The Chicago White Sox’ 6-2 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Saturday night time prolonged their dropping streak to a whopping 19 consecutive video games. It has been a depressing stretch which has put them on a tempo to set a brand new file for contemporary 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 sport, their streak of defeats would attain 20 consecutive video games. Within the historical past of Main League Baseball there have solely been 11 dropping streaks which have reached that degree, with no staff doing so because the 1988 Baltimore Orioles — who really opened the season with a 21-game dropping streak.
There have solely been three 20-game dropping streaks because the 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 dropping 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 dropping streak in Main League Baseball historical past is a 26-game whopper by the Louisville Colonels through 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 in opposition to 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 provided that Oakland can be one of many league’s worst groups this season. The one catch there’s that the A’s have really been enjoying actually good baseball over the previous few weeks and carried a 16-9 file because the begin of July coming into play on Saturday.
