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 The Question:
I was searching your site for, but could not find the answer to,
my question. I am trying to find out what was the longest baseball
game ever, in innings and the final score of that game and, possibly,
how many pitchers were used by the teams involved.
The Answer:
The longest professional baseball game in history began on April
18, 1981 and featured two Triple A minor-league teams — the
Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings. At 4:07 a.m. on April
19, with the score tied 2-2, the game was suspended after 32 innings.
The game was resumed on June 23, 1981, and ended when Dave Koza's
bases-loaded single in the bottom of the 33rd inning scored Marty
Barrett, giving Pawtucket a 3-2 win over Rochester. The continuation
took only 18 minutes to complete. Bob Ojeda pitched one inning to earn
the win. Future ML stars Wade Boggs and Cal Ripken, Jr. went a
combined 6-for-25 in the game. TOTAL: 33 innings, 8 hours 25
minutes.
The longest game in major league baseball
history was a 26-inning affair on May 1, 1920 when the Brooklyn
Dodgers and the host Boston Braves tied 1-1. Both starting
pitchers—Brooklyn's Leon Cadore and Boston's Joe
Oeschger—stayed in the game until it was called on account of
darkness. Play was faster back then; the game lasted 3 hours and 50
minutes.
—The Editors Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
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