White Sox suffer record 121st defeat of season

The Chicago White Sox broke the modern-day grounds for astir losses successful a Major League Baseball play with their 121st decision of 2024.

They claimed the unwanted landmark with a 4-1 decision astatine the Detroit Tigers.

"It's not the twelvemonth we wanted," said Grady Sizemore, who took implicit arsenic interim manager aft Pedro Grifol was sacked successful August.

Pitcher Garrett Crochet said: "Obviously it sucks."

The White Sox equalled the New York Mets' grounds from 1962 with their 120th nonaccomplishment of the play connected Sunday.

Fans flocked to Chicago's Guaranteed Rate Field this week to spot the White Sox interruption the record, but they won 3 successive games against the Los Angeles Angels.

Victory for Detroit astatine Comerica Park secured their archetypal American League play-off berth since 2014.

After the crippled the White Sox posted a representation connected societal media of a machine with a database of "Things we'd alternatively bash than work comments" and a photograph of the squad mascot sitting against a partition with the caption "slams laptop unopen 'til tomorrow".

They person 2 much games against the Tigers successful Detroit earlier the play ends.

The Cleveland Spiders mislaid 134 of their 154 matches successful 1899, earlier what is present known arsenic the modern epoch began the pursuing year.

"It's not the numbers that we want," said Sizemore. "But that doesn't mean it's a full loss. We tin physique from this. We tin larn from this and get better."

White Sox starting pitcher Crochet threw 4 scoreless innings, striking retired six batters and issuing 1 walk.

"No existent emotions," helium said. "We enactment ourselves successful this presumption aboriginal on. We are wherever we are due to the fact that of the mode we played. But that's conscionable each it is."

This play the White Sox acceptable a franchise grounds by losing 14 games successful a row.

They broke that with a 21-game tally of defeats that tied the 1988 Baltimore Orioles for the longest successful American League history.