[With an off-day that’s turned into a look back to 2008 on the 13th anniversary of the Blackout Game, here is Michael Kenny’s look back, originally published on Jan. 9, 2018 and part of his 2008 10th anniversary season series.]
September 30, 2008. The White Sox have just beaten the Detroit Tigers in their final game of the regular season to match the Minnesota Twins with an 88-74 record. Now, the two teams played a single game to decide their postseason fate.
The game is set to take place in Chicago, after the White Sox won one of a series of provisional coin tosses to decide the home team for any hypothetical one-game playoff.