The St. Louis Cardinals crushed the Arizona Diamondbacks 16-7 on over the weekend, and did so using a monster ninth inning.
Goldschmidt opens and closes the scoring
Going into top of the ninth inning, the Cardinals led by one run, but exploded for eight runs to extend their lead going into the bottom of the ninth. It was Paul Goldschmidt who got the top half of the inning off on the right foot with a lead off single against Mark Melancon.
A single from Nolan Gorman drove Goldschmidt home to make it 9-7, and then Paul Dejong busted the game wide open with a grand slam to stretch the league to six runs. The Cardinals weren’t done just yet. After leading off the inning, Goldschmidt got one more at bat and jacked a three run homer off of Edwin Uceta to give the Cardinals a nine-run cushion going into the bottom of the ninth.
While the Cardinals eight-run inning was a jaw-dropping stat line, it is far from the highest scoring in baseball history. Back in 1883, the Chicago White Stockings beat the Detroit Wolverines in a game in which they scored 18 runs in an inning. In the modern MLB era, the record is 17 runs set by the Boston Red Sox in 1953 when they did it against the Detroit Tigers.
Saturday night’s game didn’t just make headlines for the Cardinals’ offensive explosion in the ninth inning. Albert Pujols hit two home runs, one in the top of the second and one in the top of the fourth, to bring his career total to 692. He nearly cranked a third in the top of the sixth, but his deep shot hit the bottom of the left field wall.
Here is a look at the top 11 single-inning performances in the Modern Era (since 1900), as provided by the Elias Sports Bureau. Note: Technically, the all-time Major League record
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Definition. A pitcher receives a win when he is the pitcher of record when his team takes the lead for good -- with a couple rare exceptions. First, a starting pitcher must pitch at least five innings (in a traditional game of nine innings or longer) to qualify for the win.
Back in 1883, the Chicago White Stockings beat the Detroit Wolverines in a game in which they scored 18 runs in an inning. In the modern MLB era, the record is 17 runs set by the Boston Red Sox in 1953 when they did it against the Detroit Tigers.
The three teams with the most runs are the Boston Red Sox with 17; the Texas Rangers with 16, and the Brooklyn Dodgers with 15. The Red Sox established the mark on June 18, 1953 by adding 17 runs to the scoreboard in the seventh inning against the Detroit Tigers.
The highest scoring Major League Baseball game in history, the 1922 Cubs-Phillies matchup, stands as a testament to the unpredictability and excitement that defines the sport. With the combined total of 49 runs, this epic showdown continues to capture the imagination of baseball enthusiasts worldwide.
The Arizona Diamondbacks began their pennant defense on Thursday with the biggest inning ever on Opening Day: a 14-run barrage in the third inning against the Colorado Rockies at Chase Field.
DENVER (KDVR) – There isn't a mercy rule in baseball, but some fans think there should be after the Colorado Rockies lost 16-1 in the team's season opener against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
In 1897, the Chicago Colts of the National League defeated the Louisville Colonels, 36–7. The modern record (i.e., post-1900) for margin of victory was set in 2007, when the Texas Rangers defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 30–3.
The longest MLB game in terms of time was in 1984 between the Chicago White Sox and the Milwaukee Brewers. The 25-inning game ran for a total of eight hours and six minutes and was completed over two days.
The Marlins finally ended the madness when a 20-year-old Miguel Cabrera (playing his seventh career game) threw Bill Mueller out at the plate. By that point, Johnny Damon had equaled Stephens' record with three hits in an inning.
How a schoolboy became the first cricketer to score 1,000 runs in an innings. leaving the page. This article is part of Yahoo's 'On This Day' series. It was a record that had stood for more than a century – and when 15-year-old schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade broke it, he produced cricket's first-ever four-figure innings.
Remember Harvey Haddix's 12-inning perfect-game loss
What Pirates starter Harvey Haddix did against the Milwaukee Braves on May 26, 1959, was as good a performance as any in the history of baseball -- an amazing 12 perfect innings, still the all-time record, while facing one of the most dangerous lineups in baseball.
Full disclosure: I'm the one who texts Mattingly to let him know that what I believe is the most unbreakable home run record of them all still stands. Dale Long homered in eight consecutive games to set the mark in 1956. Mattingly tied the record in '87, and Ken Griffey Jr. tied it again in '93.
Of course, technically the MLB record belongs to the Chicago Colts (now the Chicago Cubs). Chicago scored in every inning of the game and got six hits and a home run out of shortstop Barry McCormick.
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