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Meanwhile, up in the Sox broadcast booth, Harry Caray was hoping for a late-season attendance surge, knowing a $10,000 bonus would be his to spend if the team drew 850,000. The Tribune’s In the Wake of the News columnist David Condon implored his readers to “rush to the White Sox Park this afternoon to help boost the crowd and send Harry to Sully’s Saloon.”

Four “unintended targets,” were shot — one of them was critically hurt, said McDermott, who did not elaborate on their ages or genders. A fifth person, who McDermott called a “possible suspect,” was also shot and taken to a hospital. Responding officers rendered aid to at least one of the victims.

“He came here and stuck to who he was, he contributed and helped us win a lot of games,” Ross said. “When he came up and you lose some of the guys that we lost, it felt like a big blow, and he came up and really filled the gap for a long time and helped us stay on the path for a lot longer toward winning than probably anybody else we could have called up.

“He’s playing to his huge talent and he’s producing huge, he plays defense huge,” Sox manager Tony La Russa said Tuesday. “You understand how much we missed him and Eloy (Jiménez) in the first half (because of injuries). Can’t give our club enough credit for hanging in there. Having those two guys back, it’s a different looking team.