{"id":24745,"date":"2026-09-08T12:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24745"},"modified":"2026-09-07T15:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:38:36","slug":"sweet-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/sweet-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2379\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/16.jpg 500w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/16-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/16-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/16-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite an off day, the White Sox saw their magic number to clinch the AL Central division drop to 16 yesterday thanks to the Orioles defeating the Guardians 6-4 in Baltimore.\u00a0 The White Sox start a three-game series at home tonight against the Pirates, while the Guardians continue their battle with the Orioles.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 White Sox sit with 75 wins, the most in MLB history for a team coming off of at least three straight 100-loss seasons.\u00a0 They are looking to become the first team to ever make the post-season after two straight 100-loss seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite an off day, the White Sox saw their magic number to clinch the AL Central division drop to 16 yesterday thanks to the Orioles defeating the Guardians 6-4 in Baltimore.\u00a0 The White Sox start a three-game series at home tonight against the Pirates, while the Guardians continue their battle with the Orioles. The 2026 [&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":[9687,2531,50,112,49],"class_list":["post-24745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-guardians","tag-magic-number","tag-orioles","tag-pirates","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24746,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24745\/revisions\/24746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}