On Tuesday night, the Chicago White Sox finally put an end to Major League Baseball’s longest losing streak this century. At 21 games, it tied the American League record held by the 1988 Baltimore Orioles, who infamously went 0-21 to start the season. That club’s skipper, Cal Ripken Sr., did not survive the duration of the streak (much to his family’s chagrin), whereas White Sox manager Pedro Grifol at least got to see his club snap the skid.
The grace period for the elusive win lasted one day. The White Sox promptly went back to their losing ways on Wednesday, as the desperate-to-skip-town Oakland Athletics beat them, 3-2. The
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