the last time chicago white sox won the world series was 2016.
the last time chicago white sox won the world series was 2016.
when was the last time chicago white sox won the world series?
2016
the franchise's first manager was hall of famer clark griffith, who managed the team for two seasons and led them to the american league championship in their inaugural season. fielder jones, who managed the team from 1904 to 1908, led the team to its second american league championship and its first world series championship (no world series was played in 1901), defeating the white sox's crosstown rivals, the chicago cubs, in the 1906 world series. pants rowland and kid gleason managed the white sox to american league championships in 1917 and 1919, respectively, with the white sox winning the 1917 world series but losing the 1919 world series in the infamous black sox scandal. the white sox did not win another american league championship until 1959, with al lópez as their manager. the white sox lost the 1959 world series to the los angeles dodgers. the white sox next captured the american league pennant in 2005 and, with ozzie guillén as their manager, defeated the houston astros in the 2005 world series.
list of chicago white sox managers
on august 3, the white sox played a split doubleheader at detroit tigers, which the sox won 12–2 in afternoon game and lost 7–1 in night game. the afternoon game was a made-up game from may 17. the next day, edwin jackson made his white sox debut against his former teammate, in which he had 7.0 ip, 9 h, er, bb, 6 k. jackson took his first win with the white sox since moving from arizona against armando galarraga, whose perfect game was lost by the blown call by an umpire on june 2. jackson threw a no-hitter against the tampa bay rays in st. petersburg on june 25. also on the same day, chris sale, who was the white sox's 13th overall pick in the 2010 major league baseball draft, was added to the roster as a relief pitcher. sale was the first 2010 draft pick to be added to an mlb roster. after that game, the sox were 37–13 (.740) over their last 50 games since june 8, the best record in mlb during that span. on the next day, in the top of the ninth inning, paul konerko singled and mark kotsay hit a two-run home run which made it a 4–1 sox lead. but in the bottom of that frame, ryan raburn hit a game-tying three-run homer off of bobby jenks which tied the game at 4–4. then in the top of the 11th, mark kotsay hit a two-run triple on which brent lillibridge and andruw jones scored which made it 6–4 sox lead. in the bottom of the 11th with two outs, ryan raburn, who hit a game-tying three-run homer in the ninth, grounded out with men on first and second to end game for a white sox victory. sergio santos got his first major league victory after he pitched two innings following jenks, who blew his third save of the season. in that series, the white sox took three out of four from the tigers in comerica park, even though tigers had one of the best home records in the american league. on august 9 against the baltimore orioles at camden yards, it is the first time this season that the white sox pitcher (j. j. putz) allow a walk-off home run (to brian roberts) and lost 3-out-of-4 in a series with two walk-off extra-inning losses under the orioles' new manager buck showalter. the sox got four walk-off losses since the all-star break and were then 2–4 in walk-off games that season. for the orioles, they led the american league in walk-off wins at 9, including three under showalter. from august 10 to 12, the sox lost the series against the twins and fell to second place in the al central, one game back. also the sox lost the series at home for the first time since june 4–6 against the indians, snapping their seven straight home series wins. during the time between series losses at home, the sox were 20–3 while the sox swept four opponents. from august 17–19, the sox played a series against the rival twins at target field when the sox were three games behind the first-place twins prior to the first game. in the first game, the former white sox teammate jim thome hit a walk-off two-run homer off of matt thornton in the tenth inning to down the white sox 7–6. in the second game, the twins beat the sox again 7–6 with the final batter out. and then in the third game, the sox blew out the twins 11–0 to avoid a sweep. the sox snapped the twins 9-game home winning streak and they snapped their five-game losing streak at target field. on august 29, the white sox hosted frank thomas day at u.s. cellular field against the new york yankees. thomas' jersey was retired that day, along with his face put up on the legendary wall in right-center field next to billy pierce on his left and carlton fisk on his right, and also right under 'the catch' logo. on august 30 against the indians in cleveland, in the bottom of the ninth inning, the sox blew a three-run lead to tie the game at 6 thanks to his fourth blown save by jenks. then in the top of the eleventh inning, the sox scored four runs, all with two outs, including brent lillibridge's second home run of the season. the sox took the victory 10–6. they were now 2–1 when they had given up a three-run lead in the ninth. also on that same day, chicago acquired manny ramírez off waivers from the los angeles dodgers. the white sox finished with a record of 14–15 in august and 0–5 in walk-off games.
2010 chicago white sox season