Toronto Blue Jays' double-A affiliate scores 8 runs without a hit in bizarre rally
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The Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats delivered one of the strangest innings in baseball history Tuesday night, scoring eight runs without recording a single hit.
The Toronto Blue Jays’ Double-A affiliate pulled off a feat never seen at the Major League level during the expansion era. Ironically, their opponent, the Portland Sea Dogs — a Boston Red Sox affiliate — found themselves on the wrong side of history as well.
Trailing 2–0, New Hampshire erupted in the second inning while playing in Portland, Maine.
The team scored its first eight runs of the inning without a hit, eventually finishing the frame with 10 total runs.
Even more remarkably, nine of those runs came with two outs, and the inning included just one hit overall, with no defensive errors contributing.
🤯 8 runs on 0 hits???
🤯 10 runs on 1 hit???
What a wild inning for the FisherCats! And the Blue Jays prospects scored 9 of those runs with 2 outs 😲
🤯 10 runs on 1 hit???
What a wild inning for the FisherCats! And the Blue Jays prospects scored 9 of those runs with 2 outs 😲
So how did it happen?
The Fisher Cats capitalized on a chaotic combination of eight walks, four wild pitches, two hit batters, and a sacrifice fly.
Their only hit of the inning came from 27-year-old Ismael Munguia, who delivered a two-run single.
"I don't ever remember seeing that, here or any other game I've ever seen," Sea Dogs president Geoff Iacuessa told WGME Ch. 13 in Portland. "It was crazy. I thought maybe something was going on with the scoreboard and then I checked the game changer and it was correct."
Hayden Mullins drew five walks in the inning, while Jorge Juan added three more, highlighting just how erratic Portland’s pitching became.
Despite the bizarre sequence, New Hampshire held on to win the game 12–7 in chilly conditions.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, no Major League team has ever scored more than four runs in an inning before recording its first hit.
Additionally, MLB.com reports that there have only been 16 instances in American or National League history where a pitcher allowed five runs without giving up a hit in 1⅔ innings or fewer, making it even more astonishing that Portland pitchers managed to do it twice in the same inning.
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