page_title: Guaranteed Rate Field
section_title: 2000s
hierarchical_section_title: Guaranteed Rate Field / Notable games/events / 2000s
caption_attribution_description: English: The 2008 MLB AL Central Tiebreaker Game was played by the Minnesota Twins against the Chicago White Sox on 9-30-08 at US Cellular Field in Chicago. The White Sox defeated the Twins 1-0 and secured a place in the playoffs.
context_page_description: Guaranteed Rate Field is a baseball park located in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. The ballpark serves as the home ballpark for Major League Baseball's Chicago White Sox. The facility is owned by the state of Illinois through the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, and is operated by the White Sox. The park opened for the 1991 season, after the White Sox had spent 81 years at the original Comiskey Park. It also opened with the name Comiskey Park but was renamed U.S. Cellular Field in 2003 after U.S. Cellular purchased the naming rights at $68 million over 20 years. The current name was announced on October 31, 2016, after Guaranteed Rate, a private residential mortgage company located in Chicago, purchased the naming rights to the ballpark in a 13-year deal.
  The stadium is situated just to the west of the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago's Armour Square neighborhood, adjacent to the more famous neighborhood of Bridgeport. It was built directly across 35th Street from old Comiskey Park, which was demolished to make room for a parking lot that serves the venue.
context_section_description: April 22, 2000: The White Sox and the Detroit Tigers end up in two brawls in the game. One lasts for almost 30 minutes and sees eight players from both sides are ejected along with Sox manager Jerry Manuel. A record number of players would be fined and subsequently suspended. One of the more lingering memories is Sox relief pitcher Keith Foulke suffering a gash on his face courtesy of a sucker punch from the side. The Sox win the game 14–6 and use it as a rallying point for the rest of the season. Attendance: (16,410)
  June 19, 2000: The White Sox make baseball history when they begin selling vegetarian hot dogs during games. The Sox play the Cleveland Indians and defeated them 6–1. Attendance: (43,062)
  May 2, 2002: Mike Cameron of the Seattle Mariners, a former White Sox player, blasts four solo home runs to tie a Major League record to help the Mariners win 15–4. The Mariners score 10 runs in the first inning and all of Cameron's home runs are hit within the first six innings. Cameron flies out to the warning track in the ninth, just missing the record-breaking number of homers in a game. Attendance: (12,891)
  September 13, 2002: The Rolling Stones play the first concert in stadium history while on their Licks Tour.
  September 19, 2002: Kansas City Royals first base coach Tom Gamboa is attacked on the field by two fans, William Ligue, Jr. and son, during a game against the White Sox. The father and son, highly intoxicated, run onto the field unprovoked, tackled Gamboa, and throw several punches before being restrained by players and security. Ligue, Jr. was later found to have been possessing a knife.  Gamboa suffered permanent hearing loss as a result of the attack.  The Royals defeated the White Sox 2–1. Attendance: (10,354)
  July 15, 2003: The park hosts the 74th All-Star Game, the first one having been played at Comiskey Park in 1933. Esteban Loaiza of the White Sox is the American League starting pitcher. Jim Edmonds gets the game's first hit, a first-inning single. Carlos Delgado drives in the first run with a third-inning single off the NL's Randy Wolf. After a five-run fifth by the National League stars, the AL scores three in the eighth against Éric Gagné. A 1-2-3 ninth pitched by Keith Foulke seals a 7-6 AL victory over the NL. White Sox stars in the game include Loaiza, Magglio Ordóñez and Carl Everett. Attendance: (47,609)
  July 25, 2003: Frank Thomas hits his 400th career home run against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to help the Sox win 7–2. Attendance: (22,617)
  September 13–14, 2004: U.S. Cellular Field hosts two games between the Florida Marlins and the Montreal Expos, due to Hurricane Ivan in Florida. The Marlins sweep by scores of 6–3 and 8–6. The series would return to Florida to finish the last three games, with the Expos taking two. Game 1 attendance: (4,003), Game 2 attendance: (5,457)
  April 16, 2005: Pitcher Mark Buehrle finishes a game against the Seattle Mariners in only 1 hour and 39 minutes, giving up one run and three hits (all to Ichiro Suzuki), and backed by two White Sox runs, both homers by Paul Konerko. In the game, he throws just 106 pitches. Subtracting the time spent between innings, the game took only 63½ minutes to play. Attendance: (25,931)
  August 7, 2005: A life-sized bronze statue of catcher Carlton Fisk is unveiled on the center-field concourse behind section 164. The White Sox defeat the Seattle Mariners 3–1. Attendance: (35,706)
  October 4, 2005: Catcher A. J. Pierzynski's two home runs and a double carry Chicago to an easy 14–2 rout of the Boston Red Sox in Game 1 of their 2005 American League Division Series. Attendance: (40,717)
  October 11, 2005: Having swept the ALDS, the White Sox host Game 1 of the 2005 American League Championship Series. No runs are scored beyond the fourth inning as the Anaheim Angels take the series opener 3–2. It will be the last and only Sox loss of the entire 2005 postseason.  Attendance: (40,659)
  October 12, 2005: After a ceremonial first pitch thrown by White Sox fan U.S. Senator Barack Obama, a tight game is won 2-1 by the Sox in the ninth inning on a co
caption: The 2008 AL Central tiebreaker game (better known as the "blackout game") as the Sox shutout the Twins 1–0
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