The Chicago White Sox were not only eliminated from the playoffs with a Game 5 loss to the Cleveland Guardians, but they made some unwanted history again. <\/p>\n
Just two games ago in Game 3 of the American League Division Series, the White Sox struck out 19 times, setting an MLB record for the most strikeouts by a team in a nine-inning playoff game. <\/p>\n
That record had stood for six years, but the new record only stood for three days. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s because the White Sox struck out a staggering 21 times on Saturday night, losing 2-0 to the Guardians and finding themselves eliminated from the postseason. <\/p>\n
The 21 strikeouts are just two strikeouts shy of any game in playoff history, with the Baltimore Orioles striking out 23 times in a 12-inning game during the 1996 postseason. <\/p>\n
Sam Antonacci was the only White Sox player not to strike out in the game, and both Munetaka Murakami and Andrew Benintendi were 0-for-4 with four strikeouts apiece. Chase Meidroth and Kyle Teel each struck out three times in the game. <\/p>\n
In total, the White Sox struck out a staggering 52 times in the final three games of the series after taking a 2-0 lead with two straight wins in Cleveland. <\/p>\n
Gavin Williams started for Cleveland and struck out 12 batters, and he had struck out 11 batters in Game 2 of the series. Hunter Gaddis and Cade Smith each struck out four in their appearances, capping off a remarkable pitching performance by the Guardians in the final games of the series. <\/p>\n
Now, the White Sox are left to wonder what could have been, and the Guardians will advance to the American League Division Series, where they will face the Tampa Bay Rays. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago White Sox were not only eliminated from the playoffs with a Game 5 loss to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,5256,591,85],"class_list":["post-924207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}