{"id":24808,"date":"2026-09-19T09:11:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24808"},"modified":"2026-09-19T09:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:11:38","slug":"falling-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/falling-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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\" \/>The White Sox were 307-2 at home in the 21st Century when leading by six or more runs coming into yesterday&#8217;s game.\u00a0 Sadly, they are now 307-3.\u00a0 Blowing an 8-2 lead, the White Sox lost 11-8 to the Tigers last night, which, combined with a Guardians victory over the A&#8217;s earlier in the evening, pushed them back down to second place.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves the White Sox with a tenuous single game lead over the Rangers for the third Wild Card spot as they struggle to become the first team to ever make the post-season after two straight 100-loss seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White Sox were 307-2 at home in the 21st Century when leading by six or more runs coming into yesterday&#8217;s game.\u00a0 Sadly, they are now 307-3.\u00a0 Blowing an 8-2 lead, the White Sox lost 11-8 to the Tigers last night, which, combined with a Guardians victory over the A&#8217;s earlier in the evening, pushed [&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":[123,9687,111,230,49],"class_list":["post-24808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-as","tag-guardians","tag-rangers","tag-tigers","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24808","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=24808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24809,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24808\/revisions\/24809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}