Friend of the VORG Doug Kern alerted me to the following:
Just noticed the Yankee game had a 6-run inning, a 5-run inning, a 4-, a 3-, a 2-, and of course a 1-.
This feels like a @dianagram special. ?
— Doug Kern (@dakern74) May 24, 2018
To see if this “sequence” of runs scored in a half-inning has been surpassed in a game, I went to my file of Retrosheet game logs and looked for any games with at least 28 runs scored (sum of 1,2,3,4,5,6, and 7) and a inning-by-inning linescore available. There were 306 such games through 2017.
As far as I can tell, only ONE game has featured a longer run sequence than one through six …. and it occurred August 31, 1996:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Florida Marlins | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 0 |
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Cincinnati Reds | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | X | 22 | 18 | 4 |
| WP: Kevin Jarvis (7-7) • LP: Kurt Miller (1-2) | |||||||||||||