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Toronto Blue Jays Do Something That Hasn't Been Done in More than 120 Years in Baseball History!

The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays, 20-1, on Tuesday night, accomplishing something that hasn't been done since 1897.

Brady Farkas

Toronto Blue Jays Do Something That Hasn't Been Done in More than 120 Years in Baseball History!
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There's always two sides to history, and that was the case on Tuesday night in Tampa Bay.

With a 20-1 loss, the Tampa Bay Rays suffered their worst loss in franchise history. We chronicled that here.

With a 20-1 victory, the Toronto Blue Jays accomplished some history of their own, as @OptaSTATS discussed on Twitter:

The @BlueJays are the first MLB team to score 20+ runs on the road against a team with a .700+ winning percentage (min. 40 games into the season) since September 21, 1897, when the Brooklyn Bridegrooms won 22-5 against the 87-36 Boston Beaneaters.

As usual, it's a bit of niche stat, but we don't care, if it hasn't happened in more than 120 years, we're intrigued by it.

Offensively, Toronto got contributions from everywhere. Nine different Jays players had a multi-hit game, including George Springer, who had four hits. Springer, Vlad Guerrero Jr., Matt Chapman and Danny Jansen each homered in the win.

Jose Berrios got the win on the mound. He tossed seven innings and allowed just one run on five hits. He had five strikeouts. Adam Cimber returned from the injured list to close it out and tossed a scoreless inning.

Toronto scored six runs in the fifth inning and brought in nine in the ninth inning to account for most of the scoring.

The loss moved the Rays to 35-15 on the season while the win propelled the Jays to 26-23.

The two teams meet on Wednesday night at 6:35 p.m. ET at Tropicana Field.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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