October 14, 1906: Triumph of the Hitless Wonders
#CHICAGO WHITE SOX PLAY BY PLAY SERIES#
With everyone back on the field and the Sox still alive, Pablo Ozuna ran for Pierzynski, stole second and scored on Joe Crede’s double because of Pierzynski’s alertness coupled with Eddings’ subtle interpretation of the rules, Chicago avoided a potential 0-2 ALCS hole and won the next three games to take the series in five. But Pierzynski made it to first before the Angels realized what he was up to, because they had interpreted Eddings’ strike three gesture to be a third out call the umpire would later clarify the motion as his “strike three mechanic” at work. As the Angels began jogging off the field, Pierzynski looked behind him, then belatedly took off for first base, sensing that home plate umpire Doug Eddings hadn’t called the third out because the pitch had hit the ground before catcher Josh Paul could grab it in his glove, meaning Paul had to tag Pierzynski to complete the out. Pierzynski to send the game into extra innings.
Angel reliever Kelvim Escobar retired the first two Chicago batters and appeared to strike out catcher A.J.
Having lost the first game at home, the White Sox struggled through Game Two before their own fans and reached the bottom of the ninth tied at 1-1. October 12, 2005: The Strike Mechanicįor the most part, the White Sox had it easy during their 2005 championship run-but their most tenuous juncture of the postseason avoided becoming even more so thanks to a controversial moment in the ninth inning of ALCS Game Two against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Likely intentional faux pas by the Black Sox Eight continued throughout the series, won in eight games by the Reds (it was the first of three straight years in which a best-of-nine format would be in play), and the fix-accompanied by its sensational exposure to the general public a year later-put an immediate end to the White Sox’ chronic dominance during the deadball era and caused long-term damage to the franchise. Chick Gandil, another Black Sox participant, committed a seventh-inning error that allowed an unearned run to score, but by then the Reds were already in control and on their way to an easy 9-1 triumph. The Reds proceeded to score five in the inning, all before Cicotte was removed. But that notion, along with Cicotte, self-destructed in the Reds’ fourth with two outs and one on, Greasy Neale, a future football star, hit a comebacker to Cicotte-who hesitated and threw late to second, resulting in an infield hit that should have been a double play.
Rath scored after getting hit-but beyond that, there were no overt signs early on that the Black Sox conspirators were laying down, as Cicotte otherwise kept the Reds in check through three innings and fellow Black Sox conspirator Happy Felsch singled in a second-inning run to tie the game.
It wasn’t an errant throw but a signal Cicotte was letting gamblers whom he and seven other members of the White Sox had been huddling with for weeks know that they were proceeding with fixing the World Series for vast sums of money, an audacious protest to the minimum wages they were forced to receive from Chicago owner Charles Comiskey. On his first pitch in Game One of the 1919 World Series, White Sox starter Eddie Cicotte hit Cincinnati’s Morrie Rath square in the back.
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