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On April 29, 1988, the Baltimore Orioles won a baseball game for the first time all season. The score was 9-0 against — who else? — the White Sox at Comiskey Park. Eddie Murray and Cal Ripken Jr. each homered, leading one to wonder all these years later how a team with two Hall of Famers in the lineup every day could start out 0-21.
That’s still the longest losing streak — 21 games — that any American League team has had in the modern era, which goes back to 1900.