Issues are loads much less sunny if you go away Los Angeles.
Because the Chicago White Sox misplaced their twenty first straight sport on Monday evening in Oakland — tying an American League document — cameras panned to infielder Miguel Vargas sulking in a nook of the staff’s dugout.
With the scoreboard graphic overlaid, Vargas seemed coaches up and down whereas hardly even quivering a lip.
The 24-year-old joined the lowly White Sox on July 29 in a commerce that despatched reliever Michael Kopech and infielder Tommy Edman to the Dodgers, plus starter Erick Fedde to the Cardinals.
In that span, the White Sox have gone 0-6 regardless of Vargas beginning each sport.
Throughout that stretch, the utilityman has hit simply 3-for-24 (.125) with two extra-base hits, two RBIs and two walks.
As a staff, Chicago’s final win arrived on July 10 towards the Minnesota Twins and will problem the trendy MLB document with 23 straight losses, a feat achieved by the Phillies in 1961.
The White Sox final even led a sport within the sixth inning towards Minnesota on Aug. 3 however finally surrendered 4 runs within the last 4 innings to lose.
In the meantime, the Dodgers — who boast the NL’s second-best document at 66-47 — have gone 3-3 since buying Kopech, together with profitable their final three matchups.
In a battle of two of baseball’s finest on Monday evening, the Dodgers held on for a 5-3 win over the Philadelphia Phillies, that includes a scoreless inning of aid from Kopech.
Vargas, who spent most of his first three seasons in Los Angeles, isn’t used to dropping with a lot regularity.
Within the final three years, the Dodgers have gone 277-160 within the common season, tallying 12 extra wins than some other staff.
Nonetheless, the postseason has been extra of a home of horrors.
Los Angeles famously misplaced within the NLDS to the Padres and Diamondbacks in consecutive years, not mustering a couple of win in every particular person collection.
As Mookie Betts, Edman and different Dodgers return to motion within the last six weeks of MLB’s common season, Los Angeles appears to exorcise its postseason demons and attain the World Sequence for the primary time since 2020.
Then again, the White Sox look to keep away from surpassing the 1988 Orioles for the longest dropping streak since 1961.
