They Scored Five During the National Anthem…
Wow.
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Texas Rangers became the first team in 110 years to score 30 runs in a game, setting an American League record Wednesday in a 30-3 rout of the Baltimore Orioles.
Only six times in recorded baseball history has a team scored 30 runs. The last time it happened was in 1897 when the Chicago Colts (the team that in 1902 changed its name to the “Cubs”) beat the Louisville Colonels 36-7 and set a major-league record for most runs in a game.
If the Rangers score 5 runs in the second game tonight, they’ll set the record for most runs scored in a doubleheader. Right now, in the bottom of the second, they’ve scored 3. That puts them ahead of the Minnesota Twins, who scored 32 in a doubleheader earlier this year. The’ll need to score 6 to break the 1939 record set by the Boston Red Sox.
It’s definitely not a good night to be an Orioles pitcher.
UPDATE: The Rangers racked up 9 in the second game, so the record is theirs.
Why do I love baseball? Here are some cool stat-head facts from the game:
• Texas set modern records for runs in game (30) and doubleheader (39).
• Scored 39 runs, but only scored in eight different innings (four in each game).
• The Rangers’ starting 8-9 hitters had 19 RBIs. Their starting No. 3 hitter (Michael Young) had one.
• Followed up two-game stretch of two runs, 30 K’s, with 30-run game. [They also struck out 11 times in this game. The 30 was more than they had scored in their previous nine combined - Jimmie]
• Rangers pitcher Wes Littleton earned save in game won by 27 runs.
The best little fact I heard last night was that the Rangers’ 30 was more than was scored by NFL teams in a bit over 64 percent of all the games last season (which means that the Rangers would have won those games).
Now that’s run-scoring.
Soccer Dad has a great roundup, including a couple flashbacks to other Orioles blowouts (including the drubbing from 1996 that I remember). He also invokes one of the finest games in Orioles history (and one I remember watching on television) – the Tippy Martinez “pick off the side” game in 1983.
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