BALTIMORE, Aug. 23, 2007
Texas Baseball Massacre
Rangers Blast Baltimore 30-3; Highest Run Total By MLB Team Since 1897
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Baltimore pitcher Daniel Cabrera can't bear to watch after he gave up a game-tying 3-run home run in the fourth inning. Texas went on to score 27 more runs. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
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After taking a 3-0 lead going into the fourth inning, the Baltimore Orioles gave up 30 unanswered runs to Texas, ending up on the infamous side of history Wednesday Aug. 22, 2007. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
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Texas didn't quite get the 31 runs Cruz called for, but it did set an AL record for most runs in a doubleheader, topping the 36 scored by Detroit in 1937.
"What am I going to remember about today? Thirty runs scored in one game and having to play another one after that," Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler said. "It was a very strange day."
The second game was a mere postscript for a wacky opener.
It was the ninth time a major league team scored 30 runs, the first since the Chicago Colts set the major league mark in a 36-7 rout of Louisville in a National League game on June 28, 1897, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Trailing 3-0 in the opener of a doubleheader, Texas couldn't be stopped. Finally, the last-place Rangers did something right.
"We set a record for something on the good side of baseball," manager Ron Washington said.
Hours after announcing manager Dave Trembley would return for the 2008 season, the Orioles absorbed the most lopsided loss in franchise history and set a team record for hits allowed in a game (29).
"I'd say whatever we threw, they hit it. It's that simple," Trembley said. "They say hitting is contagious, and that certainly was the case in the first game. I've never seen anything like it."
The Rangers had totaled 28 runs in their previous nine games, including two runs on seven hits in their last two.
"I knew we'd get the bats going, but I never expected anything like this," Washington said. "When the faucet is on, you want it to stay on. You never want to cut it off."
The Rangers sent set a team record for runs scored in a doubleheader — before the second game even started.
"You don't want to be the one to make the out. You feel like you have to get a hit every time up," Byrd said.
Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Ramon Vazquez, the bottom two batters in Texas' lineup, each homered twice and finished with seven RBIs. The last time two teammates had as many as seven RBIs in a game was 1962, when Elston Howard had eight and Mickey Mantle added seven for the New York Yankees against the Kansas City Athletics.
"That was ridiculous. I have never been in anything like that in my life," said Saltalamacchia, who went 4-for-6 with a walk and scored five runs. He came in batting .179 and finished at .262.
David Murphy had five of the Rangers' 29 hits, the most by a major league team since Milwaukee had 31 in a 22-2 victory over Toronto on Aug. 28, 1992, according to Elias.
Texas' 30 RBIs set a major league record. The Rangers had 57 at-bats, tying the AL mark for a nine-inning game set by Milwaukee in its 1992 rout of Toronto, and finished with more runs than outs made (27).
"Thirty is a football score, not a baseball score," Metcalf said. "It was just a great day."
How the Texas Rangers scored their record 30 runs in the first game of a doubleheader against the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday:
5 runs, 4 hits, 1 error, 1 left on.
9 runs, 10 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on.
10 runs, 7 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on.
6 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on.
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- I''m just glad it wasn''t against my Tigers! Then again the Tigers are the next World Series Champions anyway, so no team could light them up like this!
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- This is an awesome job done by the team. They inspired each other and came up winners; every one of them!
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- 30 runs? Wow, I licked 30 chickens!
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- Ways To Know Your Baseball Game is Gonna Go Badly:
1. Team shows up in bowling shoes;
2. Team mascot is now underdog;
3. Players continue to practice on X-box;
4. Players can''t stop spanking each others behind;
5. Before game starts pitcher comes out of the closet - Reply to this comment
- ===Steroid dealers must not have concentrated their sales to any particular clubhouse.===
You don''t need steroids to suck. Hard. Good job Baltimore. - Reply to this comment
- I suppose this can be a nice highlight to a really crappy season.
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- 30 runs wasn''t scored the entire 20th century?
Steroid dealers must not have concentrated their sales to any particular clubhouse. - Reply to this comment
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