I don't know what the stats are, but I'll say that based on the odds, it's pretty flukey. If you think about it, even giving up nine runs is unlikely. Since the start of the 162-game season, only the 1996 Tigers and 1999 Rockies have given up nine or more runs more than 40 times in a season. Only 32 teams in those 61 seasons (including 2…
I don't know what the stats are, but I'll say that based on the odds, it's pretty flukey. If you think about it, even giving up nine runs is unlikely. Since the start of the 162-game season, only the 1996 Tigers and 1999 Rockies have given up nine or more runs more than 40 times in a season. Only 32 teams in those 61 seasons (including 2023, excluding 2020) have given up nine or more runs 33 times, which is 20% of a 162-game season. That means 1,606 teams have given up nine or more runs less than 20% of the time. I don't want to get too deep into this, but the odds of giving up nine alone are pretty slim and to do it on a day when you score nine seem even slimmer. When something is that rare, it's generally mostly a fluke.
Hell, the Royals themselves were down 8-1 against the team with the best record in the AL earlier this year and ended up taking a lead.
Doesn't make it any less annoying and doesn't make announcer issues any less frustrating during the annoying game though!
Edit: Okay, got too curious. Since 1962 (and including 2020), there have been 3,507 games where both teams scored nine or more runs. That's out of 262,000+ games. So yeah, pretty rare. I know this isn't even remotely what you were hoping to get, but I go down rabbit holes. It's what I do.
I don't know what the stats are, but I'll say that based on the odds, it's pretty flukey. If you think about it, even giving up nine runs is unlikely. Since the start of the 162-game season, only the 1996 Tigers and 1999 Rockies have given up nine or more runs more than 40 times in a season. Only 32 teams in those 61 seasons (including 2023, excluding 2020) have given up nine or more runs 33 times, which is 20% of a 162-game season. That means 1,606 teams have given up nine or more runs less than 20% of the time. I don't want to get too deep into this, but the odds of giving up nine alone are pretty slim and to do it on a day when you score nine seem even slimmer. When something is that rare, it's generally mostly a fluke.
Hell, the Royals themselves were down 8-1 against the team with the best record in the AL earlier this year and ended up taking a lead.
Doesn't make it any less annoying and doesn't make announcer issues any less frustrating during the annoying game though!
Edit: Okay, got too curious. Since 1962 (and including 2020), there have been 3,507 games where both teams scored nine or more runs. That's out of 262,000+ games. So yeah, pretty rare. I know this isn't even remotely what you were hoping to get, but I go down rabbit holes. It's what I do.