Following up on Chris' post, what an egg the White Sox just laid losing to the Twins 20-14.

In the last 50 years, a team has scored at least 14 runs and lost the game just 22 times:

 Cnt Date          Tm   Opp GmReslt  PA  AB  R  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS LOB Batrs
+----+-------------+---+----+-------+---+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+---+--+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+-----+
    1 2004-06-19    CHW @MON L 14-17  50  41 14 15  4  0  2  14  7   1  5   2  0  0   1   1  0  1   9    19 
    2 2004-05-08    DET @TEX L 15-16  53  45 15 16  3  0  1  15  6   0  7   1  1  0   0   0  1  0   8     9 
    3 2001-08-29    SDP @STL L 14-16  49  43 14 15  4  0  4  14  6   1 11   0  0  0   1   1  1  0   8    17 
    4 2001-08-05    SEA @CLE L 14-15  54  50 14 17  4  0  0  13  2   0  7   1  0  1   1   0  0  0   7    14 
    5 2000-05-14    CHC @MON L 15-16  51  46 15 21  1  0  3  14  4   0  9   1  0  0   0   0  6  0   9    17 
    6 2000-05-05    OAK @TEX L 16-17  51  43 16 16  3  0  5  16  8   0  8   0  0  0   1   0  0  1   8    11 
    7 1998-09-14    DET  CHW L 16-17  60  58 16 22  4  1  3  16  1   1 10   0  0  1   2   0  1  0   8    14 
    8 1998-07-05    CHW @BOS L 14-15  48  39 14 12  4  0  2  11  8   0  3   1  0  0   2   2  0  0   7    10 
    9 1996-06-30    LAD @COL L 15-16  51  44 15 18  2  1  6  15  6   0 12   0  0  1   0   0  2  0   9    15 
   10 1990-07-15    ATL  MON L 14-16  52  49 14 20  2  0  5  14  3   0  5   0  0  0   2   0  1  0  11    18 
   11 1988-07-30    CHW  CAL L 14-15  50  42 14 15  2  2  3  14  7   1  6   0  0  1   1   0  0  0   9     9 
   12 1987-06-29    TOR  NYY L 14-15  48  44 14 16  3  0  3  13  4   0  6   0  0  0   1   0  1  0   7    13 
   13 1985-09-24    CHC  MON L 15-17  51  46 15 20  2  0  3  15  4   0  4   0  0  1   1   0  1  1   9    22 
   14 1979-05-17    CHC  PHI L 22-23  59  56 22 26  3  1  6  22  3   0  4   0  0  0   2   2  0  0   7    19 
   15 1977-07-28    CIN @CHC L 15-16  69  58 15 19  5  0  5  14 10   4 12   0  1  0   3   2  6  0  15    16 
   16 1976-04-17    CHC  PHI L 16-18  58  48 16 19  5  0  3  16  6   1  7   3  1  0   1   1  0  0  12    18 
   17 1970-07-03    CHC  PIT L 14-16  50  40 14 18  5  0  2  14  9   2  6   0  1  0   0   1  0  0   9    18 
   18 1970-05-23    SFG  SDP L 16-17  76  60 16 23  2  0  4  16 10   3 12   0  6  0   0   1  1  2  15    22 
   19 1969-08-03    PHI  CIN L 17-19  51  47 17 21  4  1  3  17  4   1  6   0  0  0   1   2  1  0   7    18 
   20 1961-07-23(2) KCA  DET L 14-17  54  46 14 17  5  0  2  13  7   0  9   1  0  0   2   0  1  0  13    17 
   21 1959-09-07(1) DET @CLE L 14-15  45  39 14 13  2  0  4  14  6   1  3   0  0  0   0   1  0  0   4    12 

The 22nd game is today's performance by Chicago(A). There are some very memorable games in there, including the 23-22 Phillies/Cubs debacle. Amazingly, though, you can see that no team on this list lost by more than 3 runs. Well, congrats to Ozzie Guillen's crew for shattering that record and losing by 6 runs.

Ouch.

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