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Features This Day In Baseball: 22 August 2005
New York is waiting for you and me, baby
Waiting to swallow us down
New York, we're coming to see what you're made of
Are you as great as you sound?

It's not often a team finds itself down by 15 runs....

Does it happen a lot? How often do teams lose by more than 10 runs? Who does it most often? Is 15 runs, indeed, the largest deficit anyone has faced in a game this year?

Let's find out...

Baltimore (1-1)
lost 3-13 to Detroit on April 18
lost 0-12 to Toronto on August 12

Boston (3-2)
beat Tampa Bay 10-0 on April 25
beat NY Yankees 17-1 on May 28
lost 2-15 to Toronto on July 1
beat NY Yankees 17-1 on July 15
lost 0-12 to Minnesota on August 5

NY Yankees (2-2)
beat Tampa Bay 19-8 on April 18
beat Texas 11-1 on April 24
lost 1-17 to Boston on May 28
lost 1-17 to Boston on July 15

Tampa Bay (0-3)
lost 0-10 to Boston on April 15
lost 8-19 to NY Yankees on April 18
lost 2-18 to Pittsburgh on June 11

Toronto (2-1)
beat Boston 15-2 on July 1
beat Baltimore 12-0 on August 12
lost 6-17 to Detroit on August 21

Chicago White Sox (2-0)
beat Colorado 15-5 on June 8
beat Chicago Cubs 12-2 on June 24

Cleveland (0-1)
lost 1-11 to Detroit on April 9

Detroit(3-0)
beat Cleveland 11-1 on April 9
beat Baltimore 13-3 on April 18
beat Toronto 17-6 on August 21

Kansas City (0-3)
lost 1-14 to LA Angels on May 28
lost 1-16 to Oakland on August 6
lost 0-11 to Oakland on August 7

Minnesota (2-0)
beat Arizona 10-0 on June 8
beat Boston 12-0 on August 5

LA Angels (4-1)
beat Kansas City 14-1 on May 28
beat NY Mets 12-2 on June 10
beat Washington 11-1 on June 13
beat Texas 13-3 on June 27
lost 5-18 to Texas on June 30

Oakland (3-0)
beat San Francisco 16-0 on June 26
beat Kansas City 16-1 on August 6
beat Kansas City 11-0 on August 7

Seattle (0-0)
no ten run margins

Texas (2-3)
lost 1-11 to NY Yankees on April 24
beat Houston 18-3 on May 21
lost 3-13 to LA Angels on June 27
beat LA Angels 18-5 on June 30
lost 5-16 to Boston on August 10

Atlanta (3-0)
beat Philadelphia 11-1 on April 23
beat Houston 16-0 on May 8
beat Cincinnati 12-2 on August 5

Florida (2-1)
lost 0-14 to Chicago Cubs on June 14
beat Chicago Cubs 15-5 on June 15
beat San Francisco 16-4 on July 23

NY Mets (3-1)
beat Philadelphia 16-4 on April 19
beat San Francisco 12-1 on June 5
lost 2-12 to LA Angels on June 10
beat San Diego 12-0 on July 21

Philadelphia (2-2)
lost 4-16 to NY Mets on April 19
lost 1-11 to Atlanta on April 23
beat Cincinnati 12-2 on May 13
beat Pittsburgh 12-1 on July 4

Washington (0-2)
lost 1-11 to LA Angels on June 13
lost 1-14 to Houston on July 22

Chicago Cubs (3-2)
beat Arizona 16-6 on April 4
beat Florida 14-0 on June 14
lost 5-15 to Florida on June 15
lost 2-12 to Chicago White Sox on June 24
beat Pittsburgh 11-1 on July 15

Cincinnati (1-3)
lost 3-13 to Milwaukee on May 1
lost 2-12 to Philadelphia on May 13
lost 2-12 to Atlanta on August 5
beat Arizona 17-3 on August 19

Houston (2-2)
lost 0-16 to Atlanta on May 8
lost 3-18 to Texas on May 21
beat Pittsburgh 11-1 on July 8
beat Washington 14-1 on July 22

Milwaukee (2-0)
beat Cincinnati 13-3 on May 1
beat Colorado 11-1 on May 25

Pittsburgh (2-4)
lost 1-11 to St.Louis on April 18
beat Arizona 16-2 on May 5
beat Tampa Bay 18-2 on June 11
lost 1-12 to Philadelphia on July 4
lost 1-11 to Chicago Cubs on July 15
lost 1-11 to Houston on July 18

St.Louis (2-0)
beat Pittsburgh 11-1 on April 18
beat San Diego 15-5 on May 8

Arizona (0-6)
lost 6-16 to Chicago Cubs on April 4
lost 2-16 to Pittsburgh on May 5
lost 3-18 to Colorado on May 13
lost 0-10 to San Diego on May 26
lost 0-10 to Minnesota on June 8
lost 3-17 to Cincinnati on August 19

Colorado (1-3)
beat Arizona 18-3 on May 13
lost 1-11 to Milwaukee on May 25
lost 5-15 to Chicago White Sox on June 8
lost 2-12 to San Diego on July 8

LA Dodgers (0-0)
No ten run final margins.

