CHICAGO — Andy Ibáñez homered and had three RBIs because the Detroit Tigers despatched the Chicago White Sox to their a hundredth loss with a 9-4 victory on Sunday.
Andrew Vaughn doubled, homered and had two RBIs for the White Sox (31-100), who have to go 12-19 to keep away from tying the 1962 New York Mets, who have been 40-120-1, for the trendy main league document for many losses in a season.
Chicago will fall in need of the all-time document held by the Cleveland Spiders, who completed 20-134 in 1899.
In MLB historical past, solely the 1916 Philadelphia A’s, who have been 29-100-1, reached 100 losses in fewer video games than the White Sox.
“Clearly, nobody desires to lose 100 video games, particularly with nonetheless a month to go,” White Sox starter Jonathan Cannon stated. “However we’re going to maintain coming right here day by day, getting our work in and hold simply going on the market and making an attempt to win some ballgames.”
Colt Keith had three hits and three RBIs for the Tigers, who’ve received 4 of 5.
Chicago has misplaced 100 or extra video games six occasions in franchise historical past and in consecutive seasons for the primary time.
They went 61-101 final season underneath supervisor Pedro Grifol, who was fired Aug. 8. Chicago is 3-11 underneath interim supervisor Grady Sizemore.
“Everybody in that locker room is conscious of the document and the way irritating it’s, completely,” Sizemore stated.
The White Sox dropped a club-worst 106 video games in 1970. Their worst successful proportion is .325, after they went 49-102-1 in 1932.
Bryan Sammons (1-1) allowed a run and three hits in 4 1/3 innings for Detroit to earn his first huge league victory.
Cannon (2-8) gave up 5 runs and eight hits in 4 innings for the White Sox.
“We all know the place we’re at. We all know it’s not good,” Chicago left fielder Andrew Benintendi stated.
Benintendi and Vaughn hit back-to-back doubles off opener Beau Brieske to place the White Sox forward 2-0 within the first.
Detroit’s Kerry Carpenter doubled, reached third on middle fielder Dominic Fletcher’s fielding error and scored on Keith’s single to chop the result in 2-1 within the third. Chicago had 4 errors.
Vaughn hit his fifteenth homer, a solo shot, off Sammons within the third to extend Chicago’s result in 3-1.
Zach McKinstry singled, stole second and scored on Parker Meadows’ triple to make it 3-2 within the fourth.
The Tigers scored three runs within the fifth to take a 5-3 lead. Carpenter, Keith and Jace Jung hit consecutive singles to tie it earlier than pinch hitter Ibáñez grounded right into a fielder’s selection and Trey Sweeney singled to herald the opposite runs.
“As we’ve gotten youthful, just a little extra athletic, we’ve gotten just a little bit higher and the wins have come,” Tigers supervisor A.J. Hinch stated. “All people is chipping away at doing their half as a result of we do wish to have a successful staff.”
Ibáñez hit a two-run homer off Enyel De Los Santos within the seventh and Keith added a two-run double within the eighth for the Tigers who are actually a sport away from the .500 mark at 65-66.
“That’d be a giant aim for us to realize,” Keith stated about Detroit reaching .500. “I’ve been saying for some time that this staff has quite a lot of potential. We’ve simply obtained to be extra constant and also you see us being constant the final couple weeks, taking part in good baseball.”
