Slaughter Rule

The Texas Rangers beat the Baltimore Orioles 30 to 3 today. No one has scored that many runs in over one hundred years. 11o to be exact. Think about that. Someone seems to hit 500 home runs every couple years. Someone seems to hit 300 wins every handful of years (and don't let anyone tell you it won't happen again). A guy comes along who hits 700 home runs every few decades. But it takes more than a century for a team to score 30 runs in a single game.

In high school at South Stokes, I remember playing some pretty awful teams - we beat East Wilkes 30-2 one time, and that was a five inning game thanks to the slaughter rule. The poor Baltimore organization have to endure all nine innings of this one. What's worse, the two teams had to turn around and play the back end of a double header after finishing. There is no way Baltimore can have any bullpen left. Perhaps we'll see some position players coming in to throw knuckleballs to the Rangers. I would love to see it.