White Sox set to slide into major league infamy
China DailyChicago White Sox players watch from the dugout during an MLB game against the San Diego Padres on Sunday at Petco Park in San Diego, California. Aside from "longest World Series drought", the Chicago White Sox are on the verge of posting arguably the worst of the lot. On Sunday, the Sox tied the post-1900 Major League Baseball record of 120 losses in a single season, held by the 1962 New York Mets, when the San Diego Padres beat the hapless Southsiders 4-2, following a three-run rally in the eighth inning that was capped by a towering home run off the bat of Fernando Tatis Jr. That crushing defeat came just 24 hours after the Sox tied the American League record of 119 regular season losses posted by the 2003 Detroit Tigers, who were no doubt celebrating the passing of the baton to one of their bitterest rivals. As the deflated Sox players headed to a somber clubhouse and quietly packed for their flight home, they were left pondering a season of a last gasp defeats, something veteran outfielder Andrew Benintendi acknowledged. In the spirit of finding the positives, even though this season's stats will hang like a millstone around the neck of Southsiders for, one would suspect, quite some time, it's worth noting that at 20-134, the 1899 Cleveland Spiders still hold the all-time major league record for losses.
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