Today in White Sox History: April 30
Cleveland pitchers get battered by South Side bats
Al Simmons anchored a White Sox lineup that exploded for 20 runs on this day, 92 years ago. | (Photo by Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images) 1922 White Sox pitcher Charlie Robertson fired a perfect game, beating the Tigers, 2-0, in Detroit. Robertson’s perfect game only took one hour and 55 minutes to complete.
The 26-year-old rookie struck out six, in just the fourth start of his career. In the second inning, Earl Sheely drove in both Sox runs with a single. As proof of Robertson’s mastery on this day, only eight of 14 balls in the air were popups in some form, an indication that Detroit wasn’t seeing the hurler well at all.
The Tigers, for their part, accused Robertson of doctoring the ball with grease or oil; unsurprisingly, player-manager Ty Cobb was the most vocal in protest. Robertson became the third pitcher of the 20th Century to throw a perfect game. It was the first perfect game in 14 seasons — and there wouldn’t be another regular season perfecto for more than 42 years (Jim Bunning, 1964).
(Don Larsen threw a perfect game in the 1956 World Series . ) Robertson never had a winning record in eight seasons in Chicago, compiling a White Sox career of 49-80 and 4. 44 ERA.
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