On May 11, 1962, the 5-18 Washington Senators opened a three-game series against 
the Orioles at Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium. Rookie Dave Stenhouse, who had posted his first major league win just five days earlier, had shut out the Orioles through five innings. Orioles left-hander Art Quirk had allowed only three hits and an unearned run through five innings, but trailed the lowly Senators by a score of 1-0 as the game entered the top of the sixth inning.
Harry Bright led off the sixth with a topper in front of the plate that he beat out for a hit. Quirk walked Gene Woodling, but retired the next two batters. What happened next defied all odds.
Second baseman Chuck Cottier doubled home Bright and Woodling stopped at third. Stenhouse helped his own cause with a two-run single to right field that scored Woodling and Cottier. When Baltimore right-fielder Whitey Herzog misplayed Stenhouse’s hit, the ball rolled to the right field wall. Stenhouse reached third on the error. Wes Stock relieved Quirk and was greeted by an RBI-single to right field by Jim Piersall that increased Washington’s lead to 5-0. Stock walked Chuck Hinton, and John Schaive singled home Piersall with the fifth run of the inning. Batting for the second time in the inning, Bright walked to load the bases. Woodling brought everyone home with a grand slam home run into the right field bleachers. The score was now, 10-0, but the Senators weren’t quite finished.
Bob Johnson singled and Stock was replaced by right-handed veteran Hal “Skinny” Brown. Washington catcher Bob Schmidt singled to center. Both Schmidt and Johnson scored on Cottier’s second two-base hit of the inning. Cottier took third when Jerry Adair muffed the throw from the outfield. The inning finally came to a close when Stenhouse popped out to first baseman Jim Gentile. The final totals: 11 runs, 9 hits, two Baltimore errors and a runner left on third.
The eleven runs set an expansion Senators record for runs scored in an inning, and they went on to beat the Orioles, 12-1. Stenhouse went the distance and improved his record to 2-0.
