White Sox tie a single-season franchise record for futility by losing 13th straight game as Mike Tauchman, Cubs walk them off

(670 The Score) The lowly White Sox have matched a franchise record for futility.

The White Sox suffered their 13th straight loss with a 7-6 setback to the Cubs on Wednesday at Wrigley Field, where Mike Tauchman hit a walk-off solo home run in the bottom of the ninth to send the home crowd into a frenzy and the visitors into the record books for the wrong reason. The 13 straight losses tie the most the White Sox have ever had consecutively in a single season. The 1924 White Sox also suffered the same fate.

The White Sox have had a longer losing streak before, but it stretched over two seasons. From the end of the 1967 season into the start of the 1968 campaign, the White Sox lost 15 straight games.

This loss was sealed when Tauchman drilled a 1-0 fastball from White Sox reliever Michael Kopech the other way into the left-center field bleachers for the win. The White Sox had led 5-1 entering the bottom of the fifth inning, but their bullpen ended up blowing the game again, this time by allowing three runs in the seventh inning before Tauchman's big hit in the ninth. The White Sox also blew a 5-0 lead in an eventual 7-6 loss to the Cubs on Tuesday.

Unsurprisingly, the MLB-worst White Sox’s 15-47 record is their worst 62-game start in team history. The White Sox’s last win was May 21, when they earned a 5-0 road victory against the Blue Jays.

Earlier Wednesday, Athletic writer Ken Rosenthal reported that White Sox manager Pedro Grifol’s time on the job was running out. Prior to the game in the evening, Grifol addressed what it was like being on the hot seat.

“I am fine addressing these types of questions,” Grifol said. “I am not going to address it every day. But I don't focus on that stuff. This is a part of the job. We are not winning. When you're not winning, speculation is going to get higher and higher.

“This is part of what we do. You get signed up to win baseball games. When you don't, there is always a chance of a change to be made. I understand the question, and I understand the stories about it. I get it all.”