How Bad Teams Lose

The White Sox are a bad—make that very, very bad—team, so inept they may come close to breaking their own record for losses (121) in a season. Witness yesterday afternoon. With the score tied at four, rookie Chase Meidroth hit an opposite-field single to die for or, in this case, to score the go-ahead run. That put runners on the corners, one out. Miguel Vargas, on his way to an 0-for-4 day, then struck out. With runners on second and third after Meidroth stole second, Matt Thaiss also fanned. So, the Sox settled for a 5-4 lead. Which lasted all of four pitches, until reliever Mike Vasil could give up a single and two-run homerun, the latter to Leody Taveras, the #7 hitter; it was Taveras’s second homer in 123 at-bats. The 25-year old Vasil is on his fourth organization since December, by the way. Andrew Vaughn singled to open the bottom of the ninth, but, being a very, very bad team, the Sox failed to score. Nothing says “train wreck” better than being 20 games under .500 going into Memorial Day weekend.