Whenever you’re having a season just like the 2024 Chicago White Sox, each day is a brand new day to set an embarrassing file for unprecedented futility.
As soon as once more, the White Sox set one other terrible file yesterday that formally ends any probabilities of them making essentially the most historic comeback of all time this season.
In line with Baseball Reference’s Jessica Model, the White Sox have been formally eradicated from postseason rivalry after falling 6-1 to the Houston Astros on Saturday, and it’s the earliest calendar date elimination not solely within the Wild Card period but additionally the division period.
Immediately is August seventeenth, and the Chicago White Sox at the moment are mathematically eradicated from playoff rivalry.
That is the earliest calendar date elimination not solely within the wild card period, but additionally the divisional period.
The 30-94 White Sox at present sit 40.5 video games out of the AL Central race and 38.5 video games out of a Wild Card spot with solely 38 video games left.
The White Sox had gained three of their final eight video games following their historic 21-game shedding streak, however Saturday’s loss formally ended the comeback of the century.
It’s robust to pinpoint one spot the place the staff wants to enhance subsequent season as a result of the fact is that this staff is dangerous in each doable manner.
The Sox are thirtieth within the league in runs scored, sitting a whopping 65 runs behind the second-to-last-place Miami Marlins in that class, whereas additionally rating twenty ninth in staff ERA at 4.85 forward of simply the Colorado Rockies.
After setting this terrible file simply days after the 21-game shedding streak, Sox followers need to hope the embarrassment stops quickly and the staff can get scorching earlier than it units essentially the most embarrassing file of all of them for the worst file of the fashionable period and/or most losses in a season.