18 innings....what's the record?

[13Gigatons]

Seems they are breaking some records tonight.

 

[13Gigatons]

I feel bad for the pitchers.

 

[ViRGE]

They've already set the record for the longest post-season game. I think the record in terms of innings is 25 innings, and in clock time it's like 8.5 hours.

 

[shortylickens]

I think I've heard stories of 20 innings.

The real question is: Why the fuck do people still care?

 

[13Gigatons]

They've already set the record for the longest post-season game. I think the record in terms of innings is 25 innings, and in clock time it's like 8.5 hours.

Longest game in major league history
The longest game, by time, in major league history was played on May 8 and 9, 1984 in Chicago. The Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago White Sox played seventeen innings on May 8 before the game was suspended with the score 3-3.

The next day, the game was resumed before the regularly scheduled game. In the 21st inning, it appeared the Brewers would win after Ben Oglivie hit a three run homer. The White Sox answered with three runs of their own, two of them on a Tom Paciorek single. The game continued into the 25th inning.

In the home half of the 25th, with one out, White Sox outfielder Harold Baines homered on the 753rd pitch of the game. The homer gave the Sox a 7-6 win. It also set the record for the latest in a game a player has slugged a home run. Carlton Fisk also set a record by catching all 25 innings.

Also notable, Tom Seaver won the game in relief for the Sox then started the regular game and threw another 8 1/3 innings to get two of his 311 career wins on the same day.

The game set a record for elapsed time, a total of 8 hours, 6 minutes. It was not the longest game for innings, as that was the famous 1-1 tie in which Leon Cadore and Joe Oeschger matched zeroes for 26 innings in 1920.

 

[ViRGE]

I think I've heard stories of 20 innings.

The real question is: Why the fuck do people still care?

Because it's the World Series, and if the Dodgers don't win this game then the odds that they can win the series will drop to all but nil.

 

[13Gigatons]

It's 12.30am in LA.

Can't imagine people are still watching in New York.

 

[ViRGE]

It's 12.30am in LA.

Can't imagine people are still watching in New York.

Well it's the Boston Red Sox. So I'd be more interested in what the people in Boston are doing.

 

[13Gigatons]

Well it's the Boston Red Sox. So I'd be more interested in what the people in Boston are doing.

Getting real drunk?

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Getting real drunk?

So like there was no baseball game at all.

 

[jpiniero]

Getting real drunk?

Can you imagine being at the game? They usually cut off sales in the 7th inning.

 

[local]

Can you imagine being at the game? They usually cut off sales in the 7th inning.

Yep. I was at a game a few years ago that went to 14 innings and that was excruciating. But last year I found the place in the ballpark that sells until everyone leaves so I'm good now.

 

[paperfist]

It's 12.30am in LA.

Can't imagine people are still watching in New York.

I watched just so I could root against the Sawx