The longest verified life that a human has ever lived is 122 years and 164 days.
But if there is an unverified person alive today older than that, he or she has still never experienced a three-game series quite like the one that the Los Angeles Angels and Colorado Rockies completed on Sunday at Coors Field.
Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani each homered and went a combined 4-for-9 in Friday’s series opener and the Angels still lost 7-4. Los Angeles also lost the series rubber match on Sunday, falling 4-3. But despite losing the series, the Angels scored more runs than the Rockies.
Now, a team winning a pair of close games and losing one game decisively isn’t too rare. But the Halos’ victory on Saturday wasn’t simply a decisive win, or even a blowout. It was one of the most lopsided games in MLB history, with Los Angeles routing Colorado, 25-1. Adding the three games up, the Angels outscored the Rockies 32-12 — but still lost the series.
The last time such a series happened was 1897, when the United States had only 45 states and William McKinley was President.
the Rockies are the 2nd team all-time to win a series of any length with a run differential of -20 or worse, joining:
the Louisville Colonels in June 1897 vs the Chicago Colts — Louisville won 2 of 3 games despite being outscored 45-22 (-23)
h/t @EliasSports
— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) June 25, 2023
Amazingly, more than two years after it was originally sent, the famed Tungsten Arm O’Doyle tweet remains as relevant as ever.
every time I see an Angels highlight it's like "Mike Trout hit three homes runs and raised his average to .528 while Shohei Ohtani did something that hasn't been done since 'Tungsten Arm' O'Doyle of the 1921 Akron Groomsmen, as the Tigers defeated the Angels 8-3"
— ℳatt (@matttomic) May 18, 2021
And baseball fans couldn’t help but make similar observations.
Now that's a stat. (And the Angels somehow got Tungsten Arm O'Doyled again.) https://t.co/GO2qzFxHvK
— Andrew Bucholtz (@AndrewBucholtz) June 25, 2023
The angels lead every team in the history of the world when it comes to beating niche tragic records https://t.co/0XuI9gWFJd
— 🏴☠️Perry The Pirate🏴☠️ (@PerryBurner) June 25, 2023
Woah.
Very poetic it was against the Angels. I feel like they’re the only team I could envision being in the wrong end of this. Maybe the Mets as well. https://t.co/cuJHMDK6mi
— Rational Yankees Fan (@rational_yankee) June 25, 2023
It’s amazing how the Angels find so many interesting ways to be terrible, even with the two greatest players in the game today https://t.co/cSmwkcS0bJ
— Greg Hillis (@gregorykhillis) June 25, 2023
Tungsten Arm O’Doyle is alive and well.
