ARLINGTON, Tex., Aug. 23 — A day later, Wes Littleton was still smiling over the good-natured barbs he heard after he was called to the mound to clean up the Texas Rangers’ record victory against the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night.

Or, as some of his teammates more precisely needled, picking over the bones of what might be considered the easiest save in baseball history.

Littleton, a 24-year-old relief pitcher in his second full major league season, became an unlikely entry in the record books while notching the second save of his career. In pitching the last three innings of the Rangers’ 30-3 rout in the first game of a doubleheader against Baltimore, he earned the distinction for recording a save with the largest winning margin.

“They were calling me a vulture, saying this had to be one of the cheapest saves ever,” Littleton said before the start of the Rangers game against the Seattle Mariners on Thursday night.