A baseball game during the first week of June compares to a single strand of hair on your head. It's easy to overlook but can offer insights about the overall situation. Such games can mark significant winning or losing streaks' beginning, end, or continuation.
Thursday's matchup between the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox exemplified this, as it perpetuated the South Siders' losing streak, marking yet another episode in a season that seems destined for humiliating immortality. Epic Failure The White Sox set a 100-year-old franchise record in Thursday's 14-2 loss. The blowout defeat marked their 14th straight loss and 18th loss in their last 19 games.
White Sox pitching surrendered 24 hits and issued five walks. Pedro Grifol and Chris Getz's White Sox are baseball's worst team with a record of 15-48 . Chicago's starting pitchers and three relievers each allowed at least one run.
The only exception was infielder Danny Mendick, who pitched a scoreless ninth inning. Oblivious as Usual In typical tone-deaf fashion for the organization, play-by-play broadcaster John Schriffen read an ad for season ticket holder appreciation week in the ninth inning, with an infielder pitching, while the White Sox were losing by 12 runs and setting a franchise record in embarrassment. Schriffen reading a season ticket holder appreciation week ad as the Sox are down 14-2 and about to lose their 14th game in a row is just peak entertainment.
Danny Mendick is on the mound. You can't even make thi.
