Did you hear about the team that threw eight hitless innings — and still gave up 13 runs? … Did you see that dude who scored a run without ever touching home plate? … And if you’re willing to believe that a relief pitcher can inherit four runners even though the infield only holds three bases, you’re thinking way more logically than the actual box scores.Does all that seem weird enough to you — and also wild enough? If it does, you should again be grateful there’s such a thing as the Weird and Wild column. So let’s review another upside-down week, starting with the …Lucky 13 of the weekIt was 5:25 Weird and Wild Daylight Time on Sunday when my phone began to shake. I knew what that meant. It was no longer just another leisurely Sunday afternoon in my world. It was time for the Weird and Wild oddities team to spring into action.“Can’t wait to see what you come up with on this Yankees 3rd inning,” my friend (and fellow wacky-nugget hunter) Reuben Frank, from NBC Sports Philadelphia, texted me.Neither of us was anywhere near West Sacramento at that moment. But it was suddenly the only baseball-playing metropolis on Earth that we cared about. Possibly because the Yankees’ line score that day was on the road to looking like this:0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0It isn’t every day that a team puts up a lucky 13-spot in one inning … and then drops eight zeroes in the other innings. So did we have an official Weird and Wild kind of game/inning on our hands? Did we ever. So let’s investigate!The Yankees just scored 13 runs in one inning? That. Happened. Then again, it’s not as if it’s never happened.Heck, the last time the Yankees scored more runs in an inning than that, Babe Ruth was batting cleanup. That was as recently as 106 years ago, on July 6, 1920, when they put up 14 in the fifth against Braggo Roth’s 1920 Washington Nationals. But that isn’t even close to the Weird and Wild part of this game. So let’s keep rolling.Did it once seem possible they might never make an out? It did. The Yankees actually scored 10 of those runs before they remembered to make an out in that inning. They also had 12 straight hitters reach base before they made an out. Seriously?How many teams in the expansion era (since 1961) have had more hitters than that reach base to start any of the 98 gazillion innings played over the last 66 seasons? That would be zero, of course. And only Dustin Pedroia’s 2009 Red Sox and Steve Balboni’s 1986 Royals even made it to 12 in a row. Thanks to the Elias Sports Bureau for that knowledge.But don’t touch that device of yours. This is only going to get weirder (and wilder).It took 43 minutes for any Yankee to put a ball in play that wasn’t a hit? I am not making this up. Until the 75th and final pitch of that inning, the Yankees were somehow batting 1.000 when they put a ball in play. There were a couple of strikeouts in there, but they went 11 for their first 11 when the ball left the batter’s box.So how weird (and wild) is that? According to Sportradar, there have been just eight other innings in the last 50 years where a team went 11 for its first 11 (or better) on balls in play. The record is 13-for-13, set by Troy Tulowitzki’s 2010 Rockies, in a madcap July 30 game at (where else?) pitcher-not-friendly Coors Field.But would you believe we still haven’t even gotten to the Weirdest and Wildest part? That’s right. Onward!The A’s threw eight hitless innings that day — and still gave up 13 runs? All right. This is where this game finally goes off the Weird and Wild rails.• Yankees hitters in that third inning: 13 runs, 11 hits, 18 dudes got to hit• Yankees hitters in all the other innings: zero runs, zero hits and A’s pitchers faced the minimum 24 hittersYes. Really. Much like my Athletic colleague — the way-too-curious author of the awesome Windup newsletter, Levi Weaver — we had a pretty standard research blitz going on until it came time to figure out how weird (and wild) something like that was.A team throws eight hitless innings … and gives up 13 runs? That makes my head hurt. Possibly because that has never, ever happened in any other nine-inning game in history.I took the extensive research done by other folks — the Elias Sports Bureau, MLB.com research legend Sarah Langs and Levi himself — and then started checking box scores to make sure I had this right. Here we go.Complete list of all games in history in which a team pitched eight hitless innings and still gave up 13 runs: A’s vs. Yankees on May 31End of list.However …It turned out that there was one other nine-inning game in history in which a team threw eight shutout (just not hitless) innings but still gave up 13 runs. And I remembered it well — because a Phillies team I spent a lot of time around went to Cincinnati on April 13, 2003, and put up this line:0 0 0 13 0 0 000Got it? That’s a 13-run fourth inning, sandwiched around eight zeroes. So I track down the pitcher who started that game for the Reds — friend of this column Ryan Dempster. He immediately called up the box score on his phone.