15 innings

Subject: 15 innings Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:26 am

What do you guy's think of the fifteen inning all-star game tuesday night? I thought it was great, it was the longest all-star game in history!

Subject: Re: 15 innings Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:47 pm

Oh man I missed it. 15 innings is way too many. I have attended a game that lasted 11, and I was ready to cry from boredom.

Does anyone know how long the longest MLB game ever is?

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Subject: Re: 15 innings Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:36 pm

Hmmm... have to do a little research on that!!

Subject: Re: 15 innings Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:49 am

I think I would have gone to sleep. If it ain't hockey, I ain't interested.

Besides, baseball is a very SLOW game. They should put a few randomly placed landmines on the field and maybe a couple of snipers in the crowd to liven things up.

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Subject: Re: 15 innings Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:58 pm

Oh man now that would be interesting (to say the least)
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Staybrite wrote:

Does anyone know how long the longest MLB game ever is?

There was one that went for something like 36-38 hours IIRC, back in the forties, I think.

Subject: Re: 15 innings Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:05 pm

Tall Tyrion wrote:

Staybrite wrote:

Does anyone know how long the longest MLB game ever is?

There was one that went for something like 36-38 hours IIRC, back in the forties, I think.

Wow Really? That is insane.
I can't imagine that they would have been able to hold an audience for even half of that time.
They players must have tried to sleep in the dugout or something.

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Subject: Re: 15 innings Mon Jul 21, 2008 4:11 pm

Staybrite wrote:

Does anyone know how long the longest MLB game ever is?

Major League

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So what exactly was the longest baseball game in the world?

Home team: Brooklyn
Dodgers
Visitors: Boston
Braves
Date:
May 01 1920
Innings:
26
The game was called due to darkness, as they didn't
have lights way back then, resulting in a 1 - 1 tie and going down in history as
the longest game by innings.
Home team: Chicago
White Sox
Visitors: Milwaukee Brewers
Date:
May 09 1984
Innings:
25
Length:
8 hours & 6 minutes
The game began on May 08 but according to MLB rules an
inning cannot begin after 12:59 AM so the players and fans had to come back the
next day.

The overall game time was 8 hours 6 minutes with Chicago
finally winning 7- 6 on Harold Baines' home run in the 25th inning,
one inning short of the record, but still the longest game based on time.

Minor League:

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The Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings, two teams from the triple-A International League, played the longest game in professional baseball history in 1981 at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
The game began on Saturday, April 18, 1981, and continued through the night and into Easter morning before finally being suspended. Although most leagues have a curfew rule that would have suspended the game, the rule book that the home plate umpire had that night did not contain one. So the teams continued playing until the president of the league, Harold Cooper, was finally reached on the phone sometime after 3 a.m. Finally at 4:07, at the end of the 32nd inning, the game was stopped and would be resumed at a later date.
The game resumed on the evening of Tuesday, June 23,
the next time the Red Wings were in town. A sellout crowd and news
media from around the world were on hand, partly because the major leagues were on strike at the time. On that evening, it took just one inning and 18 minutes to settle the game, with Pawtucket's Dave Koza driving in Marty Barrett for the winning run in the bottom of the 33rd.

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That's one LONG game! Well, at least you got your moneys worth!

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Subject: Re: 15 innings Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:44 pm

Wow, 33 innings! I definately wouldn't have stayed (or returned) for all of that.

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