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Never Allowed Ten

Posted by Raphy on June 1, 2010

While every team in baseball has now scored 10 runs at least once, there are still 2 teams that have not yet allowed 10 runs to score in a game. Surprisingly, itsĀ  19-31 Mariners who join theĀ  Phillies in having avoided this fate so far, although each team has allowed 9 runs on 2 separate occasions. To do this for an entire season would be a historic feat, as only 3 teams have accomplished this since 1901 and no team has done so with a 162 game schedule. Here are the 3 teams:

1. 1909 Chicago Cubs

 Runs Games Wins Loss  W-L%
+----+-----+----+----+-----+
    0    32   32    0 1.000
    1    28   25    3  .893
    2    22   18    4  .818
    3    25   16    9  .640
    4    21    7   12  .368
    5    12    2   10  .167
    6    10    3    7  .300
    7     2    1    1  .500
    8     2    0    2  .000
    9     1    0    1  .000
+----+-----+----+----+-----+

2. 1918 Washington Senators

 Runs Games Wins Loss  W-L%
+----+-----+----+----+-----+
    0    19   19    0 1.000
    1    21   14    6  .700
    2    20   16    3  .842
    3    19   10    9  .526
    4    17    8    9  .471
    5    11    2    9  .182
    6     5    2    3  .400
    7     6    1    5  .167
    8     9    0    9  .000
    9     3    0    3  .000
+----+-----+----+----+-----+

3. 1981 San Fransisco Giants

 Runs Games Wins Loss  W-L%
+----+-----+----+----+-----+
    0     9    9    0 1.000
    1    13   12    1  .923
    2    19   16    3  .842
    3    15    8    7  .533
    4    16    4   12  .250
    5    10    3    7  .300
    6     8    1    7  .125
    7    15    3   12  .200
    8     3    0    3  .000
    9     3    0    3  .000
+----+-----+----+----+-----+

3 Responses to “Never Allowed Ten”

  1. Gerry Says:

    It seems that no team has gone through a season since 1901 without scoring 10 runs at least once, but one team went through a season without winning a game in which they scored 10 runs. That would be the 1981 Astros, who lost, 15-12, the only game in which they scored 10 or more runs.

  2. Gerry Says:

    Oops. "Never scored ten" didn't show up in the Related Posts list for this post, and I must have misinterpreted the results of the search I did. Kindly ignore earlier comment.

  3. Kahuna Tuna Says:

    Three teams from the leagues' lowest-runs-per-game seasons allowed ten runs in only a single game: the 1908 Superbas (Brooklyn), the 1908 Naps (Cleveland), and the 1968 Dodgers.

    By contrast, the 1930 Phillies gave up ten or more runs in a game 45 times, winning four, and the 1899 Cleveland Spiders 50 times, winning none.