Doleful drubbing: Rangers 10, White Sox 2
yes 50 games under yes -201 run differential yes multiple 10+ losing streaks yes another series loss yes it’s July 24
This is the first time in franchise history a White Sox team has had losing streaks of 10 or more games in one season. The White Sox are now 50 games worse than .500. Yes, this game was closer than the final score indicates. Yes, it still counts as a loss
Top Play
The biggest WPA swing in fact moved this game from a likely White Sox win to a Rangers one, and for good: Adolis García doubled in Corey Seager on a 16.3% WPA play.
Wait, doubles on a ground ball, you say? Well, without picking too much on the defense and arm of former Gold Glover Luis Robert Jr., but García runs out of the box carrying the bat and hamming it up on his apparent RBI single, sees La Pantera hasn’t even reached the ball as he turns first, then beats a weak throw to second for a straight double. Chris Flexen must have been jacked to see that double added to his docket.
Top Performer
Aided significantly by that game-tying single double, Adolis García had the top WPA in the game, at 18.7%. Corey Seager and Nathan Eovaldi were in the running as well.
Hardest Hit
Luis Robert Jr. yanked a solo shot for the second Sox run, and he didn’t miss it: 113.0 mph.
Weakest Contact
Eloy Jiménez had a swinging bunt in the second inning that wins the day, at 53.6 mph.
Luckiest Hit
Corey Seager doubled to right field in the fifth. Unlike yesterday’s Luckiest Hit, a catchable fly ball, it’s odd that Seager’s had a .080 xBA; Tommy Pham got a good enough jump in right and didn’t dog it in pursuit.
Toughest Out
Jonah Heim lined out to right in the fifth on a ball that could have dropped, to the tune of a .740 xBA.
Longest Hit
The two Texas homers in the eighth off of Jared Shuster were the only two tilts topping 400 feet tonight, and Nathaniel Lowe’s 421-foot blast to left-center took top honors. It would have been a homer in 27 of the other 29 parks in the bigs.
Futility Watch
White Sox 2024 Record 27-77, worst 104-game start in White Sox history (8 1⁄2 games worse than the next-worst, 1948 White Sox), tied for ninth-worst start all-time, and a season-worst 50 games under .500
White Sox 2024 Run Differential -201, tied for 29th-worst 104-game start in MLB history and a White Sox season-worst
White Sox 2024 Season Record Pace 42-120 (.260)
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