San Diego (2-2)
lost 5-15 to St.Louis on May 8
beat Arizona 10-0 on May 26
beat Colorado 12-2 on July 8
lost 0-12 to NY Mets on July 21

San Francisco (0-3)
lost 1-12 to NY Mets on June 5
lost 0-16 to Oakland on June 26
lost 4-16 to Florida on July 23

The largest margins in any game have been 16 runs, which happened to be the final margins in Boston's two 17-1 maulings of the Yankees, and Pittsburgh's (!) 18-2 thrashing of Tampa Bay; 16-0 was the final score of Oakland's win over the Giants, and Atlanta's win over Houston.

Texas, Detroit, and the Marlins all had 15 run leads in victories over the Angels, Blue Jays, and Cubs, respectively, but the final margin was not quite so horrible.

If you're wondering where the famous Yankee-Tampa game is, where Piniella left Travis Harper in to take the beating of a lifetime... the Yanks only won that game by nine runs (20-11). It is the season's highest scoring game, in just about every way imaginable.

It's a light schedule today:

AL
Toronto (Downs 1-2, 4.89) at New York (Wright 3-2, 7.62)
Cleveland (Millwood 6-10, 3.11) at Tampa Bay (Waechter 4-8, 4.98)

NL
Los Angeles (Jackson 0-0, 0.00) at Florida (Willis 16-8, 2.64)
St.Louis (Mulder 14-6, 3.87) at Pittsburgh (Fogg 6-8, 5.07)
Atlanta (Hudson 9-7, 3.45) at Chicago (Zambrano 10-5, 3.07)
New York (Glavine 9-10, 4.26) at Arizona (Webb 10-9, 3.89)
Houston (Oswalt 14-10, 2.67) at San Diego (Williams 6-9, 5.17)
Philadelphia (Lieber 12-10, 4.85) at San Francisco (Lowry 9-11, 4.03)

Posted by Magpie on Monday, August 22 2005 @ 12:05 PM EDT.
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John Northey - Monday, August 22 2005 @ 01:37 PM EDT (#126276) #
Interesting. Didn't notice that Millwood has been so unlucky this year. 3.11 ERA and just 6-10 with a playoff contending team? Ouch. 4 loses with 2 or fewer earned runs allowed. For comparison, David Bush also has 4 loses in that situation plus 3 no decisions (one of those loses was his last start when he was pulled after allowing 4 runs, 2 earned, over 3 2/3 IP).

Poor Bush. Lilly, with an ERA of 5.52 vs Bush's 4.73 is 8-9 vs Bush at 2-7. Lets hope he gets some luck at the end of the year or in 2006.
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Jonny German - Monday, August 22 2005 @ 02:04 PM EDT (#126280) #
Arizona's actual winning percentage: .464
Arizona's Pythagorean winning percentage neglecting their six 10-run defeats: .465

Odd.

Details: Including those 10-run games, Arizona has scored 553 runs and allowed 671, for a Pytagorean winning percentage of .413, on pace for 67 wins over a full season. Ignoring those 6 games, they've scored 541 runs and allowed 584, which translates to .465 and 75 wins.
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Mick Doherty - Monday, August 22 2005 @ 02:31 PM EDT (#126288) #
This is not meant as a trivia question, since I haven't a clue what the answer is, but I guess it IS trivia, in the strictest sense. What's the largest lead ever overcome in a major league game? (Another way to look at that is "at what point does a team just give up?)
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John Northey - Monday, August 22 2005 @ 04:33 PM EDT (#126299) #
Good question on biggest comeback. I know the Jays have overcome 10 run deficits before (vs the Red Sox in 1989 - down 10-0 after 6, won in the 12th - http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B06040BOS1989.htm). I've heard of 11 run comebacks and at least one 9th innning 10 run comeback. I can't seem to find anything telling me the record though for biggest.
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smcs - Monday, August 22 2005 @ 04:36 PM EDT (#126300) #
In 2001, the Indians were down 14-2 to the Mariners, they came back to win 15-14 in 11 innings to match the biggest comeback ever. The Detroit Tigers came back from 13-1 to win 16-15 in 1911.

In 1994, the Houston Astros came back from an 11 run deficit to beat the Cardinals to match the largest comeback in National League history
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