CHICAGO WHITE SOX GAME NOTES Chicago White Sox Media Relations DepartmentGAME 333 W. 35th StreetN Chicago,OTES IL 60616 Phone: 312-674-5300 Fax: 312-674-5847 Director: Bob Beghtol, 312-674-5303 Manager: Ray Garcia, 312-674-5306 Coordinators: Leni Depoister, 312-674-5300 and Joe Roti, 312-674-5319 © 2013 Chicago White Sox whitesox.com orgullosox.com whitesoxpressbox.com mlbpressbox.com Twitter: @whitesox CHICAGO WHITE SOX (56-83) at BALTIMORE ORIOLES (74-65) WHITE SOX BREAKDOWN Record ..............................................56-82 LHP John Danks (4-11, 4.35) vs. RHP Scott Feldman (4-4, 4.18) Sox After 139/140 in 2012 ..... 75-64/75-64 Current Streak .................................Lost 7 Current Trip ...........................................0-7 Game #140/Road #74 Friday, September 6, 2013 Last Homestand ....................................4-2 Last 10 Games .....................................2-8 WHITE SOX AT A GLANCE WHITE SOX VS. BALTIMORE Series Record ............................... 16-21-7 First/Second Half ................... 37-55/19-28 The season series is even at 2-2 with three games left. The Chicago White Sox have lost seven straight games as Home/Road ............................ 32-34/24-49 they continue a 10-game trip tonight in Baltimore … LHP John Chicago is hitting .235 (31-132) with a 2.57 ERA (10 ER/35.0 Day/Night ............................... 22-27/34-56 Danks, who is 1-7 with a 4.77 ERA (32 ER/60.1 IP) in 10 road IP) … both teams have scored 11 runs. Grass/Turf .................................. 54-78/2-5 starts this season, takes the mound for the White Sox. The White Sox went 2-6 against Baltimore in 2012 to fall to Opp. Above/At-Below .500 ..... 30-44/26-39 The Sox are 0-7 on the trip, dropping a 3-1 decision last night 0-3-1 in the last four season matchups. vs. RHS/LHS .......................... 43-61/12-22 vs. AL East ........................................12-17 The Sox trail in the all-time series, 382-366 … they are 199- after suffering a pair of three-game sweeps at Boston (8/30-9/1) vs. AL Central....................................21-36 and New York-AL (9/2-4). 177 at home (55-46 at U.S. Cellular Field) and 167-205 on the vs. AL West .......................................15-18 Following this four-game series, the White Sox return to Chi- road (49-41 at Camden Yards). Interleague ..........................................8-12 cago for a 10-game homestand vs. Detroit (9/9-11), Cleveland Comeback Wins .....................................32 (9/12-15) and Minnesota (9/16-18). ON THE TRIP Losses After Leading .............................37 The White Sox are 0-7 on this 10-game trip to Boston (0-3), Extra innings .......................................9-13 Chicago went 4-2 on its last homestand vs. Texas (2-1) and One-run/two-run games ..........21-30/11-18 Houston (2-1) and 6-1 on its last trip to Minnesota (3-1) and New York-AL (0-3) and Baltimore (0-1) … fi ve of the seven losses Ahead after 6/7/8 .............41-13/41-9/43-3 Kansas City (3-0) from 8/15-21. have come by two runs or less, including three by one run. Trailing after 6/7/8 ..............7-57/4-58/2-67 Tied after 6/7/8 ................8-13/11-16/11-13 TONIGHT’S STORYLINES ABOUT THE ROSTER Sox/opp. quality start ............. 41-39/25-58 The White Sox have 31 players on the active roster: 16 pitch- Sox/opp. score fi rst ................ 29-29/27-54 The White Sox have lost seven straight games after winning Sox/opp. score 4+ ..................40-30/14-60 10 of their previous 12. ers, three catchers, eight infi elders and four outfi elders. Sox/opp. score 3 or less ........ 16-53/42-23 Chicago has lost 15 of its last 24 games at Camden Yards. The Sox purchased the contracts of C Miguel Gonzalez, RHP Average time of game .........................3:02 John Danks is 1-0 with a 2.66 ERA (6 ER/20.1 IP) in his last Erik Johnson, INF Marcus Semien and RHP Daniel Webb from three starts at Camden Yards. Class AAA Charlotte on 9/3 … they recalled LHP Charlie Leesman UPCOMING PROBABLES Avisail Garcia is hitting .361 (30-83) in his last 22 games. and purchased the contract of C Bryan Anderson on 9/1. Twenty-seven players were in spring camp with the Sox. AT BALTIMORE ORIOLES LAST NIGHT’S RECAP Friday: 6:05 p.m. CT, CSN WELCOME TO THE SHOW LHP John Danks (4-11, 4.35) vs. Baltimore hit three