Vazquez Joins CG Loss Club

With a winning-streak-snapping loss to the A's, the White Sox are now 0-4 this season when their starter goes the distance, a statistic that seems about as unlikely as them going 0-4 in games in which they hit a grand slam.

The Sox remarkably poor performance in well-pitched games sent me searching B-R's Play Index to see what the record was for complete game losses. Not surprisingly, the Sox have no shot at setting the (retrosheet era) record. As Hawk would say, it's a changed game. They do, however, have an outside shot at making a run at the more modern wild card era record of 9 complete game losses held by the 1998 Mariners. Those Mariners had a special contribution from more...