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Little did you know that when you watched Maracaibo, Venezuela beat the Netherlands, 21-2 in the Little League World Series on Tuesday, that it wouldn't be the most embarrassing wipeout of week. Meet your 2007 Baltimore Orioles, who lost 30-3 to the Texas Rangers on Wednesday. For Texas, it was the first time in modern baseball history that a team has scored 30 runs; a total not achieved in the majors since 1897, when the Chicago Colts pounded the Louisville Colonels 36-7.
It did fall short, of course, of the all-time professional record, when the Teatotallers beat the Gashouse Gorillas 55-54 in Baseball Bugs in 1946.
My favorite part, I think, is that the Orioles actually had a 3-0 lead at one point. Also, it was only the first game of a doubleheader ... the Rangers winning the nightcap 9-7. Brad Wilkerson, the only Ranger who played and did not have a hit in the two games, drove home the go-ahead run in Game 2 with a sacrifice fly in the eighth. The 39 runs established an AL record for most runs in a single day, in which the Rangers had 40 hits and 13 walks in 92 official at-bats. Ian Kinsler had 13 at-bats, and Texas rookie David Murphy had six hits. Another Rangers rookie, Travis Metcalf, had eight RBI. So can one game serve as a definitive indictment of the way an franchise is run, and be the cause for a wholesale overhaul? How can Peter Angelos, in the indecent scoreboard glare of a result 110 years in the making, not be totally panicking right now? Should the Orioles simply pack up and leave, and Camden Yards be plowed under and the earth salted as Rome did with Carthage? I'm thinking this is something that you just don't simply shake off, but I could be wrong.
• It's Hard To Pass Two Teams. Meanwhile, Albert Pujols did his own special thing with the number 30, homering for a career-best fifth consecutive game to become the first player in major league history to hit 30 homers in his first seven seasons. St. Louis beat the Marlins 6-4, keeping pace with first-place Chicago, three games back. The Cardinals are two games behind Milwaukee.
• We Never Thought He'd Sink To This. Derek Lowe went seven innings and Matt Kemp had a career-high four hits to lead the Dodgers over the injury-riddled-remains-of-what-formerly-were-the-Phillies, 15-3.
• Break Up The D-Rays. Hey, what gives? The Devil Rays beat the Red Sox for only the second time this season, B.J. Upton hitting a two-run homer off of Daisuke Matsuzaka as Tampa prevailed 2-1. New York, 8-2 winners over the Angels. are five games back in the East.
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Cal Ripken, Sr. is rolling over in his grave this morning.
How can Peter Angelos, in the indecent scoreboard glare of a result 110 years in the making, not be totally panicking right now?
Because there is still plenty of money to be made off people suffering from mesothelioma.
May I?
Fucking Angelos
Quotable this morning, from Fausto Carmona:
"What do I got to do to get some run support, choke a bitch?"
DRays relief...can continue to delay Elijah's entry into the Show.
/never going to happen
Hey, at least the O's threw a shutout in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 7th innings.
@Jack Cobra: And Cal Ripken Jr. is suddenly a few steps closer to joining him.
My favorite part is that they didn't score their first run until the 4th inning...and dropped 16 total in the 8th and 9th.
@Jack Cobra: So is Billy Ripken.
@Rob Iracane: They also struck out the side in the eighth... (in between giving up ten runs).
@Camp Tiger Claw: Sadly, FuckFace was not available for comment.
@Camp Tiger Claw: Fuck Face!
yeah, but the Gashouse Gorillas went on to win the world series that year.
Apparently I forgot that it was seppuku night at Camden Yards last night.
I'm amazed that a Chicago team--ok, more than 100 years ago--scored 30 runs and didn't lose.
I believe any Yankee re-cap needs to include a mention of Joba's performance. 1 i.p, 3 K's
Jesus Krispies... the Rangers still struck out 11 times!
I....ahhh fuck it.
I woke up this morning, and no news of Angelos killing himself?
I'm sorely disappointed.
