On May 5, 2000, the Rangers and Athletics turned a routine early-season game into an offensive marathon, combining for 32 runs and a dramatic finish. By the final out, every starter who took the field had played a role in a feat almost never seen before.
🕵️ Inside The Original Newspaper Coverage you’ll learn:
The last AL game like this came in 1950
Why neither team could credit batting practice for their run production
Box scores reveal this as only once of a handful of offensive shootouts that day
🕵️ Replay Today: June 11, 1981
Travel back 60 years ago to the day, and experience baseball as fans saw it that day with one original newspaper page featuring:
Dodger hurler retires 22 straight on way to 3-hit win
one of the games top thieves gets his 47th and 48th stolen bases of the season
tenth straight loss drops one AL team below .300
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