{"id":21696,"date":"2024-07-31T08:08:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T14:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21696"},"modified":"2024-07-31T08:08:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T14:08:49","slug":"sour-sixteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/sour-sixteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sour Sixteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sox-fire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21364\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sox-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sox-fire.jpg 600w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sox-fire-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>After a busy day watching teammates getting traded away, rookie Jonathan Cannon took the mound last night looking to stop his team&#8217;s record fifteen-game losing streak.\u00a0 He did his part, throwing 7 innings of 1-hit ball, leaving with a 2-1 lead.\u00a0 Unfortunately, rookie Fraser Ellard, making his major league debut thanks to those earlier trades, couldn&#8217;t hold down the fort and the White Sox fell to the Royals once again, losing 4-3 and extending their losing streak to a franchise-record sixteen games.<\/p>\n<p>Only five other teams have lost sixteen consecutive games in a single season since 1994: the 2005 Royals (19 losses), 2011 Mariners (17 losses), 2021 Diamondbacks (17 losses), and 2021 Orioles (19 losses).\u00a0 The 2024 White Sox now join this list, while now racking up more blown saves (28) than wins (27).\u00a0 They will once again try to snap this losing streak this afternoon against the Royals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a busy day watching teammates getting traded away, rookie Jonathan Cannon took the mound last night looking to stop his team&#8217;s record fifteen-game losing streak.\u00a0 He did his part, throwing 7 innings of 1-hit ball, leaving with a 2-1 lead.\u00a0 Unfortunately, rookie Fraser Ellard, making his major league debut thanks to those earlier trades, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[122,11519,11498,124,50,126,49],"class_list":["post-21696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-diamondbacks","tag-fraser-ellard","tag-jonathan-cannon","tag-mariners","tag-orioles","tag-royals","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21697,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696\/revisions\/21697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}