The Pride Rule

I was at work last night, huddled around the bar having a nice Rum and Coke to end my night, and I saw something on the Sportscenter Ticker that I thought for sure was a typo. It had to be, right?

TEX 30, BAL 3.

I looked to the left of the score and it said that it was an MLB game, nah, couldn't be. Baltimore is bad, but not that bad, in fact, haven't they been somewhat respectable this year? Maybe the Texans beat the Ravens 30-3. That's actually probably more unbelievable. I don't think Matt Schaub and Old-Man Green are capable of putting up those kinds of numbers against Ray Lewis and Co. In fact, I found out this morning on ESPN's First Take that the Ravens haven't allowed 30 runs since 2005.

Thirty runs? 30! Are you kidding me? It was the first game of a double header. They had fresh pitchers. Did they accidentally put the Maryland's little league teams' pitchers out there? I didn't see the actual game, maybe they dressed those little guys in big leaguer's jerseys, like Tom Hanks in Big. And then they all went out and played the piano afterward.

30 runs hasn't been done since 1900. Maybe there should be a 20-run rule. Or, maybe there should be a pride-rule, and if you ever get beat by 27 runs, allow 30 runs and 29 hits, the whole team should take the field after the team in their undies and the groundsman will turn the sprinklers on and they have to play duck-duck goose.

Getting beat by 27 runs is like getting beat by 80 in basketball, by 60 in football, and by, well, who cares about hockey.

The thing that really baffles me though, how did Littleton get a save? HE WAS UP BY 27! Can anyone explain that to me?