The Chicago White Sox’ 6-2 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Saturday evening prolonged their shedding streak to a whopping 19 consecutive video games. It has been a depressing stretch which has put them on a tempo to set a new record for modern baseball futility over a full season.
Earlier than they attain that degree of disappointment, they could attain one other notorious degree on Sunday.
Ought to the White Sox lose Sunday’s recreation, their streak of defeats would attain 20 consecutive video games. Within the historical past of Main League Baseball there have only been 11 losing streaks that have reached that level, with no staff doing so for the reason that 1988 Baltimore Orioles — who truly opened the season with a 21-game shedding streak.
There have solely been three 20-game shedding streaks for the reason that mid-Forties.
The three most up-to-date have been the 1988 Orioles (21 video games), the 1969 Montreal Expos (20 video games) and the 1961 Philadelphia Phillies (23 video games).
Each different 20-game shedding streak in main league historical past occurred previous to the 1944 season, together with seven which occurred sooner than the 1916 season.
Formally, the longest shedding streak in Main League Baseball historical past is a 26-game whopper by the Louisville Colonels throughout the 1899 season.
The White Sox would want to lose their subsequent seven video games to match that file. Their subsequent seven video games are towards the Twins, Oakland A’s (three video games), Chicago Cubs (two video games) and the New York Yankees. The three Oakland video games may be the membership’s greatest probability to snap the streak on condition that Oakland can be one of many league’s worst groups this season. The one catch there may be that the A’s have truly been enjoying actually good baseball over the previous few weeks and carried a 16-9 file for the reason that begin of July coming into play on Saturday.
