Now THAT is one odd pitching line

[Frayed Knot]

Colby Lewis gets the start for Texas in Baltimore yesterday (make-up game / first game of a DH) and promptly starts the game: HR, HR, HR [Ryan Flaherty, JJ Hardy, Nick Markakis] before the next batter Adam Jones hits a long fly to the wall which is caught.

- he then Ks the next two hitters to end the 1st inning

- he strikes out the side in the 2nd

- and strikes out the first guy in the 3rd (six in a row at this point) before a fly out and another K

- he goes on to strike out two more in the 4th, one in the 5th, and one in the 6th ... all of this without allowing a base-runner btw meaning that at this point he's retired 18 straight since the HR barrage including 11 of them by strikeout (O's lead 3-1)

- So now it's the 7th and what does he do? HR, BB, 2R-HR of course [Jones, Weiters, Betemit]. He then hits the next guy (hmmmmmm), gets a GiDP, allows a runner via a dropped pop-up but notches a K for the third out in what turns out to be his final batter of the game.

- the Texas reliever retires the O's in order in the 8th. The Rangers scratch a couple runs (one via HR) and lose 6-3

The final batting line for the O's: 6 runs on just 5 hits and a total of 8 base-runners [all five hits are HRs plus a walk, HBP, error] with 13 strike-outs and One LOB



* The HR-HR-HR start was an American League first although not a baseball first.
The 5 hits with all of them being HRs trick is apparently an MLB record.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Serves him right for being named "Colby."

Glad to see my O's take one game in that series, which was a matchup of 1st place teams that looked like a Texas walkover at first.

[Frayed Knot]

Well, when you can limit Hamilton to just six HRs over a four game series you've got a decent chance at winning at least one.