Category Archives: scores

A Day for Shutout Routs

Posted on 8 April, 2013 by Diane

Sunday was a great day for 13-0 shutouts.  There were two of them.  The Red Sox routed R.A. Dickey and the Jays in Toronto, and the Indians roughed up David Price and the Rays in Tampa.  This elicited a Twitter … Continue reading →

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Pirates create a new linescore for the record books

Posted on 8 September, 2012 by Diane

In baseball history, there have been approximately 2,650 different game linescores (R-H-E) achieved, with about 900 of them only occurring once.  Last year, the Indians gave us the first ever 1-0-5 linescore, scoring a single run and throwing the ball … Continue reading →

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In Search of Nine Innings of Pi

Posted on 14 March, 2012 by Diane

As we’ve already mentioned today, its “Pi Day” and we want to track down anything in baseball that you could tie to pi. So, how about games in which the score by inning for either team matched the digits of … Continue reading →

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Real Life “Casey at the Bat” Endings

Posted on 20 December, 2011 by

While it may not be a literary work of art, there may be no more famous piece of baseball literature than “Casey at the Bat“.   Penned by Ernest Thayer in 1888, it has been the subject of numerous stage performances, … Continue reading →

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When “just one bad inning” is an understatement

Posted on 19 September, 2011 by

How many times have you listened to a post-game interview, and the manager or pitcher of the losing team states that it was just “one bad inning” that did them in? Now, to be sure, there are plenty of occasions … Continue reading →

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Are you ready for some football during the pennant races?

Posted on 11 September, 2011 by

With this being the opening weekend of the NFL, I thought we should find some football-type baseball scores.  So, after parsing out the Sunday games that feature multiples of 7s and 3s, here are the highest “football-like” scores in MLB … Continue reading →

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Nibbled to Death by Solo Homers

Posted on 12 August, 2011 by

CC Sabathia served up five solo homers tonight in what turned out to be a 5-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays. Plenty of pitchers have given up five homers in a start.  A few of those starts featured five … Continue reading →

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