My beloved White Sox are really bad this year. 24 games into the season they had won 3 games and lost 24 for a paltry winning percentage of .125. They have improved somewhat in the past two weeks. Since the they snapped their season high 7 game losing streak and have had 2 3 game winning streaks and 1 2 game winning streak for an 8-7 record. This has more than doubled their winning pct. to a still very meager .282. This is bad enough still for dead last in the American league 3.5 games behind the Astros and the Angels. However, over in the senior circuit, (just one of many colorful monikers for the National League) both the Rockies and the Marlins have so far under performed the underperforming Southsiders.
The Rockies own the worst winning percentage in the majors at .243 and while the Marlins are slightly better percentage wise at .250 they are still a 1/2 game behind Colorado in the standings by virtue of having played 3 more games than the Rockies at this point,
As it stands at 11:00 p.m. central time on May 10th, The White Sox are 1.5 games ahead of the Marlins and 1 game ahead of Colorado. This is a tight margin, and but by the end of play Sunday, the White Sox could again hold the worst record in all of baseball.
One thing the Sox have not been able to do this year about a quarter way through the season is win a game when on a 1 game losing streak. The Sox are 0-6 when on a 1 game losing streak, 1-5 after losing 2 in a row, 0-5 when on a 3 game slide, and just 2-3 the game after losing 4 in a row. If the Sox even want to battle for mediocre they need to eschew losing streaks of more than 3 games. So far the Sox have lost 4 or more in a row on 5 different occasions.
I am not very hopeful that the White Sox can turn things around this year. But for a team that started the season 2-13, an 8-7 run like the one they are on now is definitely a step in the right direction.
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