Every mistake, in order.

The 121st Loss

On September 27, 2024, the White Sox lost their 121st game and passed the 1962 Mets. They finished 41–121. The season included a franchise-record losing streak of 21.

Chicago White Sox · Detroit Tigers

Marcano's Lifetime Ban

Major League Baseball banned Tucupita Marcano for life for betting on baseball, including 25 bets on Pirates games while he was on Pittsburgh's roster. It was the first lifetime gambling ban since Pete Rose in 1989.

San Diego Padres · Pittsburgh Pirates

Hoberg Is Fired

Pat Hoberg, one of the league's most accurate ball-strike umpires, was fired for sharing legal betting accounts with a poker player who bet on baseball, and for deleting messages. Major League Baseball found no evidence he had bet on the game himself.

The Reverse Boycott

On June 13, 2023, 27,759 people, the season's largest crowd, came to the Coliseum to tell John Fisher to sell the Athletics. They wore shirts that said SELL. The club left Oakland after the 2024 season.

Oakland Athletics · Tampa Bay Rays

A Game Ends on the Clock

On the first full day of the pitch clock, Cal Conley was not set in the box at the eight-second mark with the bases loaded in the ninth. Umpire John Libka called an automatic strike three, and a spring game ended in a tie.

Atlanta Braves · Boston Red Sox

Betts to the Dodgers

Boston sent Mookie Betts and David Price to Los Angeles for Alex Verdugo, Jeter Downs, and Connor Wong. A three-team version of the deal had already collapsed over a medical file.

Boston Red Sox · Los Angeles Dodgers · Minnesota Twins

Arozarena to Tampa

St. Louis traded Randy Arozarena and José Martínez for Matthew Liberatore and other pieces. That October Arozarena hit ten home runs in the postseason, a record, on the way to the World Series.

St. Louis Cardinals · Tampa Bay Rays

Bauer Throws It Over the Fence

When Terry Francona came to take him out in the fifth, Trevor Bauer turned and threw the baseball over the center-field fence at Kauffman Stadium. He apologized after the game. Cleveland traded him within the week.

Cleveland Indians · Kansas City Royals

Davis Goes 0-for-54

In the middle of a seven-year, $161 million contract, Chris Davis went 0-for-54, the longest hitless streak by a position player in major-league history. The streak ended on April 13, 2019.

Baltimore Orioles

Archer to Pittsburgh

At the 2018 deadline Pittsburgh sent Tyler Glasnow, Austin Meadows, and Shane Baz to Tampa Bay for Chris Archer. Archer's earned-run average in Pittsburgh stayed over 5. Meadows and Glasnow became the players the prospects had been advertised as.

Pittsburgh Pirates · Tampa Bay Rays

Three Errors by Conrad

In Game 3 of the 2010 NLDS, Brooks Conrad made three errors. The last one, on a two-out grounder in the ninth, let the Giants take a lead they did not give back.

Atlanta Braves · San Francisco Giants

Cabrera to Detroit

At the 2007 winter meetings the Marlins sent Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis to Detroit for six players, headed by Cameron Maybin and Andrew Miller.

Detroit Tigers · Florida Marlins

Pedro Martinez for Delino DeShields

The Dodgers needed a second baseman and traded Pedro Martinez to Montreal to get one. Pedro became one of the great pitchers of the era.

Los Angeles Dodgers · Montreal Expos

Disco Demolition Night

The White Sox blew up a crate of disco records between games of a doubleheader. Fans took the field, a fire started, and the second game was forfeited.

Chicago White Sox · Detroit Tigers

Three Errors in One Inning

In the fifth inning of World Series Game 2, Willie Davis lost two fly balls in the sun and threw one away. Three errors, three unearned runs, and Jim Palmer's shutout.

Los Angeles Dodgers · Baltimore Orioles

Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas

Cincinnati's Bill DeWitt called Frank Robinson an old thirty and traded him to Baltimore. The next year Robinson won the Triple Crown.

Cincinnati Reds · Baltimore Orioles

The Shot Heard 'Round the World

Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning homer off Ralph Branca is one of the famous swings in the sport. The Giants had stolen the sign.

New York Giants · Brooklyn Dodgers

Hack Wilson Loses the Ball in the Sun

The Cubs led Game 4 of the 1929 World Series by eight runs. In the seventh, Hack Wilson lost a fly ball in the sun, and the Athletics scored ten.

Chicago Cubs · Philadelphia Athletics

Ruth Is Out at Second

The 1926 World Series ended with Babe Ruth thrown out at second. He said he was stealing on his own. Other accounts say a hit-and-run was on.

New York Yankees · St. Louis Cardinals

Peckinpaugh's Eight Errors

The American League's Most Valuable Player committed eight errors in the 1925 World Series, two of them in a rainy seventh game the Senators led.

Washington Senators · Pittsburgh Pirates

Merkle's Boner

Fred Merkle, nineteen and starting in place of an injured regular, failed to touch second on a game-winning single. The league made the teams replay it, and the Cubs won the pennant.

New York Giants · Chicago Cubs

Chesbro's Wild Pitch

Jack Chesbro had already won 41 games. In the ninth of the pennant game, a spitball got past his catcher, and Boston scored the run that ended it.

New York Highlanders · Boston Americans