Good morning!
When Mike Clevinger helped to notch a 6-1 victory over the Nationals on Monday evening, it marked the first time this season a White Sox pitcher has logged a complete game. It was, in fact, just the third time a White Sox starting pitcher has logged a complete game over the past two seasons (entering Friday night's game, at least; ::checks notes::, ::sees that it's Touki Toussaint::; (ed. note: it was a fine effort)).
Obviously, expectations surrounding starting pitching have changed over the past decade-plus, but I still think it is somewhat remarkable (and depressing) that the Sox can't even fluke into a couple every now and again. At any rate, today's Sporcle isn't quite on the level of asking you to identify every complete game logged by a White Sox pitcher. No, it's a bit more specific than that: including perfect games and no-hitters, which White Sox pitchers throughout franchise history have recorded a complete game allowing 1 or fewer hits? That's 86 names, how many can you get? Good luck!
Quiz Parameters
- I’ve allotted 10 minutes for completion attempts.
- For hints, I’ve provided the date of the game and the opponent.
Useless information to amaze, annoy, confuse, and/or confound your friends and family:
- No hard-luck losers here: the White Sox are a sparkling 86-0 when their starting pitcher accomplishes this. The closest the team has come to a loss was a 1-0 victory over Cleveland in 1967 which took 17 innings to complete. (The Sox starter went 11)
- The two teams most victimized by Sox starters: Cleveland and various iterations of Washington, 12 times apiece.
- The oldest player to accomplish this was age 40, while the youngest was 21.
- The oldest player to accomplish this in MLB history was 44 and was (who else?) Nolan Ryan, in his no-hitter against Toronto on 5/1/1991. (Ryan holds 5 of the 14 instances of a 40+ age pitcher doing this)
- The youngest in MLB history? That would be Von McDaniel pitching for the 1957 Cardinals against the Pirates, at age 18 years, 101 days.
All data from stathead.com
