Running up the score no intent to hit them) as this would insult the opposing team, violate the spirit of the game, and hurt their own batting average. Amateur, high school, and international baseball games often have a mercy rule so that games end sooner when the lead is deemed to be insurmountable (e.g. by 10 runs after 5 innings). However, since the home team always gets one final at-bat if they are trailing, the visiting team can in theory score unlimited runs in the top half of the inning. One of the unique rules of curling allows for the losing team to concede
Running up the score wide a margin of victory as possible. This method resulted in the world record for the number of goals scored in a single game, in the 2001 FIFA World Cup qualifier between Australia and American Samoa, in which the Australian team scored a record 31 goals. In 2002, a club team from Madagascar called SO l'Emyrne ran up the score on themselves while protesting what they believed to be unfair officiating during an end of season round-robin series. They kicked the ball into their own goal 149 times in a row during a game against local rival AS Adema. There