{"id":45,"date":"2007-08-22T21:37:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T03:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/2007\/08\/22\/texas-rangers-break-records-in-meaningless-game\/"},"modified":"2007-08-22T21:37:47","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T03:37:47","slug":"texas-rangers-break-records-in-meaningless-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/22\/texas-rangers-break-records-in-meaningless-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers break records in meaningless game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Texas Rangers Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/rangers-logo.gif\" style=\"padding-right: 5px;\" align=\"left\" \/>With 37 games left in the regular season and trailing the division leaders by only 19 the Rangers decided to play baseball Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Someone must have told them this was a homerun derby exhibition because when the dust settled the score was Texas 30, Baltimore 3. Yes 30 runs.<\/p>\n<p>The record books say no team has scored 30 runs in a game in 110 years.<\/p>\n<p>Way to go Rangers. Pull out all the stops in a meaningless game against another team that has no hope of the playoffs this year. While you&#8217;re up north on a rampage I hear there are a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littleleague.org\/worldseries.html\">couple of other teams<\/a> playing that you could go flex your scoring prowess against.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 37 games left in the regular season and trailing the division leaders by only 19 the Rangers decided to play baseball Wednesday. Someone must have told them this was a homerun derby exhibition because when the dust settled the score was Texas 30, Baltimore 3. Yes 30 runs. The record books say no team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"url":"","client":"","location":"","start_date":"","end_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}