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White Sox Lose 14th Straight, Longest Streak In Franchise Historical past

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The Chicago White Sox have been the worst workforce within the MLB by the primary 2+ months of the 2024 season, and so they’ve reached what they will solely hope is a low level. The workforce has the worst report in baseball (15-48) by a large 6.5 sport margin getting into the weekend, and have now misplaced essentially the most consecutive video games within the franchise’s 123-year historical past.

White Sox Present Dropping Streak Is Longest In Franchise Historical past

Again on Might fifteenth, the White Sox had been an abysmal 14-30, however they weren’t the worst workforce within the majors. The Miami Marlins had a worse report at that time, and Chicago was solely a few video games again of the Rockies and Angels. Since then, they’ve misplaced 18 of their final 19 video games, together with every of the final 14, to solidify themselves because the league’s worst.

The 14-game skid is the longest within the MLB this season, and breaks the White Sox franchise mark that was set again in 1924. They rank final in almost each possible offensive statistical class, and are within the bottom-5 in pitching classes like ERA, runs, residence runs, and walks. If it wasn’t for his or her lone win in Toronto on Might twenty first, Chicago would have been swept in six straight collection.

How Shut Are They To MLB Data?

They’ve a protracted approach to go earlier than they begin threatening any long-standing MLB marks. The longest dropping streak within the historical past of baseball occurred in 1889 when the Louisville Colonels misplaced 26 straight, adopted by the Cleveland Spiders ten years later who misplaced 24 in a row.

In additional “fashionable” occasions, the Philadelphia Phillies misplaced 23 straight again in 1961, and the Baltimore Orioles dropped 21 in 1988. The longest dropping streaks of the twenty first century belong to the 2005 Kansas Metropolis Royals and 2021 Baltimore Orioles, every of whom misplaced 19 in a row.

Issues gained’t get any simpler for the White Sox if they’re unable to select up a win over the weekend in opposition to the Crimson Sox. They’ll spend per week straight on the street beginning in Seattle on Monday, which is included in 10 of their subsequent 13 video games being performed away from Chicago.



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