, 3.60) vs. 34 (since 5/13). LHP Mike Clevinger (5-2, 3.15) Chicago is holding opponents to a .133 (12-90) average with LOOKING FOR CENTRAL COMMAND Wednesday: 12:10 p.m. CT | NBCSCH The White Sox are 11-21 against the American League Central RHP Reynaldo López (2-4, 3.35) vs. RISP over the last 10 games. RHP Corey Kluber (10-3, 2.24) C Kevan Smith has hit safely in all nine games since being in 2018, going 3-11 at home and 8-10 on the road. recalled on 6/5, going 15-34 (.441) with six multihit efforts. The Sox are 302-398 vs. the AL Central since 2009, posting WHITE SOX VS. CLEVELAND (2-5) a losing record every season except 2012 (37-35). Date H/R Result WP LP YESTERDAY'S RECAP 5/28 R L, 6-9 Plutko Volstad BULLPEN RELIEF Detroit completed its second consecutive three-game sweep 5/29 R L, 3-7 Clevinger Giolito of the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field with a 3-1 victory over The White Sox bullpen has recorded a 2.08 ERA (12 ER/52.0 5/30 R L, 1-9 Kluber López the White Sox. IP) in June, the third-best mark in the major leagues, including 6/11 H L, 0-4 Carrasco Giolito 6/12 H W, 5-1 Shields Plutko a 1.24 mark (5 ER/36.1 IP) over the last 12 games. James Shields (3 ER/6.0 IP) suffered the loss despite mak- 6/13 H W, 3-2 Covey Bauer Joakim Soria owns a 0.00 ERA (11.2 IP) over his last 12 ap- ing the eighth quality start in his last 10 outings … Shields has 6/14 H L, 2-5 Clevinger Volstad pearances, converting all six save chances with five hits allowed, thrown at least 6.0 IP in 11 straight starts, his longest streak since 6/18 R 6:10 p.m. CT NBCSCH+ 9/9/15-5/25/16 when he went 13 in a row. two walks and 13 strikeouts. 6/19 R 6:10 p.m. CT WGN-TV 6/20 R 12:10 p.m. CT NBCSCH Luis Avilán (0.2 IP), Chris Volstad (1.1) and Héctor Santiago QUALITY AND QUANTITY 8/10 H 7:10 p.m. CT NBCSCH (1.0) combined for 3.0 scoreless IP in relief. The White Sox have made a major-league leading 1,345 8/11 H 6:10 p.m. CT NBCSCH The Sox outhit the Tigers, 9-6, but left eight runners on base quality starts since the start of the 2003 season, three more 8/12 H 1:10 p.m. CT WGN-TV … Matt Davidson hit his first home run since 5/13 at the Cubs, a than the second-place New York Mets (1,341) and 45 more than 9/18 R 6:10 p.m. CT NBCSCH solo shot off Blaine Hardy, and Tim Anderson, Kevan Smith and Oakland (1,300), the next-closest American League team. 9/19 R 6:10 p.m. CT WGN-TV Daniel Palka collected two hits apiece. 9/20 R 6:10 p.m. CT NBCSCH The White Sox fell to 1-8 against Detroit, their worst start in DOUBLE VISION 9/24 H 7:10 p.m. CT WGN-TV 9/25 H 7:10 p.m. CT NBCSCH the series since 1988 (also 1-8). José Abreu ranks second in the major leagues with 26 doubles, 9/26 H 7:10 p.m. CT NBCSCH+ including 21 in his last 38 games (since 5/8) … Abreu is on pace PROGRAMMING NOTES to hit 60 doubles this season, which would be the most in the SOX ON THE HOMESTAND (2-5) ESPN will carry the White Sox game at Cincinnati on 7/4 … major leagues since Colorado's Todd Helton (59) in 2000. vs. CLE/DET ...........................................2-2/0-3 NBC Sports Chicago still will carry the game as originally sched- Abreu, who hit a career-high 43 doubles in 2017, needed just Runs Scored | Allowed ........................... 19 | 26 uled beginning at 6:10 p.m. CT. 62 games this season to reach 25, which tied Bibb Falk (25 in AVG | OBP | SLG | HR ...... .220 | .273 | .336 | 5 ERA .................................. 3.57 (25 ER/63.0 IP) 1926) for the fewest in Sox history to reach that milestone. CWS AT THE CWS Quality Starts ................................................... 4 White Sox draft choices INF Nick Madrigal (first round, Oregon PITO FIRST AT FIRST AL ERA LEADERS IN JUNE State), LHP Konnor Pilkington (third round, Mississippi State) and José Abreu leads all American League first basemen in fan Club ERA RHP Davis Martin (14th round, Texas Tech) have helped their balloting for the 2018 MLB All-Star Game … Abreu is the first New York Yankees ...................................... 2.04 teams reach the College World Series in Omaha, Neb. White Sox player to lead at any point in the balloting process Boston Red Sox.......................................... 2.81 Oregon State was scheduled to play Washington today at 1:00 since Frank Thomas won the fan election at first base in 1996.