Never Allowed Ten
Posted by Raphy on June 1, 2010
While every team in baseball has now scored 10 runs at least once, there are still 2 teams that have not yet allowed 10 runs to score in a game. Surprisingly, itsĀ 19-31 Mariners who join theĀ Phillies in having avoided this fate so far, although each team has allowed 9 runs on 2 separate occasions. To do this for an entire season would be a historic feat, as only 3 teams have accomplished this since 1901 and no team has done so with a 162 game schedule. Here are the 3 teams:
Runs Games Wins Loss W-L%
+----+-----+----+----+-----+
0 32 32 0 1.000
1 28 25 3 .893
2 22 18 4 .818
3 25 16 9 .640
4 21 7 12 .368
5 12 2 10 .167
6 10 3 7 .300
7 2 1 1 .500
8 2 0 2 .000
9 1 0 1 .000
+----+-----+----+----+-----+
Runs Games Wins Loss W-L%
+----+-----+----+----+-----+
0 19 19 0 1.000
1 21 14 6 .700
2 20 16 3 .842
3 19 10 9 .526
4 17 8 9 .471
5 11 2 9 .182
6 5 2 3 .400
7 6 1 5 .167
8 9 0 9 .000
9 3 0 3 .000
+----+-----+----+----+-----+
Runs Games Wins Loss W-L%
+----+-----+----+----+-----+
0 9 9 0 1.000
1 13 12 1 .923
2 19 16 3 .842
3 15 8 7 .533
4 16 4 12 .250
5 10 3 7 .300
6 8 1 7 .125
7 15 3 12 .200
8 3 0 3 .000
9 3 0 3 .000
+----+-----+----+----+-----+
June 1st, 2010 at 6:02 pm
It seems that no team has gone through a season since 1901 without scoring 10 runs at least once, but one team went through a season without winning a game in which they scored 10 runs. That would be the 1981 Astros, who lost, 15-12, the only game in which they scored 10 or more runs.
June 1st, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Oops. "Never scored ten" didn't show up in the Related Posts list for this post, and I must have misinterpreted the results of the search I did. Kindly ignore earlier comment.
June 1st, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Three teams from the leagues' lowest-runs-per-game seasons allowed ten runs in only a single game: the 1908 Superbas (Brooklyn), the 1908 Naps (Cleveland), and the 1968 Dodgers.
By contrast, the 1930 Phillies gave up ten or more runs in a game 45 times, winning four, and the 1899 Cleveland Spiders 50 times, winning none.