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Krogoth · Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:39 pm

Baltimore Orioles were completely humiliated in their game against Texas Ranger. A score of 30-3! They beat the previous record for the most points score in a modern baseball game that was set in 1897!

The Texas Rangers were the last place team in their division and the Orioles had a 3-point lead in the beginning.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti ... 0/SPORTS12

FireGryphon · Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:46 pm

Wow, that's amazing.

Krogoth wrote:
the Orioles had a 3-point lead in the beginning.

No they didn't. They were three runs ahead.

Usacomp2k3 · Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:47 pm

Amazing indeed. Especially since they suck

Rolling20s · Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:39 am

Best part was, the 30-3 drubbing came in the first game of a double-header. Yikes. Talk about a morale problem (not to mention pitching problems) for the Orioles.

Usacomp2k3 · Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:47 am

And they still managed to win the next game 9-7. That's a total of 39 run scored in 1 day.

idchafee · Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:08 am

And they traded their best hitter at the trade deadline

ifittakesforever · Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:17 am

I'm surprised that the Orioles didn't have one of their position players finish out the game by pitching. Normally if you're getting blown out, you get the guy who thinks he can pitch to get in there and save the pitching staff, especially since it was a double header. For years I always wanted to see what Shawon Dunston could do on the mound during one of many Cub blow out defeats, but he resisted the urge.

MethylONE · Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:21 am

Maybe they should implement a mercy rule...

idchafee · Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:47 am

ifittakesforever wrote:
I'm surprised that the Orioles didn't have one of their position players finish out the game by pitching. Normally if you're getting blown out, you get the guy who thinks he can pitch to get in there and save the pitching staff, especially since it was a double header.

As long as it wasn't a good position player. Remember Jose Canseco.

ifittakesforever wrote:
For years I always wanted to see what Shawon Dunston could do on the mound during one of many Cub blow out defeats, but he resisted the urge.

I always wanted to see Andre Dawson pitch.

ifittakesforever · Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:00 am

Canseco thought he could throw a knuckleball and blew out his elbow. Don't you have to throw hard to hurt your elbow? Must have been the 'roids. Wade Boggs and Mark Grace each got to pitch in blow outs towards the end of their careers. The Cubbies used to have little Doug Dascenzo save the bullpen for them way back when. He even had a 0.00 ERA, too.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/d/dascedo01.shtml

idchafee · Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:04 am

ifittakesforever wrote:
The Cubbies used to have little Doug Dascenzo save the bullpen for them way back when. He even had a 0.00 ERA, too.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/d/dascedo01.shtml

Doug Dascenzo was awesome. I have a #29 Doug Dascenzo Cubs home jersey.

Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:06 am

ifittakesforever wrote:
Wade Boggs and Mark Grace each got to pitch in blow outs towards the end of their careers.

Interesting baseball fact .......

IIRC Wade Boggs is the only player in MLB history to play every position for at least 1 inning in his career. The 1 inning he pitched against Anaheim was a shutout.

Turkina · Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:09 am

At that point, they wanted to get the outs...get their position players off the field, and get ready for the second game of the doubleheader. The pitch counts and lines on their relievers are amazing....
Burres 0.2 IP, 9 base runners, 8 earned runs, 34 pitches
Bell: 1.1 IP, 8 base runners, 7 earned runs, 54 pitches
Shuey: 2.0 IP, 10 base runners, 9 earned runs, 68 pitches

Thats 156 pitches to get 4 innings of work...
amazingly bad
~Turkina

Fighterpilot · Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:09 am

Speaking of baseball....anyone here been following the progress of rookie 21year old Jaba(The Hutt)Chamberlain?
In today's game he was throwing 97-101mph with a wicked slider that once again had the batters looking lost.He really is something special (so far) 13 strikeouts in 7 innings pitched...ERA=0.0
Apparently"Jaba Rules"(Yankees management plan for him)has become a well known phrase in NY already....he's quite a phenom(AMD pun) :lol:

idchafee · Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:44 am

yet they managed to strike out 11 guys, which isn't bad. 8 walks doesn't help.

UberGerbil · Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:20 pm

Yeah, that Texas game was epic. It's not often a team does something that hasn't been done since 1897. Three-run homers in the 4th, the 8th, and the ninth; grandslams in the sixth and the eighth (the latter in the one and only AB by Travis Metcalf, of whom you’ve never heard because he was called up from AAA Oklahoma just that morning).

And yet, in spite of all that, nobody on the Rangers got close to Garrett Anderson's 10 RBIs from the Angel's rout of the Yankees the night before.

derFunkenstein · Sun Aug 26, 2007 8:21 pm

Hoser wrote:
ifittakesforever wrote:
Wade Boggs and Mark Grace each got to pitch in blow outs towards the end of their careers.

Interesting baseball fact .......

IIRC Wade Boggs is the only player in MLB history to play every position for at least 1 inning in his career. The 1 inning he pitched against Anaheim was a shutout.

The Secret Weapon disagrees with your Boggs fact. He actually pitched not one, but six innings in his career with a lifetime record of 0-1. That means he pitched in not just a blowout, but a close game at one point...and lost. :lol:

There have also been several position players to pitch in games this year...Aaron Miles (the shortest reliever the Cardinals had) and Scott Speizio (now in rehab) both did so for St. Louis this year. That's how bad the Cardinals are, yet they are "roaring" back towards the division title.

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