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Hello, could you please let me know what is the biggest hits differential where a losing team had more hits than the winner.

Ex. Yankees beat Phillies 5-0 but Phillies had 20 hits, Yankees 5

Thank you for your help

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Daniel,

Interesting question. The largest gap I could find since 1954 between a loser with more hits than winners in a game is 10. There may have been another instance earlier, but my data is only good for 1954-present. There were five instances of this happening during that time:

Baltimore 5 runs, 16 hits - Oakland 8 runs, 6 hits  April 28, 1979
Montreal 4 runs, 6 hits - Atlanta 3 runs, 16 hits  April 26, 1980
Montreal 7 runs, 17 hits - San Francisco, 8 runs, 7 hits  May 12, 1984
Los Angeles (A) 9 runs, 19 hits - Baltimore, 11 runs, 9 hits  July 15, 1989
Detroit 3 runs, 16 hits - Kansas City 6 runs, 6 hits   August 28, 2007

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