NPR: 'Something Freaky' in Baltimore: Rangers Get 30 Runs

'Something Freaky' in Baltimore: Rangers Get 30 Runs

Take me out to the football game, take me out to the crowd...

That's what the box score of the first game of a double-header Wednesday between the Texas Rangers and the Baltimore Orioles resembled. Texas got four touchdowns and a safety, and Baltimore got a field goal — 30 to 3. But in the land of baseball, Texas' 30 runs broke the previous record of 29 for the most scored by an American League team.

Baltimore Sun sports reporter Roch Kubatko notes that Baltimore now falls to 0-1 in games decided by 27 runs. As Marlon Byrd, who hit one of two Texas grand slams, said after the game, "This is something freaky." (If you want to know more about what it's like to see so many runs scored in just one game, Day to Day's Alex Chadwick talked to Dallas Morning News sports writer Evan Grant.)

The last time a major league team got that many runs in a game was in 1897, when the Chicago Colts (now the Cubs) scored 36 against Louisville in the National League. Did players even use gloves back then?

No doubt this will start a debate about the need for a mercy rule in baseball.

1:30 PM ET | 08-23-2007 | permalink

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I wonder if steroids was involved and if MLB will investigate?

Sent by dans | 3:34 PM ET | 08-24-2007

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