“Dude, I’m looking at this box score and I’m dying laughing,” he said. “This is so funny.”Unlike those A’s, Dempster got the first two outs of that fourth inning without major damage. Then, well, stuff happened. Three walks, an intentional walk, a couple of hits. Next thing he knew, he’d been left in to face 11 hitters in that inning — and it was still rolling.WEIRD AND WILD: “Can you describe what it’s like to be the pitcher when an inning like that is going on?”DEMPSTER: “The hamster wheel is moving very fast.”We don’t need to run through all the details of that game. But suffice it to say that when other people started looking at that 13-run Yankees inning, plus all the zeroes around it, and using words like “impossible,” that was not a word that you’d find rolling off Dempster’s tongue.W&W: “So when that happened to you, when it happened to your team, did you think, ‘Well, we’ll never see a game like that again?’”DEMPSTER: “I remember Don Gullett, who was my pitching coach at the time, literally chalked it up to something like that. He said: `Don’t worry. That’s not going to happen again.’”Ha. So guess what did in fact just happen again? Baseball. What else?W&W: “You know, baseball will happen — except sometimes it happens to you.”DEMPSTER: “Yeah, it does. That should be a T-shirt.”I would buy that shirt. He would buy that shirt. This column should actually market that shirt. Because it totally sums up the beauty of …Baseball!Special bonus note on that gameA’s starter J.T. Ginn took a no-hitter into the ninth against the Angels on May 18 — and lost. (Katelyn Mulcahy / Getty Images)Hold on! This just in from loyal reader and Hall of Fame baseball scribe, John Lowe:Yes, that A’s loss Sunday was one of a kind, all right. Except for one thing. If you look at this astutely enough, you might remember that for the A’s, it was actually two of a kind.Don’t scoff. These A’s have now played two games, just in the last couple of weeks, in which they threw eight hitless innings in a nine-inning game but still lost. Seems hard, right? But not for them:There was Sunday — You’re all up to speed on that game.And there was May 18 — That was the day that A’s starter J.T. Ginn took a no-hitter and a 1-0 lead into the ninth. Whereupon, in a span of just three pitches, the no-hitter disappeared (on an Adam Frazier single) … and then the game disappeared (on a Zach Neto walk-off homer).So that wasn’t good … except for its contribution to this Weird and Wild column.Baseball Reference’s amazing Kenny Jackelen dug into this for us. On one hand, the A’s are the ninth team in the Baseball Reference data files to lose two nine-inning games in one season in which eight of each game’s innings featured zero hits allowed. On the other hand …• They’re the first team to do that in over three decades, since Hipolito Pichardo’s 1993 Royals.• They’re just the third team to do it in the last 50 years — joining those ’93 Royals and Charlie Hough’s 1986 Rangers.• They’re the first team to lose two games like that in any calendar month.• And they’re the first team to do this twice in a mere 13 days. The previous “record” belonged to Earl Yingling’s thirsty 1914 Reds, who lost two bizarre games like that in 22 days. Those losses aren’t worth explaining here, but check out the ninth inning of those Reds’ Oct. 2 loss to the Pirates sometime if you’re curious.Were those 1914 Reds resourceful enough to throw eight hitless innings and still find a way to cough up 13 runs? Of course not. But they were special enough to get a mention in this column. Apparently. So you’re welcome.The Shoh goes onThe incomparable Ohtani: Are you not entertained? (Christian Petersen / Getty Images)I honestly don’t mean to flood this column with Shohei Ohtani wonderment every week. But here’s my problem. It never stops. So I can’t stop. Feel free to skip ahead if you’re over this, but I’ll never be over it, because …