Unbelievable Baseball Turnarounds: The Greatest AL/NL Comebacks You Won’t Believe Happened!

T-1. 12 Runs: Detroit Tigers 16, Chicago White Sox 15 (June 18, 1911)

That the Tigers secured the second-most comeback wins (42) in 1911 is noteworthy, but it still barely explains the unlikeliness of a team overcoming a 13-1 deficit for a win. It helped that the first team to do so had Ty Cobb. The Tigers scored four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning and three in the sixth before the White Sox tried to right themselves with two in the seventh to lead 15-8.

The home team kept hitting, though, scoring five times in the eighth and three in the ninth. In the final at-bat, Cobb reached on an infield single, with an ill-advised throw to the first baseman getting away to allow Davy Jones and Donie Bush to score and knot the game at 15. Sam Crawford followed with a double over the center fielder to bring in Cobb from second. The Georgia Peach went 5 for 6 with five RBIs and three runs in the 28th game of his career-long 40-game hitting streak.

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