Overview
- The White Sox revealed a bronze statue of Mark Buehrle in the right-field concourse at Guaranteed Rate Field, capturing his signature pitching motion.
- Buehrle’s wife and children joined former teammates, including Jermaine Dye and A.J. Pierzynski, to help unveil the statue during the 20th anniversary weekend.
- The new sculpture stands alongside Harold Baines’s statue as a tribute to franchise icons.
- Chicago introduced black-and-white ’45’ patches to honor Bobby Jenks, who died at 44 of stomach cancer in Sintra, Portugal.
- Jenks, the closer who recorded the final out in the 2005 World Series, will be remembered on the field for the remainder of the season.