Today in White Sox History: June 6
Futility continues to rain down on the 2024 team
1925
White Sox star second baseman and future Hall-of-Famer Eddie Collins rapped out his 3,000th career hit, the only player ever to reach the milestone in a White Sox uniform.
It came in a 4-1 loss at Washington, off of Walter Johnson in the ninth inning, and was a double. That season, playing in 118 games Collins hit .346!
Collins finished his 25-year career with 3,315 hits — 2,094 of them with the White Sox.
2021
He got his first managerial win with the White Sox back in 1979, and for Tony La Russa it was a sense of deja vu. When the Sox shut out the Tigers at Guaranteed Rate Field, 3-0, it was win 2,764 in his Hall of Fame career. That put La Russa second on the all-time list, surpassing John McGraw.
In the postgame press conference, La Russa mentioned the fact that his career started in Chicago and now passing McGraw was in Chicago, 42 seasons later.
2024
The 2024 season saw the White Sox set, seemingly every other day, a new record for futility. On this day when the Red Sox hammered them, 14-2, at Guaranteed Rate Field, the White Sox set the franchise record with 14 consecutive losses. It broke the mark of 13, set in August 1924. Boston pounded out 24 hits (six for extra bases) in the rout.
The White Sox were outhit by 20 (24-4), just the third time in franchise history that had happened (also 1901 and 2002). Year of the Hamster had that fact, as well as the game story for South Side Sox.
Incredibly, this mark wouldn’t last even two months!