With their 13-7 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Sunday afternoon, the Chicago White Sox grew to become the primary group because the 1988 Baltimore Orioles to lose 20 consecutive video games in a season. It’s a staggering consequence and highlights simply how far the group has fallen in simply a few years after reaching the 2021 ALDS.
As if this shedding streak was not unhealthy sufficient, the White Sox additionally had a 14-game shedding streak earlier within the season to assist drop them to a whopping 60 video games beneath .500 in solely the primary week of August.
However what is actually staggering about that is that in case you eradicated these two historic shedding streaks (combining for 34 losses) from their document, the White Sox would nonetheless have the worst successful proportion in Main League Baseball this season (.337).
The White Sox post-game present mentioned all of that on Sunday, and former supervisor Ozzie Guillen gave the impression to be taking it particularly personally.
Primarily as a result of the White Sox’s present supervisor Pedro Grifol was employed over him three years in the past when the group was making a managerial change.