Wow what butt kicking, at what point do you just empty the bench and get everybody in the game. The Rangers made only 1 substituion, seems sort of unsportsmanlike.
This was the most runs scored in a game in 110 years and the most ever scored in an American League game. The most runs scored in a Major League game was 36 by the Chicago Colts (now the Cubs) against Louisville in the National League in 1897...
Well unless there is some rule that says you can't play the same players in the 2nd game, then putting the starters on the bench after they were up 14-3 would make sense. It would have rested them for the 2nd game.
I respectfully disagree. Stranger things than a comeback from a 14-3 deficit have happened. It was an unbelievable anomoly not likely to be repeated any time soon. If the runs were scored via poor Baltimore pitching, there's no sportsmanship issue. If the Rangers were stealing bases and hit & running late in the game, that's another story. I don't know the details of the game, but it seems to me that the Orioles have no one to be mad at other than themselves.
And... <t>The Rangers say thank you very much to Boston for Houston Klein HS outfielder David Murphy in the Gagne trade that rapped out six hits in the doubleheader. You guys should have seen his high school team which included the Indians Josh Barfield. That team was sick the way they hit the baseball.</t>
I'd read good things about Murphy, but the Sox have a couple other OFs they were more interested in keeping, Brandon Moss and Jacoby Ellsbury. The Rangers also got Kason Gabbard in the Gagne deal. Kason got the win in the Ranger romp.