The Chicago White Sox broke the modern-day record for most losses in a Major League Baseball season with their 121st defeat of 2024.
They claimed the unwanted landmark with a 4-1 defeat at the Detroit Tigers.
“It’s not the year we wanted,” said Grady Sizemore, who took over as interim manager after Pedro Grifol was sacked in August.
Pitcher Garrett Crochet said: “Obviously it sucks.”
The White Sox equalled the New York Mets’ record from 1962 with their 120th loss of the season on Sunday.
Fans flocked to Chicago’s Guaranteed Rate Field this week to see the White Sox break the record, but they won three successive games against the Los Angeles Angels.
Victory for Detroit at Comerica Park secured their first American League play-off berth since 2014.
After the game the White Sox posted a picture on social media of a computer with a list of “Things we’d rather do than read comments” and a photo of the team mascot sitting against a wall with the caption “slams laptop shut ’til tomorrow”.