Craig's Blog of Destiny

Yup, here’s the headline from the Rangers Orioles game last night.  The most runs by a team scored in a game in 110 years!  That was the first game of a double header, and in the second game the Rangers scored 9 runs – and that – 39 runs by a team in a double header, is the most runs EVER.  A new record!

Yup, I WAS THERE!  After our meetings in Annapolis, Maryland, yesterday about 5 of us managers were thinking of an alternative to the usual bar hopping that the group would be doing that night.  One of the guys mentioned that the Orioles were in town and that it couldn’t be that far a drive up to Camden Yard.  So we got a car and driver from the hotel, piled in and headed up there.  We got there during the fourth inning of the first game, got tickets from the box office and went in.  Our seats were right, and I mean right, behind home plate, about 20 rows up.  Great seats!

When we arrived, the score was 5-3, Rangers.  Notice that through three innings, the Orioles were leading the game, 3-0.  But the Orioles were done.  The Rangers just kept scoring.  We saw two grand slam home runs, two three run homers and a bunch of other runs from all kinds of plays.  At one point, in the 8th inning, Jay, one of the guys I went with, pointed out that the Rangers had scored 25 runs and had been shut out in five of the eight innings played.  The Rangers went on to score five more runs in the ninth. I sent a text message to David, mentioning that the Rangers had scored 30 runs on 29 hits – he thought I had committed a typo!

The crowd, what few of us were there, actually got behind the Rangers (the visiting team!) and at one point even booed one of the Rangers because he struck out:  LOOKING!!  On this night, of all nights, BE SWINGING!  The crowd continued to cheer for more runs throughout the game, only starting to care which team scored them at the beginning of the second game (which the Rangers won 9-5).

Isn’t baseball magical?