![]() ![]() This was the last of eight major-league games prior to 1900 in which 30 or more runs were scored by one team. In terms of scoring by one team in a single game, the Chicago NL team, then known as the White Stockings, set the record with its 36-7 victory over Louisville in 1897. There were seven other American League games, counting the 18-17 game earlier referred to, in which a combined total of exactly 35 runs were scored. 302 that year, becoming the last major league team to compile a season batting average of. Louis Browns 20-4 and 29-4 on consecutive afternoons in Boston’s Fenway Park. ![]() Earlier in June, the Red Sox had defeated the lowly St. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Philadelphia Athletics 22-14 on Jin a game which was played in Shibe Park, not the more comfortable Fenway Park in Boston. The American League, which became a major league in 1901 (25 years after the National League), has never had a game where more than 36 runs were scored. In 1890, in an American Association game when that circuit was a major league, Brooklyn defeated Syracuse by a score of 22-21 in Brooklyn - this being the largest 1-run decision in 9 innings. Cleveland shortstop Johnny Burnett made a record nine hits in the game, Jimmie Foxx had 16 total bases, and Rommel gained his only win of 1932 and his final major league victory. ![]() Rommel had hurled three innings the day before, but the Athletics were in a stretch where they had played doubleheaders on July 7, 8, and 9, with another one coming up on the 11th. He surrendered 14 runs and 29 hits, but wound up being the winning pitcher! When starter Lew Krausse (father of a later-day American League pitcher) yielded four hits and three runs in the first inning, Mack called on reliever Eddie Rommel, later an umpire, who was forced to hurl the rest of the way. In that game, the Athletics were on a one-day trip to Cleveland (no Sunday ball was permitted that year in Philadelphia) and Athletics Manager Connie Mack carried only two pitchers with him. In modern times, the top one-run game score prior to 1979 had been 18-17 in 18 innings on July 10, 1932, when the Philadelphia Athletics defeated the Cleveland Indians in an American League game. Those games mark the largest score in a one-run game in nine innings and the largest score by one team in one game, respectively. Two major league games had 43 runs scored, both coming in the 1890s, with scores of 22-21 and 36-7. Prior to the 1979 extravaganza, the second largest scoring game of all time was played in 1890 when Brooklyn of the Players League (a one-year major league) defeated Buffalo 28-16 on July 12 at Brooklyn. The Phillies and the Cubs had an additional marathon game in Chicago on Apwhen the Phillies blew a 12-1 lead, and wound up winning 18-16 in 10 innings on Mike Schmidt’s fourth consecutive home run of the game. ![]() The 1979 game stands as the highest score for an extra-inning game, as well as the highest score for a game decided by one run. While the 1979 game had a record-tying 11 home runs, the 1922 game had only 3 home runs, all by the winning Cubs. In the 1979 game, the Phillies saw a 21-9 lead vanish before finally emerging the victor, on Mike Schmidt’s second home run of the game (Dave Kingman of the Cubs hit three homers) in the 10th inning off relief ace Bruce Sutter. On August 25, 1922, the Cubs, who had once led 25-6, held on to win 26-23 for the all-time record score of 49 runs. The classic irony is that the only game where a greater two-team score was ever recorded was also played at Wrigley Field, and between the same two ball clubs. When the Phillies defeated the Cubs 23-22 in 10 innings on in the “friendly confines” of Wrigley Field in Chicago, it prompted research as to the other unusually high scoring games in the annals of baseball. Editor’s note: All statistics published below are through the 1979 season. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |