Even if you don’t like baseball, you have to appreciate what the Texas Rangers did to the Baltimore Orioles yesterday. A 30-3 rout, are you kidding?!?!

No joke. It really happened.

via MLB.com:

Both the eighth and ninth hitters in the order, infielder Ramon Vazquez and catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia, notched two homers and seven RBIs. The last time two players had seven RBIs in the same game was when the New York Yankees faced the Kansas City A’s in 1962, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The two batters? Yankee greats Elston Howard and Mickey Mantle.

The eighth and ninth hitters got into the beating in a big way.

Two batters with seven Runs Batted In on the same team? Yikes! The closest to scoring 30 runs in the last century was Boston vs. St. Louis on June 8, 1950. Prior to the 1900s there were several 30 or more runs scored games including the all time highest major league baseball scoring contest on June 29, 1897: Chicago vs. Louisville (NL). In that game Chicago scored 36 runs.

What’s amazing to me is that if you look at the score (pictured right), 16 of the runs were scored in the 8th and 9th inning. Usually that late in a game, the bench and scrubs are playing. Also there is a sense of not rubbing it in that often prevents run-ups in a rout. I wonder if Baltimore will take this beating personally and some Rangers will be getting drilled in the ribs somewhere down the line.

If you check out the videos (see link) not that many people were at the game. Kind of reminds me of the great Wilt Chamberlain NBA game where he scored 100 points. Luckily for the Rangers romp, the cameras were rolling to capture the history.

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