solo home runs in a 3-1 victory, extending RHP Scott Feldman (4-4, 4.18) the White Sox losing streak to seven games. RHP Erik Johnson and 3B Marcus Semien made their major- Saturday: 12:05 p.m. CT, FOX Starter Jose Quintana took the loss, allowing all three runs on league debuts in the starting lineup on Wednesday at New York-AL, LHP Hector Santiago (4-8, 3.43) vs. seven hits over 7.0 IP … Addison Reed struck out the side in the while RHP Daniel Webb also made his debut. LHP Wei-Yin Chen (7-7, 3.87) eighth inning. Accoring to Elias, it marked the fi rst time that two White Sox Sunday: 12:35 p.m. CT, CSN played made their major-league debuts in the same starting RHP Andre Rienzo (1-1, 5.03) vs. Dayan Viciedo collected two of Chicago’s fi ve hits … the Sox RHP Bud Norris (4-1, 4.28) loaded the bases with no outs in the second inning but settled lineup since 8/2/90 when 1B Frank Thomas (0-4, RBI) and Alex VS. DETROIT TIGERS for one run. Fernandez (2 ER/7.0 IP) debuted in a 4-3 victory at Milwaukee. Monday: 7:10 p.m. CT, CSN It also marked the fi rst time since 9/7/99 that three Sox players TBA vs. ROSTER MOVE made their major-league debut in the same game: C Josh Paul, LHP Chris Sale (10-12, 2.97) Prior to tonight’s game, the White Sox reinstated RHP Ramon RHP Aaron Myette and SS Jason Dellaero at Anaheim (Elias). Tuesday: 7:10 p.m. CT, WCIU Troncoso from the 15-day disabled list … Troncoso, 30, has been TBA vs. on the disabled list since 8/17 with Pericarditis (infl ammation of QUALITY AND QUANTITY RHP Erik Johnson (0-1, 4.50) The White Sox have made 960 quality starts since 2003, the Wednesday: 7:10 p.m. CT, CSN the tissue around the heart). TBA vs. With the move, the Sox active roster increases to 31. most in the majors … the Angels are second with 954. LHP Jose Quintana (7-6, 3.70) The White Sox also have outrighted RHP Jhan Marinez to The Sox rank fi fth in the American League with 80 quality All games carried live on WSCR 670-AM starts in 2013. Class AAA Charlotte. and ESPN Deportes 97.5-FM BARONS TAKE OPENER LET’S PLAY SPOILER Chris Bassitt combined with Ryan Kussmaul and Cody Winiar- The White Sox play 23 of 26 games from 8/20-9/15 vs. teams SOX ON THE TRIP ski on a four-hitter as Class AA Birmingam defeated Tennessee above .500, including three-game series vs. each fi rst-place team Overall Record ......................................0-7 (Cubs) in Game 1 of their Southern League playoff series. in the American League (Texas, Boston and Detroit). at Bos./NYY/Bal. ......................0-3/0-3/0-1 Average ............................... .211 (49-232) Bassitt allowed one run on three hits with no walks and nine Chicago is a combined 13-12 against Atlanta (2-1), Baltimore Home Runs ..............................................4 (2-2), Boston (2-4), New York (3-3) and Texas (4-2) in 2013. strikeouts over 7.0 IP … Kussmaul pitched a scoreless eighth Runs Scored/Allowed .......................22/43 inning, and Winiarski struck out two in a 1-2-3 ninth. ERA ...........................5.63 (35 ER/56.0 IP) YOUNG ARMS RACE CF Trayce Thompson went 2-4 with a home run and two RBI, Quality Starts ...........................................3 and Micah Johnson was 1-3 with a walk and stolen base. The White Sox starting rotation features fi ve pitchers who are 25 years or under … John Danks is the oldest at 28. RHP Chris Beck (2-2, 2.89) starts Game Two of the best-of-fi ve SOX VS. BALTIMORE (2-2) series in Birmingham. LHP Chris Sale (24), LHP Jose Quintana (24), LHP Hector Santiago (25), RHP Andre Rienzo (25), and Erik Johnson (23) Date H/R Result WP LP ROAD WOES have recorded a combined 3.51 ERA (201 ER/515.0 IP) in 83 7/2 H W, 5-2 Danks Hammel starts this season (50 quality starts). 7/3 H L, 2-4 O’Day Lindstrom Chicago 24-49 (.3287) on the road, the second-lowest winning 7/4 H W, 3-2 Reed Hunter percentage in the major leagues behind Miami (.3286). NO SHORTAGE OF DRAMA 9/5 R L, 1-3 Gonzalez Quintana The Sox have lost seven straight road games after winning 9/6 R 6:05 p.m. CT six of their previous seven … they also have recorded a pair of 107 of Chicago’s 139 games (77.0 percent) in 2013 have been 9/7 R 12:05 p.m. CT nine-game road losing streaks this season (5/18-6/4 and 7/13- decided by three runs or less. 9/8 R 12:35 p.m. CT 8/15), a fi ve-game streak (4/9-13) and four games (6/23-7/3).