With their 121st loss of the season, the White Sox are now alone as the team with the most losses in modern baseball history.

The record breaker came on Friday evening with a 4-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers.

White Sox ace Garrett Crochet held the Tigers at bay for four innings, but the dam finally broke in the fifth inning after he was lifted. Detroit rallied against Jared Shuster to score two runs to break a scoreless tie, and that was enough (although the Tigers added two more runs in the seventh for good measure). Zach DeLoach’s solo home run in the sixth was the only run the White Sox could muster.

The loss ends a tie with the 1962 New York Mets, who finished their first season with a 40-120 record, prompting manager Casey Stengel to lament, “Can’t nobody play this game here?”

The same question could be asked for the 2024 White Sox.

Chicago (39-121) suffered a losing streak of 21, 14 and 12 games this season, with the longest streak leading to the firing of manager Pedro Grifol in early August.