The Baltimore Orioles put up 16 runs on Tuesday afternoon in the first game of a doubleheader against the Toronto Blue Jays.
That’s hard enough to do, but the way the Orioles did it hasn’t been done in Major League Baseball in 70 years, and they tied an MLB record in the process.
The special recipe: At least four home runs, and at least four sacrifice flies.
According to OptaStats, the last time an offense did that in one game was on May 27, 1955, when the Boston Red Sox bashed the Washington Senators.
Enter the Orioles with the rare feat.
The simple stats are remarkable enough. Jordan Westburg had four hits. Ramon Laureano, Gunnar Henderson and Ramon Urias each had three.
Henderson and Tyler O’Neill each drove in four runs. Westburg and Laureano each scored four times.
Of those home runs, Urias hit a pair of them, and O’Neill and Henderson each had one.
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The Orioles were doubling, too, with Westburg and Cedric Mullins each delivering a pair and Colton Cowser adding one.
The Orioles tied the MLB record for sacrifice flies in one game, ending with five.
Mullins had two of the SFs, with O’Neill, Urias and Jackson Holliday each adding one.
That’s not the most exciting of records, but an MLB record is an MLB record.
It’ll be interesting to see if the Orioles saved any runs for game two of the doubleheader on Tuesday.
Even if they didn’t, though, they already made multiple kinds of history in the opener. The Blue Jays even had to turn to a backup catcher as a pitcher in the bottom of the eighth inning. Certainly not the best day for Toronto.
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