The Chicago White Sox misplaced to the Minnesota Twins on Sunday by a 13-7 remaining (field rating), extending their majors-leading shedding streak to twenty video games in a row. The White Sox fell behind by a 2-0 margin within the first inning and issues solely went additional downhill from there. Certainly, the Twins opened up an 8-0 lead within the second inning on the power of a three-run dwelling run from Royce Lewis, amongst different key knocks. Chicago battled again, making Sunday the primary time scoring greater than 5 runs throughout this shedding streak, however it wasn’t sufficient.
The White Sox have been outscored by a 131-48 margin in that 20-game stretch. That is a median of 4 runs down per recreation.
The White Sox, now 27-87 on the yr, are considered one of seven groups in trendy Main League Baseball historical past to have misplaced 20 or extra video games in a row. They’re the primary crew to endure such a futile run because the 1988 Baltimore Orioles, and so they’re three extra losses from tying the longest shedding streak of all-time.
This is a have a look at each MLB crew to achieve at the least 20 consecutive losses:
- 1961 Philadelphia Phillies, 23 video games
- 1988 Baltimore Orioles, 21 video games
- 1969 Montreal Expos, 20 video games
- 1943 Philadelphia Athletics, 20 video games
- 1916 Philadelphia Athletics, 20 video games
- 1906 Boston Individuals, 20 video games
It is value noting that that is the second time this season the White Sox have authored one of many 40 longest shedding streaks in MLB historical past. In addition they dropped 14 video games in a row from Could 22 till June 6. That is tied for the Thirty eighth-longest streak in historical past.
Our Dayn Perry examined the White Sox’s bid at ignominious historical past earlier this week. After Sunday’s loss, the White Sox are on tempo for a 124-loss season. The 1962 New York Mets maintain the fashionable report for single-season losses, with 120. Solely two groups since World Struggle II have cleared even 115 losses: the 2003 Detroit Tigers (which CBS Sports activities wrote extra about a couple of years in the past) and the 2018 Baltimore Orioles.
The White Sox will proceed their season on Monday towards the Oakland Athletics.
