Will White Sox Make it 22 Consecutive Losses vs. Athletics?

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00:00Could it be a record-setting day in Oakland?

00:03Yesterday, it was.

00:05The White Sox making history for all of the wrong reasons,

00:09losing 21 straight games to the A's in their series opener.

00:145-1 was the final.

00:15That matches the longest losing skid in the history of the American League,

00:20tying the Baltimore Orioles back in 1988,

00:23who started that season 0-21.

00:26Could the White Sox drop 22 straight?

00:29Today against the A's, the Athletics nearly a $2 favorite to do it once again.

00:34Joe Friese, well done, feeling 22.

00:37That is a good headline.

00:388.5 is the total for today's game by the Bay.

00:4222 straight losses, DRS.

00:45Is it going to happen tonight?

00:47Feeling 22, about to fall into a blank space right now with another loss.

00:51Could be amazing out there on the West Coast.

00:53I wonder how many people are going to show up for this game here.

00:55But let's just talk about the optics of it.

00:57The Oakland Athletics with Ross Stripling on the mound,

00:59they're close to a $2 price.

01:01That is absolutely outrageous.

01:03But what gives you any hope?

01:04Like, we started this by having the recap yesterday

01:06for what happened between Oakland and Chicago.

01:09And forget about the game itself.

01:10You just look at that roster 1-9 and go, can anybody get base hits?

01:13And it's the same thing once again today

01:15because if you're lining up the Chicago White Sox team against Stripling,

01:18who's not a great pitcher,

01:19but actually does have some decent statistics

01:21with iso power number weighted on base percentage.

01:24But just look at this lineup here.

01:25Vargas, Baldwin, Robert, Sheets, Vaughn, Sosa, Fletcher,

01:30all below the Mendoza line for iso power numbers.

01:32So if you have seven dead bats in the lineup

01:35and just two decent ones,

01:36and those two decent ones are Ben Attendee and Corey Lee,

01:39which we told you are hitting around 150 apiece,

01:42it feels like for both of them.

01:43I don't give too many high hopes.

01:45But also now you're taking a look here.

01:46Like, forget about the X's and O's on the field

01:48and who actually has the better statistics.

01:50You have one side that really doesn't want to lose 22 straight games.

01:54Why? Because it's embarrassing

01:55and you're setting yourself up for historic numbers

01:58in the wrong direction.

01:59But also if you're Oakland,

02:01man, you guys just lost to a team that lost 21 straight.

02:03That's terrible.

02:04So it's almost like you have like the competing sides,

02:06like we don't want to be embarrassed

02:08and the other side doesn't want to be embarrassed at the same time.

02:10But I don't know who's betting on the White Sox.

02:12That is a dead team walking in a dead environment in Oakland.

02:16They'll probably get blistered again today.

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