More than 22 Facts About the Indians 22-4 Win Over the Yankees

What better way to celebrate the 22-4 drubbing of the New York Yankees on April 18th, 2009? How about 14 random facts about the game? Significance of 14?

Well that would be the number of the runs the Indians scored in the second inning.

Hold on...I think they just scored again.

Did David Wells leave after Thursday's game? How about any of the other Yankee greats? I think the Bombers need some backup.

Crazy Eights

Eight is the number of both runs and hits that New York Yankee starter Chien-Ming Wang gave up.

Wang retired the side in order in the first inning but the went on to record just one more out, a Ryan Garko foul-out, in the second inning.

More fun with the Yankee's No. 2, Wang has averaged just two innings per start this year. His ERA is a bloated 34.50.

I have bought pairs of sneakers at a lower number than that.

Claggett Who?

I'm a big baseball fan, but I honestly never heard of Anthony Claggett before this performance.

I think it's also safe to say that this will be the last time I'll ever hear of him.

Claggett did just as badly as Wang did, giving up the same number of runs, but surrendering two walks and one more hit. 11 base-runners, eight runs, one demotion to Double-A.

Between Claggett and Wang, the Indians sent 17 men to the plate. Ryan Garko got to bat again with no outs being made, since he made the first one earlier in the inning.

5 RBI in an Inning

Asdrubal Cabrera had four hits in the game, but all of his runs batted in came in the 14-run second inning.

After hitting an RBI single earlier in the inning, Cabrera made it five RBI in the inning with his first career Grand Slam.

The five RBI in one inning is one shy of a franchise record, which was set by former third baseman Matt Williams.

Williams completed the feat 12 years ago in 1997, but he did in two at-bats as well. A three-run home run and a three-run double.

The Indians won that day after scoring 10 runs in the fourth inning. The final score was 10-4.

Cabrera also scored three times in the game against the Yankees.

Home Sweet Home

The last time the Yankees gave up 22 runs at home, and the only other time, was five years ago in 2004.

Their opponent?

The Cleveland Indians on Aug. 31.

Victor Martinez and Travis Hafner were also a part of that game, hitting fourth and fifth respectively.

Martinez's Line: 2-4, 3 R, 4 RBI, 3-Run HR, 2 BB
Hafner's Line: 2-6, 1 R, 3 RBI, 1 BB, 1 Triple

Jody Gerut and Coco Crisp both homered, while Omar Vizquel went 6-7 with four RBI.

The starter for the Yankees was Javier Vazquez, who only gave up six runs. Tanyon Sturtze gave up seven runs and Esteban Loaiza gave up six runs.

The only Yankees to be a part of both losses on the field, Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, and Hideki Matsui.

The Indians now hold the record for most runs scored by an opponent at both the old and new Yankee Stadiums.

Cleveland Rocks New York

The Yankees have only been beaten worse two other times.

The Cleveland Indians have been the ones doing the beating though.

The top five highest run totals the Yankees have allowed to a team in one game have all been courtesy of the Indians.

Cleveland scored 24 once against New York back in 1928. They let 23 touch home plate back in 2002 and, of course, the three instances in which the Tribe scored 22 runs, the third being in 1987.

Franchise Worst...and Best Inning

This was a franchise worst for the New York Yankees.

They've never given up 14 runs or 13 hits in a single inning.

It was also a franchise best for the Cleveland Indians.

The last time, and only other time, they scored 14 runs in an inning was in 1950 against the Philadelphia A's.

That came in the first inning.

Last Occurence

The last time someone scored 14 runs in one inning was back in 2003.

The Boston Red Sox clobbered the Florida Marlins for 14 runs in the first inning.

The starting pitcher for the Florida Marlins?

Carl Pavano, who starts for Cleveland on Sunday against A.J. Burnett, his former Florida teammate. He gave up six runs and didn't record an out.

Michael Tejera pitched after him and couldn't record an out either, giving up five runs.

Bill Mueller had six RBI and the Red Sox knocked in three more runs and three more hits than the Indians did against the Yankees.

Johnny Damon played for Boston at the time and went 5-7 in that game.

Virtual Box Score

Shin-Soo Choo started the scoring in the second inning with this three-run home run.

The Indians hit three home runs in that inning. They'd go on to hit six total.

Mark DeRosa had six RBI, coming off three hits, a single, double, and home run.

DeRosa had another hit and was one of two Indians to get seven official at-bats.

Travis Hafner was the other one and he was feet away from a grand slam in the eighth inning.

Indians hitters combined managed to leave 24 men on base.

Hafner is responsible for six, Francisco, the lone Indian starter without an RBI, also left six on. The team total was only 9.

Ben Francisco was one of five Indians to score at least three runs, joining Grady Sizemore, Asdrubal Cabera, Jhonny Peralta and Travis Hafner.

Grady Sizemore only played five innings, but he accumulated five plate appearances. Victor Martinez also only got five plate-appearances.

Grady Sizemore and Asdrubal Cabrera went back-to-back in the second inning, Victor Martinez and Mark DeRosa did it in the fifth.

Kelly Shoppach subbed for Martinez and was the lone Indian without a hit, he had two at-bats.

Just Retire Already

The Indians were retired in order just twice, the first inning and the seventh.

They failed to score in those two innings and the sixth inning.

The Indians sent 58 hitters to the plate. The Yankees 38.

Laughter is the best Medicine

Remember that 22 runs only win you one game.

But it certainly could lose you more than one if you let it get to you.

Come 1:05 PM ET on April 19, this should be a distant memory for both Cleveland and New York.

Until then...

Laugh it up.

22 Runs, 25 Runs, Endless Amount of Laughs.