Former Chicago White Sox closer to Bobby Jenks crosses after a battle with cancer
The former Chicago White Sox closer to Bobby Jenks passed away on Saturday of 44 years after the liquid battle with adenocarcinoma (stomach cancer).
Two-sacrificial champions All stars and the world series have consumed closer to six of their seven major league seasons with White Sox.
JENKS is 2007. related to the record of the main league who previously held Jim Barr (1972) with 41 consecutive pensions. Two years later, his teammate Mark Buhrle He would violate that record with 45.
JENKS was a Rookie Sox for White Sox during the World Series, throwing without a hit, a one-time Gang in his Debine of the Great League, 6. July 2005. Years.
He continued to expel the final from 2005. years as Rookie – marking the white Sox first championship in 88 years.
The next two seasons were history in making for yanks in white socks.
His 41 saves in 2006. and 40. in 2007. year would be the third and the fourth seases in one season in the entire white history of SOX, it will also indicate only two years to be elected to the American All-Star.
After seven years in the MLB, with the last season it is rough for Boston Red SoxJenks finished his career with a 3.53 earned average, 351 strikes in 357.1. Total innings, and 173 saves total (on average 34 per season for its career).
Jenks’ things may have been in front of your time. He could throw Fastball as a fast (102 mph) like Aroldis Chapman and could buckle knees for the dough with the Krivebal we saw with the pitchers like Clayton Kershaw.
But first of all, he was a player on all the land that Chicago lovers and wonders like to look at the embankment.
“We lost an icon of the White Family Sox today”, said the white Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf. “He and his family knew that the cancer would be his hardest battle and he would be lacking a husband, father, friend and teammate. She will always keep a special place in all our hearts.”
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