The Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB) crowned themselves in their “Season of Shame” (ESPN). The 4-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers was the club’s 121st defeat of the year; no other team has been so bad in the league’s “modern era” (since 1901).
“Of course it’s crap,” pitcher Garrett Crochet said of the inglorious negative record, “we put ourselves in this position early on. We’re where we are because of the way we played, and that’s crap. But that’s it everything.”
The White Sox drew level with the 1962 New York Mets on Sunday with their 120th defeat (2:4 at the San Diego Padres). After that, Chicago surprisingly won three games in a row against the Los Angeles Angels, but it happened in Detroit. The guests now play at the Tigers twice more, then the bad season is finally over.
There had already been two low points this year. With a series of 14 consecutive defeats, the team set the franchise negative record at the beginning of June and broke this mark in August with 21 defeats in a row. Only the 1988 Baltimore Orioles had been this bad in the American League.
The fact that the Cleveland Spiders finished their 1899 season with 20 wins and 134 losses should hardly be a consolation. The White Sox are 39:121 after 160 of 162 games.
2024-09-28 05:27:33