MEXICO CITY — The San Diego Padres baseball history dates back to 1969, when the club joined Major League Baseball as an expansion franchise, along with Kansas City, Montreal and the blink-and-you-missed-em’ Seattle Pilots.
No team in 46 seasons, however, scored more runs than the Padres on Sunday.
San Diego had to leave the country to set a franchise record for runs in a game, battering Houston 21-6 in the finale of the two-game Mexico City Series at Estadio Fray Nano.
Not Dave Winfield. Not Tony Gwynn. Not the 1998 World Series group of Caminiti, Joyner, Finley or Vaughn.