How Sox reps fared in the 2003 All-Star Game, which was held on this day in 2003 at US Cellular Field:
*ESTEBAN LOAIZA, PITCHER: Named to his first All-Star team and started … Joined Billy Pierce and Early Wynn as the only Sox pitchers to start an All-Star Game. … Marked the fifth time a White Sox pitcher started the All-Star Game (Wynn 1959, Pierce 1956, Pierce 1955, Pierce 1953). … Became the ninth pitcher and fourth American Leaguer to start an All-Star Game in his home park (Pedro Martinez Boston, 1999; Steve Rogers, Montreal, 1982; Whitey Ford, NY Yankees, 1960, first game; Don Drysdale, Los Angeles, 1959, second game; Curt Simmons, Philadelphia, 1952; Red Ruffing, NY Yankees, 1939; Johnny Vander Meer, Cincinnati, 1938; Carl Hubbell, NY Giants, 1934). … Pitched two innings and gave up one hit while striking out one. … Started the game by retiring Edgar Renteria on a ground out before giving up a single to right to Jim Edmonds. After Luis Pujols flied out to center, Loaiza ended the frame by getting Barry Bonds, facing an exaggerated shift, to line to right. In the second, Loaiza got Gary Sheffield to pop out to first, fanned Todd Helton and got Scott Rolen to pop out to first.
*MAGGLIO ORDONEZ, OUTFIELD: Named as a reserve to his fourth All-Star team and his fourth in the last five years. … Named to the team as a replacement for the injured Manny Ramirez. … Pinch-hit for Ichiro Suzuki with one out in the seventh inning and popped out to first base against Billy Wagner in his only at bat. … Ordonez finished the game in right field made three putouts. … Gloved the final out of the game on the warning track in becoming the third White Sox player to do that (Minoso 1957, Fox 1958). … Became the sixth player to make the All-Star Game’s final putout in his own ballpark (Kazuhiro Sasaki, Seattle, 2001; Bob Boone, Philadelphia, 1976; Hal Wagner, Boston Red Sox, 1946; Bill Dickey, New York Yankees, 1939; Ernie Lombardi, Cincinnati, 1938) and the first outfielder to accomplish the feat.
*CARL EVERETT, OUTFIELD: Named to his second All-Star team as a reserve. … Played in the game two weeks after being acquired by the White Sox from the Texas Rangers in a four-player swap. … Pinch-hit for Edgar Martinez in the A.L.’s decisive three-run eighth and grounded to first base, moving pinch-runner Melvin Mora to third, for the inning’s second out.