The Chicago White Sox have been the worst staff within the MLB by means of the primary 2+ months of the 2024 season, and so they’ve reached what they will solely hope is a low level. The staff has the worst document in baseball (15-48) by a large 6.5 recreation margin coming into the weekend, and have now misplaced probably the most consecutive video games within the franchise’s 123-year historical past.
White Sox Present Shedding Streak Is Longest In Franchise Historical past
Chuck Garfien after the White Sox misplaced their 14th recreation in a row, a 14-2 loss to the Purple Sox.
“The dropping postgame reveals are all the time probably the most entertaining. We assure you, this can be extra entertaining than the sh–the sport you simply watched.” pic.twitter.com/P6Zetbv3AU
— Terrible Asserting (@awfulannouncing) June 7, 2024
Again on Might fifteenth, the White Sox had been an abysmal 14-30, however they weren’t the worst staff within the majors. The Miami Marlins had a worse document 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, dwelling 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 sequence.
How Shut Are They To MLB Information?
The Chicago White Sox are at the moment on tempo to win simply 38 video games in 2024.
You recognize what means? In the event that they keep the course, the #Mets 1962 document of 40-120 would not be the worst ever.
We will see!
— Michael Baron (@michaelgbaron) June 7, 2024
They’ve an extended strategy 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” instances, 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 received’t get any simpler for the White Sox if they’re unable to select up a win over the weekend in opposition to the Purple Sox. They are going to spend every week straight on the highway beginning in Seattle on Monday, which is included in 10 of their subsequent 13 video games being performed away from Chicago.
