I'm watching the Jays-Orioles game tonight, still hoping that Toronto will post a winning season (they're 79-77 starting the day, and leading 8-3 midway through the fifth inning in Baltimore). During the play-by-play, the commentators referred to a game back on August 22nd of this year that I'd forgotten about, because it happened during my first week back to work and I was swamped.
The game was Texas Rangers at Baltimore, and the Orioles had actually been doing fairly well up to that point. In fact, at the end of the 3rd inning, they were up on Texas 3-0, and all looked well in lovely Maryland.
And then Texas scored 5 in the top of the 4th, to grab a 5-3 lead. The 5th was scoreless, followed by the Rangers piling on 9 additional runs in their half of the 6th, to go up 14-3! It was starting to look like a football score (Ravens vs Cowboys?) but it was far from over. Another scoreless inning (the 7th) was followed by a third explosion of offense by the Rangers, to the tune of 10 more runs, in the 8th!! Up 24-3, you'd think that would've been it, but no, in the top of the 9th, they tacked on another half dozen runs, to finish with a 30-3 win on the road! Yeah, that's a football score, alright!
Imagine if you paid a lot of money for a great seat to that game, and then got to watch your beloved Orioles allow 30 runs in a single game! That's more than most teams give up in a 4-game series! Sometimes both teams don't score 30 runs between them in 4 games!
Ironically, that was Game 1 of a doubleheader, and the Rangers "only" produced 9 runs in the 2nd game, winning it 9-7. (I think the Orioles have gone something like 9 wins and 24 losses since those games.)
There must've been something in the air that night, though, as a few other games were crazy, too: Cleveland beat Detroit 11-8, the Dodgers beat the Phillies 15-3, and Pittsburgh clobbered Colorado 11-2. Maybe it was Let Your Mascot Pitch The Game Night in the majors or something?
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