The White Sox were one of two teams to have three 10-game losing streaks in one season.
After today, they're the only team to have three 11-game losing streaks in one season.
The White Sox took a surprising 2-0 lead off Corbin Burnes in the first inning, and then they may as well have taken the rest of the afternoon off. The Orioles applied constant pressure against Chris Flexen and Co. throughout, and the Sox's run-prevention unit finally gave way in a six-run sixth that kicked the game well out of reach.
The Sox have lost 11 in a row, joining their streaks of 14 and 21 games to make a peculiar sort of infamy. So long, 1965 Mets. The 1962 Mets are next.
The White Sox have also lost 21 games Flexen has pitched in, and he took his league-leading 14th loss after 3⅓ ineffective innings. He gave up a homer to the first batter he faced to cut that aforementioned lead in half, and his hopes of even escaping with a no-decision dissolved in the third. The Orioles greeted him with a walk, single and walk to tie the game at 2, and although Flexen threatened to strand the Ryan O'Hearn at third with a couple of strikeouts, Austin Slater thwarted him with a double that put Baltimore ahead for good.
The game collapsed around Chad Kuhl. First, he fared well enough by stranding one of Fraser Ellard's two inherited runners in the fifth, which kept the game within reach at 5-2. An inning later, the Orioles scored five runs before their first out. Kuhl walked the first two batters of the inning, then gave up a double and a single that chased him from the game. Touki Toussaint entered and gave up a single and a triple to put four runs on Kuhl's line over just one-third of an inning, and the first out of the inning scored the sixth and final run of the frame.
Grady Sizemore tried to use Toussaint to get through the rest of the game, but he petered out with two down in the ninth, having given up seven hits, two walks and a homer over 2⅔ innings and 68 pitches.
The White Sox offense briefly scared Burnes with a pair of soft singles that put runners on second and third with nobody out. Andrew Benintendi scored one of them with a sac fly, and a Gavin Sheets single knocked home the other. They were held scoreless until Jake Amaya collected his first hit as a White Sox to start the eighth. He took second on a groundout and scored on a Corey Julks single.
The White Sox totaled eight singles and a walk over nine innings. The Orioles collected 11 singles and eight walks, along with four doubles, a triple and two homers.
Bullet points:
*The White Sox played sloppy defense throughout. Ellard's attempt to get a force at second was too high and loaded the bases with nobody out, Lopez fired wildly (and wrongly) to second in an ill-advised attempt to cut down a lead runner after a bobble, and Miguel Vargas made a nice stop, only to take way too long to throw to first, yielding a Colton Cowser infield single.
*White Sox pitchers threw 228 pitches over eight innings; Baltimore threw 144 over nine.
*The White Sox have how been outscored by 301 runs this season. The next worst is Colorado at -211.
