This could make baseball a lot more watchable

With this new controversy about the humidors, the Red Sox have been looking for a better way to treat their balls.

I think they have found it:

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Sydney showed some pretty good form – in more ways than one.


Given the score, they may as well have left Sydney in to pitch the whole game (see below)

That’s the most runs the Sox have ever allowed in a game, and is only two shy of the all-time modern era record for most runs scored or allowed by one team in a game. One team has scored 30 runs, three teams have scored 29. It has been a sobering week for the Boston nine. The Red Sox have been outscored 55–8 in their last three games. That minus-47 run differential across three contests is the all-time worst in the modern era.

The Blue Jays had scored 27 runs in the first six innings last night and seemed a safe bet for the MLB record, but they scored only one more in the final three stanzas. Most disappointingly, they managed only one run in the ninth, in which the Sox moundsman was a back-up infielder. The Jays also fell two short of the record for the most hits in a 9-inning game (31, last matched by the 1992 Brewers).

One old-time team did get more than 31 hits in an extra-inning game, and that was quite a story. The 1932 Cleveland Indians got 33 hits in a game – and lost 18-17! Their pitchers could not contain the mighty Jimmy Foxx, who had six hits and a walk in that game, including a double, three homers and eight RBI. Foxx also singled and scored the winning run in the top of the 18th inning, so he had a pretty decent day.

Nobody could contain Foxx that year. He finished with 58 homers, 169 RBI and a .364 average. That year his number of total bases on hits and walks was an astounding 554, the third best total in MLB history and the highest ever achieved by a non-Yankee. (The best two totals were achieved by Babe Ruth in 1921 and Lou Gehrig in 1927. Foxx almost matched Gehrig’s 556, but the Babe left them both in the distance at 602.)

5 thoughts on “This could make baseball a lot more watchable

  1. Jesus, it’s top of the 6th, you’re down 25-3. How do you not just send a note to the ump – “Fuck it, those guys win, see you at the bar.”?

  2. The Sox centerfielder must have still been recovering from beholding the splendor of Sweeney on that Little League grand slam. I can’t remember ever seeing a centerfielder losing a ball that badly, not even Willie fucking Davis.

  3. I suppose they’ll never let her onto a baseball field ever again…the “Sweeney Curse.”

    1. Not just a baseball field. She will literally be “Banned in Boston” after this.

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