With their 121st loss of the season, the White Sox now stand alone as the losingest team in modern baseball history.

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

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

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

The same question could also be asked of the 2024 White Sox.

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