In the earliest days of professional baseball, high scoring games were very much commonplace. Today for one team to score even 20 runs is quite unusual. For a team to score 33 runs is very much unheard of. Yet on the evening of May 7, 1988 at Spurgeon Stadium in Colorado Springs, Colorado the nearly impossible happened. The home team Sky Sox, members of the Pacific Coast League, scored 33 runs in their game against the Phoenix Firebirds. Thirteen home runs were hit in the Sky Sox 33-12 win. Eight of the home runs were hit by the Sky Sox.
One would think that a few league records may have been set on this special night. However I am not aware that even one league record may have been set. I know of at least one game played in 1923 where the visitors scored 35 runs, with one player hitting five home runs by himself. The PCL has a league record book that rivals that of the two Major Leagues. I hope that you want to see more.
As for tomorrow we go back to the majors and look at a feat by "Catfish".
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