Clean sweep! Rangers 2, White Sox 1
yes 51 games under yes -202 run differential yes 11-game losing streak yes a 15th sweep yes it’s July 25
The White Sox got out of the gate FAST with shutouts ... sorry, with BEING shut out. But since then, those one-run games have piled up, and have taken a commanding lead on shutouts, 18 games to 12. Either way, that makes 30 games where the offense hasn’t conjured more than one run ... and 27 wins, total.
Oh, today Andrew Benintendi, batting .196, pinch-hit in the ninth inning of a one-run game.
Top Play
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When birthday boy Korey Lee opened the scoring in the third inning with an RBI double it was a 13.3% WPA play that pushed the chances of the White Sox winning to 63.6%
Top Performer
David Robertson’s two-inning save in very high (one-run game) leverage earned him rare top honors, scoring 27.6% WPA for the game.
Hardest Hit
Sometimes you crush a ball a game-topping 109.1 mph, but the pitcher gloves the liner in self-defense and doubles a teammate off of first base. Wyatt Langford, this is your life.
Weakest Contact
It wasn’t even two mph faster than Brooks Baldwin’s bunt pop-out, but Nick Senzel grounded out at 39.3 mph today. If Lenyn Sosa isn’t preparing some sort of Getz voodoo doll or temporary retirement to get out of this org ASAP, he’s wasting his time on Triple-A bus trips.
Luckiest Hit
Zero lucky hits today, although Eloy Jiménez and Nicky Lopez both had .420 xBA singles.
Toughest Out
Andrew Vaughn lined out in the fourth inning on a ball that often falls; today, it was just a .690 xBA out.
Longest Hit
Korey Lee wins again, with his 388-foot RBI double that made things temporarily sunny for the Sox. In five MLB parks, that hit would have been a two-run homer.
Futility Watch
White Sox 2024 Record 27-78, worst 105-game start in White Sox history (8 1⁄2 games worse than the next-worst, 1948 White Sox), tied for seventh-worst start all-time, and a season-worst 51 games under .500
White Sox 2024 Run Differential -202, tied for 32nd-worst 105-game start in MLB history and a White Sox season-worst
White Sox 2024 Season Record Pace 42-120 (.257)
Race to the Worst “Modern” 162-Game Record (2003 Tigers, 43-119) 1 game worse
Race to the Worst “Modern” Record in a 162-Game Season (1962 Mets, 40-120) 1 games better
Race to the Most White Sox Losses (1970, 106) 14 games worse
Race to the Worst White Sox Record (1932, 52-109-1*) 10 1⁄2 games worse
Race to the Worst American League Record (1916 A’s, 38-124*) 4 games better
*record adjusted to a 162-game season
Glossary
WPA win probability added measures contributions to the win
xBA expected batting average