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Rangers hit 30 for highest score in 110 years
Thu Aug 23, 6:00 AM



NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Texas Rangers smashed the American League record for runs in one game with the biggest offensive outburst in the Major Leagues for 110 years when they routed the Orioles 30-3 in Baltimore on Wednesday.

Marlon Byrd and Travis Metcalf both hit grand slams and Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Ramon Vazquez hit two home runs each in the game, the first of a doubleheader at Camden Yards.


The Rangers then won the nightcap 9-7, and set a new American League record for most runs in a doubleheader with 39, beating the mark of 36 set by the Detroit Tigers against the St Louis Browns in 1937.


The record for runs scored in a single game is held by the Chicago Colts (now the Cubs), who beat the Louisville Colonels 36-7 in the National League in 1897 - no Major League team had scored 30 runs in a game since then until the Rangers ran riot.


"It was awesome," Texas manager Ron Washington told mlb.com. "The whole offense just came to life.


HISTORIC GAME


"I've never seen anything like it. I was hoping we would open up
offensively but I wasn't expecting anything like that."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/usreport_baseball_rangers_dc

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I don't count records before WWI.