Look: Nationals-Cardinals Spring Training Score Is Absurd

Given how much of spring training was missed due to the MLB lockout, fans are paying more attention to it now than in years past. That allowed a ton of people to enjoy an incredible scoring frenzy between the Washington Nationals and St. Louis Cardinals.

The Nationals were the hosts at FITTEAM BallPark in Palm Beach today, but it was the visitors who brought the heat in the eighth inning. St. Louis stormed out to an 8-0 lead after just two innings and led 13-0 by the middle of the sixth.

Washington finally got on the board with four runs in the bottom of the sixth. But then things unraveled in the 8th.

The Cardinals scored a whopping 15 runs in the eighth inning and one more in the ninth. The final score of the game was 29-8 in favor of the Cardinals.

26 Cardinals hits led to 27 RBIs with home runs from Paul Goldschmidt, Paul DeJong and Yadier Molina. 14 different Cardinals combined to find home plate, with nine players finding it multiple times.

Games where one team scores at least 25 runs are incredibly rare. They’ve occurred just a few dozen times in the vast history of Major League Baseball going all the way back to the 19th century.

It seems unlikely that the Cardinals will be able to replicate such a feat in the regular season. But it would be historic if they could.

Will any team score 29 runs in 2022?

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