What are the highest scoring MLB games in history? Revisiting baseball's biggest offensive battles after Korea and Canada's historic outings in WBC

What are the highest-scoring MLB games in history? Team Canada and Team Korea put on offensive explosions that could rival some of MLB's best ever. The Canadian team dominated Great Britain to the tune of a 18-8 run rule win while Korea scored an absurd 22 runs to China's two.

These were among the most impressive offensive explosions in recent memory. It's not often that a team wins by mercy rule when giving up eight runs, but that's what Canada did.

With two impressive offensive outpourings, where do they rank among the highest-scoring MLB games in history?

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What are the highest-scoring MLB games in history?

Though Canada and Korea put on stunning WBC onslaughts that will surely give their opponents nightmares, it's not among baseball's highest-scoring games.

The Cubs were part of history with the highest scoring MLB game

Long before hitters were this good and long before pitchers were as dominant, the year was 1922 and it holds the highest scoring MLB game in history.

The Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs made history that day that has not been repeated. The Cubs won 26-23 for one of the most unbelievable wins in MLB history.

The Cubs had a 25-6 lead and then led 26-9. However, the Phillies made a stunning comeback in the latter innings. They scored 14 runs in the eighth and ninth to nearly pull off an improbable comeback. They would have to settle to set records instead of a win.

In 1979, the two teams met again. They decided to try and outdo themselves for old times' sake. The Phillies won this time around, though. The final score was 23-22, so they didn't quite break the record.

Only once has a team ever broken 30 runs themselves and that was the Texas Rangers in 2007.