Lip Man 1
04-03-2007, 10:31 AM
The first 'five spot' of the season...
April 4, 1982 - One of the most highly anticipated opening day’s in franchise history gets snowed out. The Sox were set to host Boston and the organization was expecting a crowd of around 50,000. That got torpedoed when a blizzard hammered the entire Midwest cancelling games for days. In fact the season wouldn’t open until April 11th in New York.
April 4, 1983 - The same night North Carolina State was upsetting Houston in the NCAA basketball tournament, the Sox opened their championship season dropping a 5 - 3 game to Texas. The Sox scored three times in the top of the first but were handcuffed after that. Errors by rookies Scott Fletcher and Greg Walker were costly to LaMarr Hoyt. The Sox would drop all three games to the Rangers but still rebounded to win 99 games and win the division by a record twenty games.
April 4, 1988 - It was Kenny Williams’ one moment in the sun. On opening day Williams belts a two run 5th inning home run off the Angels Mike Witt to help the Sox to an 8 - 5 win. Williams would drive in thee RBI’s on the afternoon.
April 4, 1994 - The bittersweet shortened season started in Canada with a rematch of the 1993 A.L.C.S. It was Toronto winning this Opening Day 7 - 3 blasting Jack McDowell, the reigning Cy Young Award winner, just as they did twice in the post season the year before. But by August 11th the Sox were rolling on all cylinders. That’s when the season came to a staggering end because of the labor impasse between the MLBPA and the owners. At the time of the shut down, the Sox were leading the division and had the 3rd best record in baseball.
April 4, 2005 - The World Championship season got off to a great start as a packed house saw Mark Buehrle and Shingo Takatsu shut out Cleveland 1 - 0 in a game that took less then two hours!
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Lip
April 4, 1982 - One of the most highly anticipated opening day’s in franchise history gets snowed out. The Sox were set to host Boston and the organization was expecting a crowd of around 50,000. That got torpedoed when a blizzard hammered the entire Midwest cancelling games for days. In fact the season wouldn’t open until April 11th in New York.
April 4, 1983 - The same night North Carolina State was upsetting Houston in the NCAA basketball tournament, the Sox opened their championship season dropping a 5 - 3 game to Texas. The Sox scored three times in the top of the first but were handcuffed after that. Errors by rookies Scott Fletcher and Greg Walker were costly to LaMarr Hoyt. The Sox would drop all three games to the Rangers but still rebounded to win 99 games and win the division by a record twenty games.
April 4, 1988 - It was Kenny Williams’ one moment in the sun. On opening day Williams belts a two run 5th inning home run off the Angels Mike Witt to help the Sox to an 8 - 5 win. Williams would drive in thee RBI’s on the afternoon.
April 4, 1994 - The bittersweet shortened season started in Canada with a rematch of the 1993 A.L.C.S. It was Toronto winning this Opening Day 7 - 3 blasting Jack McDowell, the reigning Cy Young Award winner, just as they did twice in the post season the year before. But by August 11th the Sox were rolling on all cylinders. That’s when the season came to a staggering end because of the labor impasse between the MLBPA and the owners. At the time of the shut down, the Sox were leading the division and had the 3rd best record in baseball.
April 4, 2005 - The World Championship season got off to a great start as a packed house saw Mark Buehrle and Shingo Takatsu shut out Cleveland 1 - 0 in a game that took less then two hours!
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