Brewers Make MLB History With 22-0 Rout of Mariners

The Milwaukee Brewers dismantled the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night in a 22-0 victory, tying the largest margin of victory in an MLB shutout in the modern era.

The Brewers' bats were incredibly hot, as they finished with 22 hits, scored in five different innings, and eventually turned what started as a competitive game into one of the most lopsided results baseball has seen in decades.

Brewers' Offense Completely Explodes

The most fascinating part was that, through four innings, the score was just 1-0. Milwaukee led the game, but Seattle was still within striking distance.

Then, in the fifth inning, the Brewers scored five runs. They added another five in the sixth, which pushed the lead to 11-0, and just kept going from there. By the end of the night, it was a 22-0 shutout that matched the modern-era record previously set by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1975 and Cleveland in 2004. It's the type of box score that just makes your jaw drop.

Brewers' Pitching Also Rises to the Occasion

Milwaukee didn't allow Seattle to get anything going offensively, either.

Kyle Harrison threw five scoreless innings with eight strikeouts before the bullpen finished off the shutout. The Mariners managed just five hits the entire game. It was the definition of a full team effort, top to bottom. The pitching staff had to be locked in. The bats had to be going offensively. The defense had to make plays. Everything had to come together at once.

What's most interesting is that Seattle isn't a slouch of a team, either. The Mariners are still very much alive in the playoff race and only a few games out of the top spot in their division, even if the AL West is weak. They're a legitimate postseason-caliber team, and yet they just lost by 22 runs.

Sometimes things simply snowball in one direction, and Tuesday night was the most extreme example of that. This particular blowout was certainly one of the rarest we've seen in modern MLB history.