TONIGHT’S GAME

WHITE SOX’S

FREDDY GARCIA

vs.

ASTROS’

BRANDON BACKE

Minute Maid Park, Houston, 5:30 PDT

TV -- Channel 11. Radio -- 710.

Update -- Garcia was once traded for the guy who was supposed to get the Astros to their first World Series, one of three prospects sent to the Seattle in 1998 for Randy Johnson. Backe was once traded for Chicago infielder Geoff Blum.

--BILL SHAIKIN