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The Chicago White Sox have become the epitome of failure in Major League Baseball.

With their 121st loss this season, they now hold the title of the team with the fewest wins in modern baseball history.

This historic loss occurred on Friday night when they fell 4-1 to the Detroit Tigers.

White Sox pitcher Garrett Crochet managed to keep the Tigers at bay for the first four innings, but things changed in the fifth after he was replaced. Reliever Jared Shuster allowed two runs to the Tigers, breaking the tie, and they added two more runs in the seventh. The White Sox’s sole run came from Zach DeLoach’s solo home run in the sixth inning.

This defeat surpasses the 1962 New York Mets’ record of 40-120, which led to their manager Casey Stengel famously asking, “Can’t anybody here play this game?”

That same question might also apply to the 2024 White Sox.

With a current record of 39 wins and 121 losses, Chicago has faced losing streaks of 21, 14, and 12 games this season, including a stretch that led to the dismissal of manager Pedro Grifol in early August.

Additionally, the White Sox did not plan for this disgrace as they traded pitchers Erick Fedde and Michael Kopech, along with outfielders Eloy Jimenez and Tommy Pham, just before the July 30 trade deadline—making their roster even weaker.

As they entered Friday’s matchup, the White Sox ranked at the bottom of the league in several categories: scoring (3.1 runs per game), batting average (.221), on-base percentage (.279), and slugging percentage (.340). Their pitching staff also had the worst team ERA in the American League at 4.71, only behind the Miami Marlins (4.77) and Colorado Rockies (5.40) for the worst in baseball overall.

Earlier this week, they managed to momentarily avoid infamy by sweeping the Los Angeles Angels, but they couldn’t prevent their 121st loss on Friday.

“Winning three in a row gave us hope that maybe we could turn things around and then suddenly you find yourself on the wrong side of history,” White Sox player Gavin Sheets commented after the game, as reported by the Chicago Tribune’s Daryl Van Schouwen. “It stings more than I thought it would.”

While the White Sox lamented their defeat on Friday, the Tigers reveled in a more positive achievement: securing their first playoff spot in a decade. Unfortunately for the White Sox, they still have two more games this weekend to further add to their troubling loss record.

However, the White Sox are unlikely to surpass the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, who ended their season with a record of 20 wins and 134 losses, boasting a “winning” percentage of just .130.