{"id":44402,"date":"2025-07-06T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44402"},"modified":"2025-07-06T03:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T08:57:04","slug":"bobby-jenks-2-time-all-star-closer-with-chicago-white-sox-dies-at-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44402","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Jenks, 2-time All-Star closer with Chicago White Sox, dies at 44"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">CHICAGO &#8212;&nbsp;Bobby Jenks, a two-time All-Star closer and World Series champion with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/chicago-white-sox\">Chicago White Sox<\/a>, has died, the team announced Saturday. He was 44.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The White Sox said Jenks died Friday in Sintra, Portugal, where he was being treated for adenocarcinoma, a form of stomach cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/whitesox\/status\/1941604582313857291\">Jenks helped the White Sox win the 2005 World Series<\/a>, saving four games in six appearances during the postseason. He was an All-Star in each of the next two seasons while saving 41 games in 2006 and 40 in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He retired 41 consecutive batters in 2007, matching a record for a reliever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cHe was embarrassing guys, good hitters, right away,\u201d former White Sox first baseman Paul Konerko said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/whitesox\/status\/1941604582313857291\">video tribute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jenks saved 173 games for the White Sox from 2005-10 before finishing his career with 19 appearances in 2011 for the Boston Red Sox. For his career, he was 16-20 with a 3.53 ERA and 351 strikeouts in 348 appearances, all in relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cHe and his family knew cancer would be his toughest battle, and he will be missed as a husband, father, friend and teammate,\u201d White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf said in a statement. \u201cHe will forever hold a special place in all our hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jenks is survived by his wife, Eleni Tzitzivacos, their two children, Zeno and Kate, and his four children from a prior marriage, Cuma, Nolan, Rylan and Jackson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cAs a teammate,\u201d former White Sox outfielder Aaron Rowand said, \u201che was the best.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/wireStory\/bobby-jenks-2-time-star-closer-world-series-123508027\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212;&nbsp;Bobby Jenks, a two-time All-Star closer and World Series champion with the&nbsp;Chicago White Sox, has died, the team announced Saturday. He was 44. The White Sox said Jenks died Friday in Sintra, Portugal, where he was being treated for adenocarcinoma, a form of stomach cancer. Jenks helped the White Sox win the 2005 World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":44403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5782],"tags":[31136,33865,1953],"class_list":["post-44402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ep","tag-bobby","tag-jenks","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44404,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44402\/revisions\/44404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}