Stats of the Day: White Sox pitchers on historic pace

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Here are four interesting items from around the big leagues on Wednesday …

• Left-hander Jose Quintana (six innings, four hits) and three White Sox relievers combined on a four-hitter, as Chicago blanked Toronto, 4-0. Quintana’s effort followed Chris Sale’s on Tuesday, when Sale surrendered four hits and a run to the Blue Jays in eight innings. While Sale owns a 1.66 ERA in five starts, Quintana sits at 1.47 in his five. The most recent season in which a team had two left-handers with at least five starts each and an ERA below 2.00 in any March/April was 1966, when the Dodgers’ Sandy Koufax (1.75) and Claude Osteen (1.64) accomplished the feat. Wednesday’s performance lowered the team ERA to 2.24. The most recent season in which the White Sox finished March/April with an ERA lower than 2.50 was ’66, when they entered May with a 2.01 mark. No American League …

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