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These are the biggest wins in MLB history, including the Angels’ 25-1 victory over the Rockies

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(NEXSTAR) – There are many unexpected and wonderful events in a baseball game – a no-hitter, a hit for the cycle, a walk-off hit.

The latter was the June 24 game between the Colorado Rockies and the visiting Los Angeles Angels. The score was 2-0 against the Angels in the top of the third inning, but the game quickly turned upside down thanks to three consecutive home runs by Mike Trout, Brandon Drury and Matt Tice.

By the end of the third inning, the score was 13-0. The Angels outscored the Rockies 25-1 and held the lead the rest of the game.

Not only did the Angels set franchise records for runs, hits and margin of victory, but they also tied for the largest margin of victory in MLB history.

The Angels’ 25-1 margin of victory is the third largest since 1900, according to data tracked by MLB. The Angels were six runs shy of the game that currently holds the record: the Texas Rangers’ 30-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles in 2007.

In the M.L.B. The Orioles were up 3-0 at the start of the fourth inning. They didn’t score again though. The Rangers then scored five runs to make it 5-3 before scoring nine in the sixth, 10 in the eighth and six in the ninth.

In addition to being the largest margin in modern MLB history, the 30-run margin was the largest in professional baseball when the Chicago Colts routed the Louisville Colonels 36-7 in 1897.

Texas Rangers’ Ramon Vazquez, second from right, celebrates with teammates Frank Catalanotto, left, Jason Botts (19) and David Murphy (28) in the ninth inning of a baseball doubleheader. Baltimore Orioles, Wednesday, August 22, 2007, in Baltimore. This was Texas’ last score of the game. Vazquez hit two home runs and seven RBIs in Texas’ 30-3 win. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

Coming in behind the Rangers-Orioles game in the record books is the 1950 matchup between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Browns (later the Orioles). The Red Sox beat the Browns 29-4, a 25-run margin.

One of those home run hitters was Walt Dropo, who later helped the Chicago White Sox beat the Kansas City A’s 29-6 in 1955 as MLB’s first hitter.

Boston Red Sox sluggers Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr and Walt Droppo pose after the game. In a 29-4 win against the St. Louis Browns, the Sox broke multiple Diamond records, hitting seven home runs between them, two for Williams and three for Dropo and three for Doerr. (Getty)

Technically, the Angels’ streak against the Rockies is tied for the third-largest margin of victory in a game 100 years ago: Cleveland’s 1923, 27-3 victory over the Red Sox. According to MLB, Cleveland scored in every inning of that game, including a 13-run inning in the sixth (as the Angels saw).

Three games followed with 23-run margins of victory. Among them was the aforementioned White Sox victory over the A’s; 2022 game where the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Red Sox 28-5; And Cleveland beat the Browns 26-3 in 1948.

Only one of those record-setting teams, the 1948 Cleveland team, could win the World Series in every season.

MLB records A game in 1922 marks the all-time high-scoring game. That day, the Chicago Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies 26-23.

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