With the calendar on the edge of turning to September, the Chicago White Sox have actually currently gone beyond 100 losses this season. Entering Into Labor Day weekend, the White Sox have 27 video games staying on their schedule and are 17 losses far from breaking the big league record for the majority of losses in a single season.
The 1962 New York Mets lost 120 video games, a mark that resides in baseball infamy, a record with which no MLB group wishes to be associated. The 2003 Detroit Tigers came close, extremely close, to matching the Mets, losing 119 video games. Current groups that likewise challenged the '62 Mets were the 2018 Baltimore Orioles (115) and the 2019 Tigers (114 ).
The White Sox look extremely capable of breaking the Mets' record. They are 31– 104 getting in Friday, while the notorious Mets were 34-100 at this moment. Chicago has actually had different losing streaks of 14 and 21 video games this season, and started the season with 4 various losing streaks, each separated by one win. They were gotten rid of from playoff contention on Aug. 17, earlier than any group in MLB history.
As the White Sox approach an all-time mark for futility, 9 members of the '62 Mets are still conscious see their notorious record potentially be broken. The Wall Street Journal's Jared Diamond spoke with a few of the making it through members of the group to get their ideas on this White Sox season, a dreadful project they believed may never ever see.
“It's going to take place probably at some point,” Craig Anderson, 86, a pitcher who went 3– 17 in 1962. “I simply didn't anticipate it ‘d take place in my life time.”
Chicago White Sox fans are using paper bags on their heads, one sign of how unpleasant the 2024 season has actually been. (Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)
Mets legend Ed Kranepool has compassion with the White Sox, however just a lot.
“I sympathize with them,” stated Kranepool, 79. “Better them than me.”
Perhaps the discomfort of withstanding such an unpleasant season was finest voiced by pitcher Jay Hook, who went 8– 19.
“I would not want that on any person,” stated Hook, 87. Hook included that belonging to such a group is something that will constantly belong of the gamers' lives.
The White Sox have not broken the Mets' record. And possibly they eventually will not. If they do, maybe they can look forward to being asked about the 2024 season if another MLB group comes anywhere close to the number of losses this group collects. Will fans and media still be discussing it and looking for those gamers out 60-plus years later on?
