White Sox Season in Jeopardy

[Cubfanintheknow]

Just now, Cubfanintheknow said:

White Sox are at +800 to finish the season with fewer than 40 wins.

ETA: Double checked... odds were from 5 days (4 losses) ago.

[soccer10k]

[UMFan83]

Don't know if anyone realized this yet but I believe that if the White Sox keep losing their chance to break the record for most consecutive losses in a single season will be against the Cubs this weekend.

[Tryptamine]

They're now on pace to win 38 and be outscored by 351 runs. That would be the worst run differential in the modern era. Their current .237 winning percentage is the 2nd worst of the modern era behind only the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics(.235).

[PackLandVA]

20

[Brian707]

1 hour ago, UMFan83 said:

Don't know if anyone realized this yet but I believe that if the White Sox keep losing their chance to break the record for most consecutive losses in a single season will be against the Cubs this weekend.

I think they will win a game vs Oakland this week but it would be cool for the Cubs to help put them in the record books

[Derwood]

They're just destroying the 60/42/60 theory

[Sammy Sofa]

Ray Ratto has been having a ball with this over on Defector:

https://defector.com/why-are-the-white-sox-like-this

https://defector.com/the-white-sox-continue-to-mock-the-law-of-averages

https://defector.com/20-losses-is-where-the-real-blight-sox-begin

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The White Sox are hell-bent on being the kind of bad baseball team seen only during world wars. There's nothing we can do to stop them except maybe to spirit them on their way to their true level, as horrifying as that might seem.

The Blank Feet turned in another abject surrender Saturday night against the Minnesota Twins, 6-2, reaching a 19-game losing streak that is approaching the longest in the game's history. Manager-turned-babysitter Pedro Grifol trotted out a lineup with batting averages of .232, .232, .218, .217, .216, .210, .205, .193 and .159. That starting nine's best OPS, Luis Robert's .716, ranks 206th among all batters; he isn't a qualified batter because he's spent about half the season mercifully injured with a hip strain. As a result, the Sox amassed three whole hits, one of them a homer by fresh-from-the-minors shortstop Brooks Baldwin, who entered the game with 46 plate appearances and a slash line of .159/.196/.250.

Earlier in the season, Chicago had a 14-game losing streak, meaning that if not for those two mildly unfortunate stretches, the team would be 27-53 and still have the worst record in baseball by more than a week's worth of games. As it is, they are 27-86 and have the worst record in baseball by a month and half. They won a total of three games in July.

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But you know all that if you're the sort who likes to take your lunch outside by walking to the local graveyard.

 

[Irrelevant Dude]

Big game tonight!  Can the White Sox score their first Monday victory of the season?

[NorthsideAvenger]

Don't forget that one year ago, "Down goes Anderson." 

[Tryptamine]

IF they lose tonight they'll tie the AL record for most consecutive loses in a season. 

[Outshined_One]

If this were a 20 game winning streak instead of a 20 game losing streak, the White Sox would only be 20 games under .500.

[Tryptamine]

In a disappointing season, the Cubs are on pace to win 78 games. At the White Sox current win percentage, it would take them 329 games to do the same.

[UMFan83]

Just some random factoids/notes:

-If the White Sox went .500 the rest of the season (24-24), they'd finish 51-111. 

-If they play .400 baseball (19-29) the rest of the season (~65-97 caliber team), they'd finish 46-116.  

-To avoid tying the modern (post-1901) record for most losses in a season (120) they'll need to go at least 16-32.

-If they play their season winning percentage (.238) the rest of the season they'll go 11-37 and finish 38-124

-The 2003 Tigers are the closest we've come to someone tying the 62 Mets for 120 losses.  Through 114 games they were 30-84, so 3 games better than the White Sox are now.  But, they ended up going through a really rough stretch going 1-15 from August 8th - August 23rd, and then had another rough stretch going 1-16 from Sept 5th - Sept 22nd.  That left them at 38-118, just 2 losses from the record with 6 games to go.  Miraculously, the Tigers went 5-1 to finish off the season beating an 83-79 Royals team and the AL Central champion Twins to avoid making history.  Always thought that was so awesome of them to find a way to win those games.  3 years later they were in the World Series.

Edited August 5, 2024 by UMFan83

[PackLandVA]

[We Got The Whole 9]

 

[Tryptamine]

It blows my mind that the White Sox are 15 games behind the Rockies for the 2nd worst team in baseball. To put that in perspective, the Cubs are only 13.5 games out of the best record in baseball. 

[Brian707]

The Bears won on a Monday more recently than the Sox

[Tim]

If the losing streak were a person, it could legally drink

[CubinNY]

I texted my buddy who is a die-hard Sox fan and he wrote back that he hasn't been paying attention.

[Outshined_One]

3 hours ago, CubinNY said:

I texted my buddy who is a die-hard Sox fan and he wrote back that he hasn't been paying attention.

I think we all know what that really means for him:

[Andy]

3 hours ago, CubinNY said:

I texted my buddy who is a die-hard Sox fan and he wrote back that he hasn't been paying attention.

Funnily enough, that's basically how my friends answer my angry Cubs texts.

[JHBulls]

So with the longest losing streak in the MLB era being 23 losses in a row, the White Sox are on a collision course with the Cubs to break that record. 

[soccer10k]

9 hours ago, Tryptamine said:

It blows my mind that the White Sox are 15 games behind the Rockies for the 2nd worst team in baseball. To put that in perspective, the Cubs are only 13.5 games out of the best record in baseball. 

I can’t get enough of these stats.

[Brian707]

Sox leas 2-1 in the 6th. Could this end tonight?