August 22, 2007

Rangers Score 30 Runs In The Win Over Orioles

Posted at: 11:37 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Sports and Leisure

Rangers Win

You never know what is going to happen when you play a baseball game, you can win or you can lose, but I have never seen this. At the end of the 5th inning, the Rangers were on top of the Orioles 5-3, but an outstanding performance of the Rangers offense changed all that. The Rangers scored 9 times in the top of the 6th making the score 14-3, which is a pretty good score but they were not done yet.

The Orioles bullpen has collapsed a lot this season, like when the Red Sox scored 6 runs in the bottom of the 9th, but this is a whole new kind of break down. In the top of the 8th with the score still 14-3, the Rangers piled on 10 more runs bringing the new score to 24-3. However they were not satisfied yet. They added another 6 runs making the final score 30-3. This record is the most runs by one team in a game: On June 29, 1897 The Chicago Colts (now the Cubs) (NL) beat the Lousiville Colonels (NL) 36-7. It is the record for most runs by an American League team since the “modern era” (after 1900). The Rangers got 29 hits with 2 grand slams in their win tonight.

The winning pitcher was Kason Gabbard who was with the Boston Red Sox until the trading deadline when we traded him for Gayne (who is yet to impress Red Sox Nation). Also former Red Sox player David Murphy (2007) went 5/7 scoring each time he was on base. This game will go down as one of the strangest games in all of baseball. It is understandable if the Red Sox (who lead the AL East) scored that many runs, because we have come close to that, but the Rangers…they are 55-70 on the year and 19 games behind the Angels in the AL West. The Rangers scored 5% of their runs this entire season tonight (616 in 2007).

Unfortunately the Red Sox lost tonight 2-1 and at the time of this post, the Yankees were tied with the Angels 1-1.

rangers, score, mlb, american league, runs, orioles, gabbard, kason gabbard, record

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