A couple of leads slipped away Wednesday for the White Sox. But Andrew Benintendi made sure the Sox didn’t stumble into baseball history.
Benintendi knocked in Miguel Vargas with a single in the 10th inning, giving the Sox a 4-3 victory against the Los Angeles Angels in front of 18,423 at Guaranteed Rate Field.
The Sox remained tied with the 1962 New York Mets for the most losses in a season during Major League Baseball’s modern era.
The ’62 Mets finished 40-120. The Sox are 38-120 with four games remaining. They wrap up the three-game series against the Angels on Thursday and finish the season with three at Detroit.
Korey Lee put the Sox ahead early Wednesday with a two-run home run in the second inning.
The Angels tied it with a pair of two-out runs in the fourth.
Sox starter Davis Martin surrendered a walk, hit a batter and gave up an infield single before exiting with the bases loaded and two outs in the inning. Taylor Ward greeted reliever Michael Soroka with a two-run single.
Martin allowed the two runs on three hits with four strikeouts and five walks in 3 2/3 innings.
The Sox regained the lead on a solo home run by Lenyn Sosa with one out in the fourth.
Enyel De Los Santos got out of a two-on, one-out jam in the seventh with a 6-4-3 double play, but the Angels tied it again in the eighth against reliever Justin Anderson.
Michael Stefanic executed an excellent bunt on a squeeze play and made it to first safely when no one was covering the bag for an RBI single, tying the score at 3.
It went to extra innings, where Benintendi delivered as the Sox secured a series victory, and held off history for another day.
