Comments on: Texas 30, Baltimore 3

By: The Baseball Exchange

The Baseball Exchange — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:57:49 +0000

[...] things about that game: only four pitchers were used. For all thirty runs. (BR-ref.com had a similar observation, and some other interesting notes.) The weird thing about it was that it wasn’t one of those [...]

By: statboy

statboy — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:42:09 +0000

David,

The A's once threw 263 pitches in just 8 innings.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET199304130.shtml

The Royals once threw 345 in 18 innings.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/KCA/KCA199106060.shtml

By: BrettP22

BrettP22 — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:24:57 +0000

It would have been embarassing if he had blown the save.

By: dustininminny

dustininminny — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:21:53 +0000

Wes Littleton earned a save for his efforts last night. Thats sweet.

By: BrettP22

BrettP22 — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:56:51 +0000

I don't have the capability to look up, but I would venture to say no back-to-back players in the batting order have had 7 RBIs each......and coming from the 8 and 9 spot makes it more special.

By: BrettP22

BrettP22 — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:55:13 +0000

In this game, Jason Botts became the first player in a 9 inning game to have at least 3 hits and 4 strikeouts (according the PI, so over the last 50 years)

By: David in Toledo

David in Toledo — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:47:41 +0000

I see that in the 2004 Yankee 22-run game, Clevelanders threw 218 pitches. And in the 1996 Colorado 21-run game, Expos threw 214 pitches. Apparently there isn't data for the earlier games you list, and I can understand that keeping track of every pitch is a statistical pain. In last night's 30-3 game, however, Baltimore pitchers seem to have thrown 252 pitches. In a 9-inning game for which pitch counts have been kept, is that a record? I wonder what the record is for pitches thrown by one staff in an extra-inning game. . . . At least in an extra-inning game there would be some purpose to all the work, because there's some chance that your team might actually win.

By: trent_mccotter

trent_mccotter — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:09:35 +0000

For teams that've scored 30 runs before, the fewest innings in which they scored was 6:

7/3/1883, CHI NL: 8-0-3-6-0-1-0-9-4 (31)
6/18/1893, CIN NL: 14-0-1-4-0-3-6-2-x (30)

The most innings scored was nine:

6/29/1897, CHI NL: 3-5-7-1-2-1-2-7-8 (36)

By: kingturtle

kingturtle — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:39:14 +0000

Here are some other interesting tidbits from the boxscore:
*14 RBIs came from the 8th and 9th batting spots. Could that be a record? There were 4 HRs in the 8th and 9th batting spots. Is that a record?
*In the Texas starting line-up, only one player had more that 50 RBIs this season, Michael Young. He didn't have any RBIs in the game; while Saltalamacchia, who had 5 RBIs going into the game, amassed 7 RBIs in the game; David Murphy had 1 RBI going into the game and had 2 in the game.
*Talk about a meager line-up, of the 10 Rangers who played, Michael Young was the only one who ever notched 100 RBIs in a season. In fact, Michael Young was the only one of the ten who ever notched 60 RBIs in a season. Frank Catalanotto had 59 in a season twice. SIX or SEVEN of the 10 players are basically platoon guys.
*The Rangers had 29 hits for those 30 runs.
*Jason Botts went 3 for 7 with 4 Ks.
*Texas is in LAST PLACE and has the 2nd worst record in the AL.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:18:45 +0000

By the way, this sure was a nice reward for Dave Trombley being named manager for 2008. Maybe he'll reconsider?