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Originally Posted by MaDef
last year game 3 between the Red Sox and the Dodgers went 18 innings and lasted 7 hr and 20 min. Dodgers won 3-2.
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The Giants and Mets beat that record by 3 minutes; in 1964, they played a game that lasted 23 innings and was 7 hours and 23 minutes long; it was also the second game in a double header played on that day, with the first game going for the regulation 9 innings; this means both teams played a total of 32 innings that day:
5 of the longest, strangest games in MLB history --
https://www.mlb.com/cut4/5-of-the-lo...ry/c-174486106
I was still living in San Francisco at the time, was (and still am) a Giants fan; I recall there was a Catholic archbishop who had attended the first game in New York and left in the third inning of the first game to catch an air flight back to San Francisco; when he got to SFO, he caught a taxi back to The City and noticed the driver was listening to a ball game on his car radio; he realized it was the Giants vs. the Mets and thought it was a replay of one of the double-header games and, when he asked the driver which game was being rebroadcast, he was shocked to learn it was a live broadcast of the second game; the archbishop had flown clear across the country before the game ended...
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