» June 24, 1901: After Cincy loses 8-0 in the opener of a twinbill, the Reds Bill Phillips sets several records in game two as he gives up 19 runs and 22 hits at Philadelphia, losing, 19-1. He faces a record 55 batters, with 49 official at bats-both records for the 20th century. Phils pitcher Doc White has four hits, including an inside-the-park homer.
» August 20, 1901: Umpire Bob Emslie becomes ill before the 2nd game of the Superbas-Phils twin bill and Phils P Al Orth and Superbas C Jim McGuire fill in for him. However, it is a close game, and Orth is needed as a PH in the 9th. Doc White then becomes the 2nd umpire as Orth hits a single and scores a run. Brooklyn holds on for a 3-2 win.
» July 21, 1902: At Brooklyn, the Superbas maul the Phillies, 10–1, nicking Doc White
for 14 hits. Doc gets his due in the 4-run 5th inning when he strikes 4
batters out, the first pitcher to strike out 4 in an inning since 1888 and the first to do it at 60'6" (the record books list Wiltse in 1906 as the
first this century). Dahlen and Irwin strike out while 2 runs score. Wheeler’s swinging 3rd strike gets past Dooin with Hearne (Ahearn in the box
score) scoring. Kitson singles and Sheckard strikes out for the 4th K. White fans 5 in the game.
» September 30, 1904: Doc White, White Sox lefthander, pitches his 5th shutout in 18 days, defeating New York. Of his seven shutouts for the year, six come in September.
» October 2, 1904: Doc White's scoreless streak ends at 45 innings, when the New York Highlanders score in the first; White then pitches another eight shutout innings to win, 7-1.
» September 6, 1905: After 6th-place Detroit beats the White Sox four times in two days, Chicago turns the tables by whitewashing the Tigers twice today. The Sox win the opener, 2-0, behind Doc White, then Frank "Piano Mover" Smith, who threw two one-hitters earlier in the year, tosses a 15-0 no-hitter in the 2nd game. This is the most lopsided no-hitter in history and also the 2nd time that the Sox have no-hit the Tigers: Jimmy "Nixey" Callahan accomplishing the feat in 1902. Callahan plays LF and bats cleanup in today's gem, collecting two hits. The two wins today keep the Sox four games in back of the leading A's.
» September 26, 1905: Chicago White Sox P Ed Walsh hurls two complete-game victories over Boston, winning by scores of 10-5 and 3-1. When Doc White leaves the first game without retiring a batter in the first inning, Walsh comes in without warming up. He gives up five runs in the first, then blanks Boston the rest of the way.
» August 2, 1906: While the Athletics, crippled by injuries, falter, Doc White launches the White Sox on a 19-game winning streak (longest in AL history) with a 3-0 win over Boston. The streak, interrupted only by a 0-0 tie with New York, catapults Chicago from 4th place to first in 10 days. Doc White wins six of the 19; Ed Walsh, 7. Boston, too, starts a more dubious streak of four straight shutout losses. They lose tomorrow, 4-0, 1-0 on the 4th, and 4-0 on the 6th. This ties the mark set earlier in the year by the Boston Nationals, and no team will top them.
» October 10, 1906: The Cubs jump on Doc White early, and run (5 SBs) to a 7-1 victory. The highlight of the game is Ed Reulbach's no-hit bid broken by Jiggs Donahue's single in the 7th. The next WS one-hitter will come in 1945, by another Cub-Claude Passeau.
» October 14, 1906: The Sox jump on Three Finger Brown for seven runs in the first two innings, and coast behind Doc White to a 7-1 Series-ending victory. The Cubs' losers' share is $439.50, the lowest ever.
» September 11, 1907: Chicago's Doc White blanks the Browns 2-0. However, his one base on balls ends his AL record run of 65 1/3 IP without issuing a walk. He will win a career high 27 games and walk only 38 in 291 innings pitched.
» August 14, 1908: The National's Walter Johnson hurls a 1-0 victory over the White Sox, allowing just two hits, the first a 9th inning single by Sox P Doc White.
» October 6, 1908: Having been in 13 of the last 16 games, Ed Walsh does not start the White Sox finale against Detroit. Doc White is hit hard in the 7–0 loss that gives the pennant to the Tigers. Bill Donovan pitches a two hitter.
» April 20, 1910: Cleveland's Addie Joss pitches his 2nd no-hitter 1–0 over Chicago. Joss's 10 assists help prevent any infield spoilers. Terry Turner's 6th inning double off Doc White scores the Naps only run.
» September 5, 1910: Jack Coombs begins a streak of 53 shutout innings, topping Doc White's 46 of 1904. Three years later Walter Johnson will top Coombs.
» October 12, 1910: With the AL season ending a week earlier than the NL, the champion A's tune up with a 5-game series against an AL all-star team, which includes Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Doc White, Ed Walsh, and Walter Johnson. The A's drop four out of five to the all-stars, but Connie Mack will later state, "Those games, more than anything else, put the Athletics in a condition to outclass the National League champions."
» May 7, 1911: Ty Cobb goes 4-for-5 and drives in the tying and winning runs to help Detroit beat lefty Doc White and the Chicago White Sox, 5–4.
» June 8, 1911:
In the White Sox game against the host Hilltoppers in New York, pitcher Russ Ford hits Sox SS Roy Corhan on the head with a pitch (as noted by Retrosheet). New York manager Hal Chase allows Ping Bodie as a courtesy runner for Corhan, even though Bodie is already in the lineup. In the bottom of the frame, Bodie returns to CF, with Lee Tannehill moving from 1B to SS. Pitcher Doc White finishes at 1B.
» May 31, 1968: Don Drysdale's shutout streak apparently ends when Dick Dietz is hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and no outs in the 9th inning, but umpire Harry Wendelstedt rules Dietz did not try to avoid the pitch. Coach Herman Franks argues the call so long he is tossed by Wendelstedt. Dietz then pops out, and the next two batters make out. Los Angeles wins, 3–0, and Drysdale's 5th straight shutout ties the major-league record set in 1904 by Doc White.
» June 4, 1968: With his 6th consecutive shutout, 5–0 over the Pirates at Los Angeles, Don Drysdale establishes two new ML records. He tops Doc White's 64-year-old mark of five shutouts, and with 54 scoreless innings he breaks Carl Hubbell's National League string by 4 1/3, set in 1933.
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