Another new low level: unlocked
Our recap did not show tonight, so we begin an extremely abridged look at things for any of you somehow still unaware of Thursday’s doleful drubbing, 14-2, at the hands of the Red Sox, by stating the well-known: With this 14th consecutive loss, the White Sox have set a new single-season losing streak and are now one loss from tying the all-time (1967-68) White Sox losing streak of 15 games.
On the second pitch of the game, Jarren Duran homered, and the Red Sox never looked back, pushing the lead to 3-0 in the second and 7-0 by the fourth. It was 11-0 by the sixth. The White Sox, flashing the pride we’ve seen since F.A.S.T. was first screened onto T-shirts, finally did notch their first hit, in the bottom of the sixth, a single from Lenyn Sosa. Two batters later, Zach DeLoach kept his memorabilia case efficient by turning a double down the left-field line into his first MLB hit and RBI.
Naturally, the Red Sox answered back with two runs in the top of the seventh, pushing the lead to 13-1.
Mini-mite Danny Mendick peeled off his batting gloves and strode to the mound for the ninth. His repertoire over 15 pitches consisted of “fastball” and eephus, and the latter closed Boston, scoreless:
In the end, the White Sox were outhit, 24-4, as the pitching staff took its Major League Baseball-high 23 hits allowed just a week ago at Milwaukee and raised it by one. The 24 hits allowed fell just two shy of the all-time record of hits allowed by the White Sox and is tied for the eighth-most ever given up by the team. Seven of the 19-biggest opponent-hitting outbursts (that’s a game of 23 hits or more, in this context) have come this century.
Also, only two times in the history of the White Sox — that is 19,210 games, if you’re counting — have the White Sox been out-hit by more than 20, like tonight. Oh hey wait, there’s a tweet about it:
Only twice before, among the 19,210 all-time games the White Sox have played, has an opponent outhit them by more than the 20 in tonight's game (BOS outhit CHI, 24-4).
— South Side Sox (@SouthSideSox) June 7, 2024
One was the 11th-ever game in team history, in 1901.
The other was the 19-0 loss to the Angels in 2002.
#BetterAtTheBallpark
Futility Watch
White Sox 2024 Record 15-48, worst 63-game start in White Sox history (5 1⁄2 games ahead the next-worst, 1948 White Sox) and tied for the sixth-worst start in MLB history
White Sox 2024 Run Differential -152, 12th-worst 63-game start in MLB history
White Sox 2024 Season Record Pace 39-123 (.238)
Race to the Worst “Modern” 162-Game Record (2003 Tigers, 43-119) 4 games ahead
Race to the Worst “Modern” Record in a 162-Game Season (1962 Mets, 40-120) 2 games ahead
Race to the Most White Sox Losses (1970, 106) 17 games ahead
Race to the Worst White Sox Record (1932, 52-109-1*) 13 1⁄2 games ahead
Race to the Worst American League Record (1916 A’s, 38-124*) 1 game behind
*record adjusted to a 162-game season
