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Chicago White Sox Join Unfortunately Historic Group in Futility on Sunday

The Chicago White Sox lost again on Sunday, marking their second losing streak of 14 games or more this year.

Brady Farkas

Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh (29) rounds the bases after hitting a two-run home run against the Chicago White Sox during the first inning at Guaranteed Rate Field on July 28.
Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh (29) rounds the bases after hitting a two-run home run against the Chicago White Sox during the first inning at Guaranteed Rate Field on July 28. / Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports
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The Chicago White Sox lost 6-3 to the Seattle Mariners on Sunday afternoon. With that, Chicago is now a league-worst 27-81 and they have lost 14 straight games. Sadly, this is the second time this year that the White Sox have put together a 14+ game losing streak, putting them in futile company in baseball history.

Per @StatsCentre on social media:

(Related) Teams with multiple 14+ game losing streaks in a season:
2024 White Sox
2021 Orioles (19, 14)
1935 Boston Braves (15, 14)
1911 Braves (16, 14)
1899 Cleveland Spiders (24, 16, 14)
1894 Louisville Colonels (20, 18)
1889 Colonels (26, 14)
1884 Kansas City Cowboys (15, 14)

The only silver lining in this for Chicago fans is that the Orioles very quickly turned that 2021 season around to become of the best teams in baseball by 2023, so quick fixes can and do happen. Furthermore, the Kansas City Royals lost 106 games a season ago and are battling for a playoff berth this year.

The White Sox have embarked on a team and painful rebuild that began with them having a firesale at last year's trade deadline and continued with them trading Gregory Santos, Aaron Bummer and Dylan Cease this past offseason. They appear primed to trade what's left of the roster at this year's deadline with Garrett Crochet, Erick Fedde and Tommy Pham all expected to be dealt away.

The White Sox will be back in action on Monday and will look to break the losing streak when they take on the Royals at 8:10 p.m. ET. Alec Marsh (KC) will pitch against Chris Flexen (CWS).

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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