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White Sox end pinch-hit RBI drought

At face value, the home run hit by the White Sox Dewayne Wise in the ninth inning of Thursday’s 9-5 loss to the Angels at U.S. Cellular Field looked to be little more than a footnote.

But Wise was pinch-hitting with two outs for Scott Podsednik when he connected on the 1-0 pitch from Kevin Jepsen, making this at-bat, in reality, a long-delayed and now somewhat historic moment in the context of the 2009 campaign. Wise’s line shot down the right-field line marked the first White Sox pinch-hit RBI of the season, at Game No. 109, the longest season-opening streak without a pinch-hit RBI by a team since the 1978 Red Sox went all 163 games missing out on this particular achievement

Click here to read the full article – By Scott Merkin of MLB.com

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August 7, 2009 Posted by GameSetMatch | Chicago White Sox, MLB | , , , , , | No Comments Yet