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Hot start: Most 1st-inning runs since 2011
- Updated: August 4, 2016
Major League clubs were off to a hot start Wednesday, scoring first-inning runs at a rapid pace. In fact, the 38 runs plated in the first inning were the most the big leagues have seen since July 30, 2011, according to ESPN.
On that date just over five years ago, MLB teams totaled 39 runs in the first frame. However, unlike Wednesday’s 15-game schedule, that late-July slate in 2011 was aided by the addition of a 16th game, a doubleheader between the Orioles and Yankees. In the second game of that twin bill, the …
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