Somewhere Jayson Stark springs into action...

So as you may or may not have seen, the Texas Rangers pretty much made the Baltimore Orioles their bitches today. They absolutely pummeled the quartet of Daniel Cabrera, Brian Burres, Rob Bell and Paul Shuey for a grand total of THIRTY runs.

I was curious if that was a major league record. I went over to Baseball-Reference to use the play index, and it came up with no games since 1957 where a team scored more than 29 runs. What about earlier? Was Baseball Reference's Play Index cock-blocking me because it wanted me to pay for a subscription?

So I headed over to Wikipedia. It was the bottom of the ninth, but the Rangers were done (barring the rare 27 run inning). Even though the game had even finished, someone had ALREADY updated the entry to say that the Rangers set the modern day record for runs scored tonight.

Somewhere in the greater Philadelphia area the red phone is ringing in the Stark household. Tim Kurkjian is orgasmic on the other end of the line, and tomorrow's inevitable useless info column is being banged out on the computer...