All year, the White Sox have more or less been treading water. Every time it feels like they might go on an extended tear to save their season and perhaps permanently put themselves in the playoff mix, they seemingly make a terrible decision or fall flat on their face.
Amidst the disappointment, Chicago’s game against the Orioles (+105) on Thursday night in Baltimore might have been the low point.
While holding onto a 3-2 lead at the bottom of the ninth inning and the Orioles already on their last out, the White Sox had a chance to close the game out and head home with the win. But when Kyle Stowers popped up an easy foul ball straight to Adam Engel’s glove … he just dropped it.
And on the very next play, Stowers made Chicago pay by tying the game with his first career home run:
KYLE STOWERS TIES THE BALL GAME!!! pic.twitter.com/iRumHd1PMK
— Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) August 26, 2022
Oh man, that’s brutal. Well, at least the White Sox could salvage it in extras, right? Wrong.
With a runner on second at the top of the 11th, Baltimore reliever Felix Bautista struck Luis Robert out:
Made ya swing x3 😉 pic.twitter.com/lPGgjfnEbR
— Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) August 26, 2022
When their turn came up in the 11th, the Orioles and Anthony Santander did not waste their chance:
This @Orioles team is extremely fun. #walkoff
(MLB x @CapitalOne) pic.twitter.com/j3q4cRwWaY
— MLB (@MLB) August 26, 2022
Of all the ways to blow a game, it increasingly seems like the White Sox are almost manufacturing new ways to lose. On that note, I’ll retract a previous statement. Given how their season has gone to this stage, this stunning loss to the Orioles might only be the low point of the White Sox’s season so far.
White Sox fans could not believe the stunning defeat to the Orioles
The torment White Sox fans have been forced to go through is absurd, all things considered. Frustration and heartbreak readily available multiple games a week during the season. And bigger picture dysfunction looming over it all. They oughta get a medal or a plaque.
— M@ (@MattSpiegel670) August 26, 2022
This team continues to kill themselves in ways that aren’t even really imaginable. #WhiteSox
— Aaron Leming (@AaronLemingNFL) August 26, 2022
White Sox fans right now pic.twitter.com/iYZf3E5Qi2
— jon greenberg (@jon_greenberg) August 26, 2022
The 2022 Chicago White Sox keep finding ways to disappoint me.
Unreal.
— Vinnie Parise (@VinnieParise) August 26, 2022
It’s hilarious we can ask once every four or five days “Is that the White Sox’s worst loss of the season?” and it’s always genuine and not an exaggerated or over-the-top question.
— Cody Westerlund (@CodyWesterlund) August 26, 2022
White Sox have officially clocked out for the season
— Ali White (@aliwhitesox) August 26, 2022
As @leilarahimi said perfectly yesterday, you don't watch White Sox baseball, you take it.
— Adam Hoge (@AdamHoge) August 26, 2022
The 2022 White Sox pic.twitter.com/t6852wf8e9
— Kyle (@JimLavaLamp) August 26, 2022
