Major League Baseball had a night of offense to remember, not seen in 129 years, with 12 teams breaking out with double-digit runs.
Three games concluded with 11-10 on the same day for the first time.
Twelve teams tied May 30, 1884, for the second-most with double-digit runs in one day, trailing only 13 on July 4, 1894, according to Elias Sports Bureau research.
The Chicago Cubs topped the scoring Tuesday night by drubbing the Washington Nationals 17-3 and the Arizona Diamondbacks outlasted the Atlanta Braves in an instant classic, 16-13.
The San Francisco Giants beat the Cincinnati Reds, the New York Mets defeated the Chicago White Sox and the Kansas City Royals edged out the Detroit Tigers, all by an 11-10 final. Elias said that score had never occurred three times on the same day.
Four contests in which both teams scored double-digit runs knotted the record of July 4, 1894, and July 9, 1898, MLB said.
In more humdrum 10-3 routs, the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Baltimore Orioles and the Minnesota Twins defeated the Seattle Mariners.
The Cleveland Guardians blew out the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-1.
The San Diego Padres fell just short, stranding a runner in scoring position at second base in the ninth inning of a 9-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.
Every team in the AL Central put 10 or more runs on the board on Tuesday. That is just the second day in the divisional era, since 1969, that each team in a division has scored double-digit runs on the same day. The other instance was September 15, 2000, when the AL West did so.
There were a total of 15 games Tuesday, the continuation and completion of the suspended Giants-Reds game counts as Monday in the records.
There were 24 games on May 30, 1884, a year that there were three major leagues: the National League, the American Association, and the Union Association. Ned Williamson of the Chicago White Sox had the first three-homer game in big league history.
While there was just the 12-team NL on July 4, 1984, every team played a Fourth of July doubleheader.
