IT’S OVER
White Sox finish the season with a 9-5 win and victories in five of six. The 2025 season just can’t come quickly enough!
The guess here is that today’s outcome didn’t make a big difference to Detroit’s playoff fortunes? If it did, wow, they blew it, getting blown out by the 121-loss White Sox, 9-5.
As you can imagine, it was a slow, sloppy, clubbing game, watch out, pitchers and feast a bit, hitters. Chicago went up a quick 5-0, and later on, 9-4. Things got a bit hairy when a Kerry Carpenter grand slam off of starter Jonathan Cannon drew the Tigers to 5-4 in the fifth, but Detroit has its sights set on the postseason at this point and could afford to fritter this game away.
Better a game than a season, right, White Sox?
Futility Watch
White Sox 2024 Record 41-121, worst season in White Sox history, sixth-worst post-1899 MLB season all-time and 80 games below .500
White Sox 2024 Run Differential -306, fourth-worst 162-game season in MLB history
All-Time White Sox Record (1901-2024) 9,594-9,612 (.4995)
Race to the Worst “Modern” 162-Game Record (2003 Tigers, 43-119) CLINCHED, finished two games worse than the 2003 Tigers
Race to the Worst “Modern” Record in a 162-Game Season (1962 Mets, 40-120-1) tied in standings, but the White Sox finished percentage points ahead, .253 to .250
Race to the Most White Sox Losses (1970, 106) new record set by 15 losses (121)
Race to the Worst White Sox Record (1932, 49-102-1) CLINCHED, finished 13 1⁄2 games worse than the 1932 team
Race to the Worst Post-1899 Record (1916 A’s, 36-117-1) FAILED; finished a half-game better than the A’s