The 2011 White Sox schedule was revealed at 7:00 pm Central Time on September 14, 2010[1] along with every other team in Major League Baseball.
On December 2, 2010, the White Sox signed a new slugger Adam Dunn from the Washington Nationals for a 4yr/$56M contract.
[4] On December 15, the White Sox acquired RHP Jesse Crain from the Minnesota Twins and offered a 3yr/$13M deal.
Infielders Outfielders Coaches The Sox opened the 2011 season at Cleveland with a 15–10 victory over the Indians on April 1.
On April 5 at Kansas City Royals, the Sox scored four runs in the first inning but they would not hold on to the lead.
After the loss, Adam Dunn had his appendix removed and he'll miss five games, but he told Ozzie Guillén that he wants to play sooner.
Edwin Jackson struck out 13 to set his new career high and most strikeouts by the White Sox pitcher in the home opener in club history.
In the top of the ninth inning, the Sox committed two errors which led to five unearned runs including a three-run homer by Dan Johnson off of Matt Thornton.
The next series against the Oakland A's, the Sox lost two out of three with the only win being a walk-off home run in 10th inning by Alexei Ramírez in Game 2.
The Sox split the series against the Yankees at New York, including two straight plays by Brent Lillibridge off the bats of Alex Rodríguez and Robinson Canó to end the game on April 26.
The Sox lost the first two games of the four-game series against the Baltimore Orioles to finish April with a 10–18 record.
Then the Sox went on to the west coast in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Oakland, finishing 6–3 in that nine-game road trip.
In the Sox half of the 11th inning, Brent Morel hit a lead-off double but the team did not score.
In the Blue Jays' half of 14th inning with starter Gavin Floyd in relief, a leadoff hitter Corey Patterson hit a walk-off homer which ended the game with a final score of 9–8.
Finally on June 6, John Danks outdueled Michael Pineda to take the first win of the season by beating the Mariners 3–1.
In the finale of this three-game series, Carlos Quentin hit his game-tying two-run homer to tie the game 4–4 in eighth inning.
In the ninth inning with two outs, nobody one, and 0–2 count, Sox led 5–3, Josh Willingham walked and then deteriorated.
Several at-bats later, Scott Sizemore (who just acquired from Detroit couple days prior) hit his game-winning three-run double to defeat the Sox 7–5 as Sergio Santos blows his second save of the season.
In that game in the eighth inning, Brent Lillibridge made his game-saving home run robbing catch off the bat of Coco Crisp with runner on first.
In the opener of this series, Edwin Jackson faced Daniel Hudson who switched teams between Sox and D-backs last season.
In the opener of the last season's rematch with the Nats, in the ninth inning, Mark Teahen hit a game-tying three-run homer to tie the game at 3.
In the finale of this series, in the 7th inning with one out and one on, Paul Konerko appeared to hit a GW two-run homer but the wind kept it in the ballpark and Jerry Hairston Jr. made a catch in left field.
The Sox would then head to Denver for the first time since 2005, taking two out of three from the Rox, including a split in extra-inning games.
During the off day on July 27 before the series against Boston, the Sox traded away Edwin Jackson and Mark Teahen to Toronto Blue Jays for Jason Frasor and Zach Stewart.
In a third game of this dreadful four-game series, the Sox allowed a season high 18 runs, including 13 in the first three innings.
In the finale of that series, Dayán Viciedo called up from Triple-A Charlotte to play right field as Carlos Quentin went to the 15-day DL.
Later on that day in the third game of a four-game set against the Indians, Alex Ríos hit a walk-off grand slam in the 10th inning for a 7–3 Sox victory.
Then the Sox got ugly, they were swept by Detroit in a three-game series at home in September for the second consecutive year.
In the finale of that series, the Sox led 5–2 going to the 9th inning and then Sergio Santos suffered his 6th blown save of the season by giving up two home runs and preventing rookie Dylan Axelrod from picking up his first major league win.
In the opener of that series against the Blue Jays, Dylan Axelrod picked up his first major league win, going 6 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 6 K in a 4–3 Sox victory.