The Phils won again tonight on a late-inning comeback, but I never got to see it. It was blacked out in my area. Well, it was available through some sort of pay channel in the 770's on Comcast, those bastards! Even MLB.TV Mosiac, which is well worth th money—usually—,let me down as well, another blackout. Alas.

Anyways, I watched a bit of the Yankees-White Sox game and overheard the oddly unappealing Paul O'Neill mention that the Sox had out-homered their opponents 25-5. Of course, the Yankees went on to hit three dingers in the game, including a Bobby Abreu game-winning grand slam, to Chicago's one. That's still an impressive 26-8 ratio.

I wondered what team out-homered their opponents by the largest margin. Of course, the "record" was in the nineteenth century when home runs were rare, men were men, and presidential candidates didn't appear on the WWE. The 1872 Boston Red Stockings had seven home runs and allowed none for an infinite ratio.

Here are the most dominate home run teams of all time:

You'll note that the '27 Yankees are the leaders since the dead-ball era. Even without Ruth's 60, the Yankees were crushing the opponents.

The last team to hit at least twice as many taters as their opponents was the 1946 Yankees, 136-66. In the last fifty years, the only team that came close was the 1988 Mets:

So the odds are that Chisox are just experiencing some early-season, small-sample-size aberrations. Besides a few more nights like tonight and a few more commentators like Paul O'Neill kibitzing on their feat will do the trick.