Check this out from Jim Caple's column.
BOX SCORE OF THE WEEK
It was a long day at the park for Brooklyn Cyclones left fielder Dustin Martin last Thursday. How long? Try six hours and 40 minutes. Or 26 innings, the longest game in the history of the New York-Penn League.
Brooklyn scored in the first inning against the Oneonta Tigers, then was held scoreless the rest of the way. Oneonta tied the game in the fourth, and then the two teams traded zeroes the next 23 innings before Tigers center fielder Deik Scram broke out of an 0-for-11 day with a two-run single in the top of the 26th inning off converted outfielder Mark Wright. The Tigers went on to win 6-1 while Brooklyn's Martin went down with this box score line from hell:
11 AB, 1 R, 0 H, 0 RBI
His 0-for-11 day dropped his average from .278 to .241.
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2 comments:
Six hours and 40 minutes! And they got in 26 innings... obviously not an American League game. That's way too fast for an American League game. ;)
You've got to love baseball. There is no other game like it. It just keeps going on and on and on. There's no such thing as too much of a good thing. A baseball game could go on for days with the right set of circumstances. (Actually, that would make for one hell of a movie plot!)
I'm reminded of a game I witnessed in the friendly confines of my brother's apartment. It was a Nintendo Baseball Game that started at 9am when I headed off to work. The contestants were my brother and my friend Russ who was visiting from Idaho. When I got off work at 6ish, they were still playing. The game was in like the 56th inning or something. Their pitchers were so tired they were throwing like 30 mph fastballs. They ended up turning the game off when I arrived. So, score one for Bud Selig.
It was also still one hour quicker than it takes for John Burkett to run to first base. ;) I actually saw him get thrown out at first on a base hit and he was running as fast as he could!
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