As I rode up the elevator in my new apartment this evening, the only other passenger noted my Baltimore Orioles cap.  The man - who was wearing a Boston Red Sox t-shirt - informed me that I was in the wrong neighborhood to be wearing such a hat.  I admitted that it hadn’t been easy being an Orioles fan anywhere for the last decade.

That point was emphasized when I got to my apartment.  Upon signing on to my computer, I saw that Baltimore had lost their game to the Texas Rangers.  That is not that surprising, even though the Rangers are in last place in their division.

What was surprising, however, was the score . . . Rangers 30, Orioles 3.  That’s not a baseball score; it’s a football score.

In case you are wondering, major league teams have only scored thirty runs nine times in the history of baseball.  The last time it was done was in 1897 when Chicago beat Louisville 36-7, a game in which Chicago set the record for most runs scored.  This is the first time that thirty runs have been scored in an American League game.  The AL didn’t come into existence as a major league until 1901.

Some days its hard to be a fan.

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