Everything’s bigger in Texas, they say. And even though the modern team record for runs scored in a game didn’t occur in the Lone Star State, the Rangers certainly brought the spirit of their home turf to Baltimore's Camden Yards on Aug. 22, 2007.

Because it was on that day that the runs kept coming, and coming in bunches.

Texas tallied 30 in all against Baltimore’s 3 in the first game of an eventual doubleheader sweep, a thrashing so profound that Marlon Byrd -- who hit one of the Rangers’ two grand slams in the opener, naturally -- could only describe the event as “something freaky.”

"We were just out there shaking our heads," Byrd said at the time.

Even harder to believe: Texas didn’t score any runs in the first three innings and actually trailed 3-0 before the floodgates opened. The Rangers scored five runs in the fourth, nine in the sixth, 10 in the eighth and six more in the ninth. As you can see here, the Orioles' win probability plummeted quickly.

The run tally was the most since the Chicago Colts defeated the Louisville Colonels, 36-7, way back on June 29, 1897, but Texas tops the list of all the teams to score 25 or more runs in a game since 1900, which is considered the modern era of baseball.

Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Ramón Vázquez, the bottom two hitters in Texas’ lineup, each homered twice and combined for 14 RBIs.

"It was unbelievable," Saltalamacchia said after the game. "That was ridiculous. I've never been in a game like that in my life. It was one of those things. We were just seeing the ball and hitting the ball. You can't help but laugh. It's nothing they did. It's not like they made a lot of errors. It was just ridiculous. Everybody is going to remember it."

Every Rangers player who started the game had at least two hits and scored at least one run. The team tallied 49 total bases -- a single-game club record -- which came on 21 singles, two doubles and six home runs.

It was an especially meaningful game for rookie Travis Metcalf, who had been called up earlier in the day and replaced Michael Young defensively in the seventh inning. Metcalf slugged his first career grand slam and just his second career home run off Orioles right-hander Rob Bell in the eighth.

"It was amazing in capital letters," Metcalf said.

In all, the Rangers went 18-for-25 (.720) with runners in scoring position, leaving a lot of crooked numbers in the pitching box score on the opposite side.

The Rangers completed the sweep in Game 2 with a 9-7 victory, and set an AL record for most runs in a doubleheader with 39. The old record was 36 set by the Detroit Tigers against the St. Louis Browns on Aug. 14, 1937.

"It was awesome," then-Rangers manager Ron Washington told MLB.com. "The whole offense just came to life. I've never seen anything like it.”

A few more facts from the game:

• The Rangers entered the doubleheader hitting .190 with just 10 runs scored in their previous five games.

• The Rangers’ Wes Littleton threw three scoreless innings in relief and actually qualified for his first save of the season by locking down ... a 27-run lead.

• For Baltimore, the hits and runs given up were the most in franchise history and it was also its worst defeat.