The Milwaukee Brewers shattered both MLB and franchise records with a flawless performance against the Seattle Mariners.
It's hard to fathom a Major League Baseball game ending in the score 22-0, but that's exactly what happened when the Milwaukee Brewers played the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday, Aug. 18.
Milwaukee's offense came to life with a 22-hit game, something this team desperately needed.
Many questioned why the Brewers didn't add a bat at the trade deadline, but it's believed there wasn't one that was the right fit, and clearly they proved that against the Mariners.
While a ton of these hits and runs came against a position player in the eighth inning, the Brewers still managed to play a flawless game in terms of their batting, fielding, and even pitching, which includes backup catcher Gary Sanchez, who threw a scoreless ninth inning.
How the Brewers made MLB history
According to OptaSTATS, no team in MLB history has ever done all three of these in the same game: Score 20+ runs, toss a 10+ strikeout shutout, and play errorless baseball.
On top of that, this is a Brewers team that will go in the record books as one of three teams with the largest shutout victory since the start of 1888.
The Mariners were held without a run and had just five hits in the game, two of which were against Sanchez. In total, the Mariners committed four errors, including a costly one against Julio Rodriguez as he threw a ball into the bullpen while there were only two outs in the eighth inning, which allowed even more damage to be done.
Brewers tie franchise record for runs in a game
Officially, this Brewers team matched their 22-run performance from back on Aug. 28, 1992. It's been 34 years since Milwaukee scored this many runs in a game, and somehow, they managed to score six more runs than they had in a single game the rest of this season.
Dropping 16 on the San Francisco Giants was going to be tough to beat, but clearly, they made the most of their day off and pounced on the opportunity to embarrass these Mariners.
The craziest part of this game is the fact that it was only a 1-0 lead through four innings. Milwaukee scored five runs in both the fifth and sixth innings, then added two in the seventh, and an astonishing nine against infielder Leo Rivas, a 28-year-old who is stuck with a 63.00 ERA after making his fourth-ever pitching appearance.
