30-3

Yesterday the Texas Rangers were down 0-3 to the Baltimore Orioles in the fourth inning of the first game of a double header. By the end of the game they had rattled off 30 unanswered runs, the first team in over a century to do so (in 1897 the Chicago Colts beat Louisville 36-7). Sure, that's impressive, but if you look at the stats it gets even better.

-The Rangers scored 30 runs, but they only had 29 hits. There was one error committed by the Orioles and 8 walks given up by the four Oriole pitchers. So the Rangers left only 8 men on base in a game in which they had 38 baserunners. To put it another way, a Rangers baserunner had a 79% chance of scoring during yesterday's game.

-All the 30 runs were earned, so the one baserunner that reached because of error didn't score.

-The four Oriole pitchers combined to strike out 11 Rangers.

-Of the 29 hits for Texas, 21 were singles. 21! 2 were doubles and 6 were home runs. I only find this impressive because I'm fairly certain the Twins could find a way to hit 21 singles over the course of a game and not score any runs.

All in all, a massively impressive show of offense.