On Wednesday, the White Sox announced that the naming rights for the stadium had been purchased by Guaranteed Rate, a mortgage lender based in Chicago. But he was quickly erased from the base paths when Tim Anderson grounded into a double play.NOTES: Phillies DH Ryan Howard’s Wednesday start at U.S. Cellular Field completed a run of appearances through all 30 active big league parks in a 13-year career, all with Philadelphia.
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The home runs by Hernandez leading off the third and Joseph in the sixth brought Shields’ total to 31 this season and 22 since the White Sox acquired him from San Diego on June 4.
Yes, you read correctly, it will be called Guaranteed Rate Field after the successful mortgage company that was started in 2000.
The White Sox took two-of-three in the last meeting in Chicago. Also, the team actually won a World Series under the U.S. Cellular Field name, which is an historically significant honor that not even the Cubs’ precious Wrigley Field possesses. “It really is a dream come true to have the Guaranteed Rate name on a hometown Chicago ballpark”.
“We love this city and its baseball fans, and couldn’t be happier to partner with an iconic team”, Ciardelli said in the release.
Upon the completion of existing naming rights payments to the White Sox, ISFA will receive all incremental naming rights revenue from this new agreement with Guaranteed Rate.
White Sox: RF Avisail Garcia (knee) was activated off the 15-day DL and went 1 for 4 with a double. Eickhoff has struggled on the road, losing seven of his first nine decisions before escaping with a victory on August 7 despite yielding five runs and a pair of homers in San Diego.Shields’ struggles with the home-run ball continued on Friday as the 34-year-old was taken deep three times and permitted seven runs for the second straight outing in a 9-0 rout by the Athletics. U.S. Cellular sold its Chicago market to competitor Sprint in 2012.
Beginning Nov. 1, it will be known as Guaranteed Rate Field. “This is just the latest example of ISFA deploying innovative strategies to protect IL taxpayers”. In under 40 years, the White Sox ballpark has gone under 3 name changes and I believe just like everyone else, this is by far the worst.
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Shields worked five or fewer innings in his first four starts, including 1 2/3 innings on June 18 when he was rocked for eight runs on seven hits in Chicago’s 13-2 loss at Cleveland.
