When asked about the most dominating run of starting pitching in Chicago White Sox history, most undoubtedly cite that extraordinary stretch of slinging the Pale Hose slung at the Los Angeles Angels of North-Central Orange County in 2005.
Four straight complete games, to close out an ALCS? Yikes.
But the White Sox’s hiring of Dave Duncan as a pitching consultant on Thursday brings to mind an even more dominant starting rotation: In 1983, the White Sox may have won ugly, but man, did they win a lot.
The 1983 season was Duncan’s first year as White Sox pitching coach (his third of five major league stops that comprised 32 seasons and, according to a White Sox statement, was the longest pitching coach tenure in baseball history).