Gee I wonder if anyone is going to say that looked like a football score. I bet no one has ever done that.
But then I realized Angelos would be making everyone happy by offing himself, and he would never want to do that.
@preciousroy:
Gotta be a new record on Hits/Strikeout ratio (new stat I invented I think, but I'm not well versed in baseball)
@Hustler of Culture: Remain calm, my man, all you need to do is clone Eric Bedard.
Of course the hard part is going to be getting Angelos to resign all five of him.
@Afino: Welcome to my daily routine
The last time Coolerpants pitched against the Dodgers, the Phillies WON 15-3, and this afternoon the Fabio Castro, the Model Dictator is pitching...with his whopping five relief appearances this season. Outstanding.
anybody ever read the A.M> Jump over at the WWL? I read it for the first time today (I swear) and read this which I found interesting...well, at least the last sentence:
"The Sun, the only professional team that calls a casino home, open up the WNBA playoffs Thursday against the red-hot Fever. Hey, did you know that the Sun used to be the Orlando Miracle, before the Magic sold the team to the Mohegan Indian tribe? Of course you did. Good thing for the Sun they didn't sell them to ESPN -- because then they'd be called the Blowhards. Am I right haters? "
Clearly someone's calling out the ol' internets on their ESPN hatred.
@Matt_T: Don't be silly, you can't score 30 goals in football.
@preciousroy: Hell forget all five, how about giving an extension the original?
This is the most publicity the O's have gotten since losing 23 in a row.
Then again, if you live in Baltimore (aka "Charm City" or "The City that Reads" according to the highway signs), you are probably used to this level of suffering.
What was the name of that cartoon that's posted there? My buddy and I were singing that during Rice's 10 run 9th inning at the CWS a few months ago.
Yes, break up the Devil Rays!
(Hides Carl Crawford under his coat and runs back to Boston...)
actually the Devil Rays have 3 wins against the sox... all 3 against Matsuzaka
@Dave Ryan: I'll take Kazmir and Shields as well
What an absolutely ridiculous box score. 30 runs, all earned. And to think they had to drag themselves out on the field for another one 30 minutes later...
My favourite part? The fact that Wes Littleton picked up a save. He was asked to protect an 11 run lead for three innings, and goddamnit, he did it.
Good of the offense to provide some extra breathing room, though.
The Gashouse Gorillas deserve an asterisk- One of the players used an entire tree as a bat. And the ball must have been juiced or something, because it literally screamed its way out of the park.
@Spaceman Spiff:
As always, the Dugout has a great take on this!
@steelpanz: It's in the second paragraph of the post. In italics.
@Upstate Underdog: Of course, after pitching an entire inning, Joba has to go back into his hyperbaric chamber for three days.
@Lisa:
PS If Girl Detective is here, please do not link. It will start another useless thread.
the first time that scored flashed up, the first thing that popped into my head was "do they play NFL preseason games on Wednesdays?"
@Juice Box Hero:
+1 for your username, another +1 for the avatar.
Would any O's fans be interested in one Guillermo Mota? He's clean now, and boy does he suck.
@1 Speed Bike: James Shields is intriguing. I'd like to see him pitch on a good team.
@BigRicks: "Haters?" Who's writing the ol' morning constitutional today? Scoop Jackson?
@Lisa:
I think she's too busy chasing down the source of Jeter's herpes. She's gonna close this case no matter what racial epithets she's got to throw around.
@Cassifras: This is the most publicity/suffering since 1988? Haaave you met Jeffrey Maier?
@Lisa: I don't like that site and the way they have all the bizzaro players crapping doorknobs out of their ears, and using the ebonics. It seems racist to me....
@Lisa: Huh?
@Dave Ryan: the use of the word "crap" offends me.
@Dr. Michael Mancini: Actually I have... and yes, he's as big of a douche in person as you'd expect.
@BigRicks: There's a morning article other than Shanoff or MJD's?
@G Voll the Mole:
Per yesterday's thread on the "racist" site