Once again, Big Al makes us all shake our heads in amazement.  He his 6th home run in 7 days, which made it 5 games in a row that he has hit one.  That seems pretty trivial though considering the record is 8 I think.  The big news is that he is that he is the first player every to hit 30+ home runs in his first 7 seasons.  Of course last year, he was the first to do it in his first 6 years.  I’m going to guess that somewhere around this time next year, we’ll be bringing this up again.

Watch him tonight.  We’ll see if he gets to 6 games in a row so he can make a bid at that record too.

Good Luck Al.

I was going to write something about the AMAZING 30-run game by the Texas Rangers, but while I was looking for interesting tidbits of information, I came accross a much better article than I could ever write.  Check it out here at http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=270822201.

Here are a few of those intereting tidbits:

The Baltimore Ravens haven’t even given up 30 points since 2005.

First team with 4 players with 4 or more RBIs since 79′

Second highest score ever (36 runs were scored pre-1900)

5 runs in 4th
9 runs in 6th
10 runs in 8th
6 runs in 9th

This was also a neat little comparison:
Redskins scored 72 points against the Giants in 66′
Pistons scored 186 points against the Nuggets in 83′
Canadiens scored 16 points against the Nordiques in 20′

–Edit
Ok, here’s another interesting breakdown of the top 100 “beatdowns” http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=schoenfield/070823

What a game!  3 for 6.  2 Doubles.  2 HomeRuns.  10 RBIs. 

Bot 1st: LA Angels
G. Anderson doubled to deep right, C. Figgins and O. Cabrera scored

Bot 2nd: LA Angels
G. Anderson doubled to deep right center, V. Guerrero scored

Bot 3rd: LA Angels
G. Anderson homered to deep right, C. Figgins and J. Mathis scored

Bot 6th: LA Angels
G. Anderson homered to deep right, V. Guerrero, O. Cabrera and H. Kendrick scored

Can’t help but remember the game where “Hard-Hittin’ Mark Whiten” went 4 for 5 with 4 HR and 12 RBIs.  He had a grand slam, 2 3-run shots and a 2 run shot.  Un-frickin’-real.  I also remember when Shawn Green went 6 for 6 with 4 HR and a double.  I’ve always hated that one though because I had him benched in my Fanatasy league because he was on such a cold streak!  ugh!