So apparently they added another game to the Royals-Yankees series. Of course, when I reported that the Yankees swept KC, it was still just a three-game series.

Anyway, to cover up for my screw-up, I have more fun facts from the world of high scoring. New York beat up on Tampa Bay so badly they registered one of the highest run totals by one team in a four-game series in the "modern era". There were only ten other four-game series since 1900 in which one team beat the Yanks 49 runs from the D-Rays series:

Oddly, just four of those twelve series were sweeps. Now, here is the all-time list. I can't resist a list that is led by a Players League team, Buffalo in this instance, and it is properly peppered Union Association representatives:

I would remise if I didn't point out that the Blue Jays beat the Twins 13-1 to tie them in the wild card standings at one game above .500. The score itself was not that remarkable, but the fact that Toronto scored 11 of those runs in the sixth inning. That made me wonder how often a team scored double-digit runs in one inning and then was kept virtually scoreless the rest of the game. It turns out that it is not that rare. Toronto becomes the 126th team to score ten or more runs in an inning but two or fewer runs over the rest of the game.

There have been 25 games in which a team has been shut out aside from a double-digit inning. The last was Phillies last year, who beat the Marlins 10-2 by scoring all of their runs in the ninth. They broke up a 2-0 shutout by Dontrelle Willis and denied him his 22nd win, which he finally picked up five days later. The first ten Phils batters in the ninth reached base. They were aided by four ninth-inning errors by Florida (their most ever in an inning) to go with their eight hits, all singles, and one walk. Four of the ninth inning runs were unearned. Todd Jones relieved Willis after a Luis Castillo error loaded the bases with none out. Jones had a streak of 28 chances without a blown save broken while recording no outs and allowing five runs, four earned, and four hits on just nine pitches and he threw away a Chase Utley bunt attempt for one of the four errors, allowing the go-ahead run.

The game is one of three in baseball history in which a shut-out team grabbed the lead in the ninth with a double-digit runs in the ninth. The other two were when the White Sox beat the Indians, 10-2, on August 15, 1962 after trailing 1-0 through eight innings and when the Reds lost to the Cubs, 11-10, on September 26, 1912.

The Reds trailed 9-0 after eight innings and then scored ten runs to pull ahead, 10-9, but eventually succumbed after two runs in the bottom of the ninth. The scoring came almost exclusively on walks. Starter Jimmy Lavender absorbed five runs before he was lifted in favor of Fred Toney. Toney, with the bases loaded, goes on to walk the only three batters he faced before being replaced by Larry Chaney, who walked two straight to give the Reds a 10-9 lead. The Reds catch the base on balls fever as Ralph Works walks a batter and then hits another to lead off the bottom of the ninth. Rube Benton then relieves him and walks three straight to give the Cubs an 11-10 win. The Cubs then shut the Reds out 10-0 in the second game of the double header that day.

Here are the other teams that scored ten or more runs in an inning and were shut out the rest of the game:

In other news, Tom Glavine won his 299th game. After his next win, baseball will have three active 300-game winners for the first time in twenty years and just the seventh time in baseball history. Roger Clemens (351) and Greg Maddux (340) are already there. Here are all the seasons with three or more active 300-game winners:

These are the pitchers for each of those seasons with their win total as of the end of the given season:

If all four stay active next season and Randy Johnson (284 wins) should some reach the milestone, that would give us four for the second time since 1892 (1986 being the other). This comes after baseball had no active 300-game winners from 1994 after Nolan Ryan retired until 2003 when Roger Clemens reached the milestone. At the time the prevailing theory was that 300-game winners were close to being extinct.

Finally, the Phils rode Ryan Howard's 28th home run, walkoff dinger, to a 7-5 win in fourteen innings. The eighth Phillies pitcher, Clay Condrey got the win, his fourth on the year without a loss. If the season ended today, Condrey would have the third highest ERA (6.29) for an unbeaten pitcher with at least four wins:

Pitcher	Yr	W	L	ERA
Omar Daal	1995	4	0	7.20
Bob Veale	1971	6	0	6.99
Jason Bere	1999	5	0	6.08
Johnny Klippstein	1959	4	0	5.91
Amaury Telemaco	1999	4	0	5.77
Pete Appleton	1940	4	0	5.62
Randy Wolf	2006	4	0	5.56
Curt Leskanic	1997	4	0	5.55
Ted Wilks	1947	4	0	5.01

But it's not the end of the season. Condrey projects to six wins for the year. If he ends up 6-0 with his current ERA, he would be just the second unbeaten pitcher in baseball history to win at least six games while recording a 6.00+ ERA. Here are the highest ERAs with at least five wins: