The White Sox dropped their third straight game in what was a bizarre ending to the 2-1 loss. With the bases loaded, catcher Ray Schalk stopped reliever Dave Danforth mid-windup and that resulted in the go ahead run scored on a balk.
The White Sox not only lost back to back games for the first time this year, but it was also the first time they’d been shutout as well. The hitters were held to just seven hits and Nemo Liebold had three of them, all singles.
The White Sox four game winning streak came to an end and it was Eddie Cicotte who lost his first game of the season in a 4-1 loss to the Indians. Cicotte gave up four runs in six innings.
Still, in present day, nearly 80 years after the fact, baseball fans talk about the BlackSox scandal with a lowered voice and an embarrassed look in their eyes.
While seven of the eight "BlackSox" went so far as confessing, one player seemed to be relatively innocent -- "Shoeless" Joe Jackson.
The BlackSox scandal of 1919 started out as a few gamblers trying to get rich, and turned into one of the biggest, and easily the darkest, event in baseball history.
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