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The wins keep coming for White Sox.(Chicago Tribune)
DETROIT_After shutting out Detroit 7-0 Sunday for his 17th win, Mark Buehrle was asked if he ever heard of Claude "Lefty" Williams, the former left-hander for the infamous team known as the Black Sox.
"You mean the scandal?" Buehrle replied. "That was before my time."
Williams pitched only five years for the White Sox before being banned from baseball with seven of his teammates after the 1920 season for allegedly throwing the 1919 World Series to Cincinnati.
For the last 82 years, Williams' record for highest winning percentage in Sox history (.648) was virtually untouched. But with a 37-18 record in his third season with the Sox, Buehrle has vaulted over Williams for the top spot with a .673 winning percentage. He's third among active major-leaguers behind Cy Young winners Pedro Martinez (.697) and Randy Johnson (.672).
The Sox have won five straight for the first time this season, and four straight since Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf criticized the team in a meeting with players Wednesday.
Did Reinsdorf's talk fuel the streak?
"It wasn't really like he was getting on us," Buehrle said. "He was just saying stuff about next year, that there are going to be rule changes, maybe just saying we were stealing money from the fans because of the effort. I don't think it has anything to do with (the streak)."
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