If you thought 46 years was a long time between postseason home victories, bear in mind that it had been 88 years since the first–and only–time the White Sox had gone up 2-0 in a playoff series (this sentence as published has been corrected in this text).
In 1917, the year of the White Sox’s last world championship, they took a two-games-to-none lead over the New York Giants en route to winning the World Series in six games.
Eddie Cicotte–who the White Sox had acquired from Boston in 1912–pitched a seven-hitter, Shano Collins went 3-for-4 and Happy Felsch hit a solo home run in the Sox’s 2-1 victory before 32,000 fans in Game 1.
In Game 2, Urban “Red” Faber pitched an eight-hitter, Shoeless Joe Jackson went 3-for-3 with two RBIs and Buck Weaver was 3-for-4 with one RBI as the Sox collected 14 hits and won 7-2.
But Cicotte, Felsch, Jackson, Weaver and four teammates were banned from baseball for their parts in throwing the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds–the infamous Black Sox scandal.