[Lefty Noob]

Anyone catch April 18th's 22-inning game between the Colorado Rockies and the San Diego Padres?

According to the Associated Press, "It started with reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Jake Peavy throwing the first pitch just before sunset and ended right around last call... In between, the Colorado Rockies and San Diego Padres played baseball for 6 hours, 16 minutes. There was a seventh-inning stretch, a 14th-inning stretch and finally, a 21st-inning stretch... So forgive Colorado’s Yorvit Torrealba and San Diego’s Josh Bard if their knees are a little sore—they caught all 22 innings... Torrealba wearily pumped a fist in celebration at 1:21 a.m. Friday after Kip Wells finally secured the Rockies’ 2-1 victory by getting Padres pitcher Glendon Rusch to take a called third strike on the game’s 659th pitch... It was the longest game in the majors since Aug. 31, 1993, when Minnesota beat Cleveland 5-4 in 22 innings; the longest in Rockies history and in the 5-year history of Petco Park; and the longest by innings for the Padres."

Crazy, crazy game. Lots of records set, and the game itself was one of the 20 longest in baseball history.
Let's play 2 1/2 -- Rockies-Padres marathon goes 22 innings - MLB - Yahoo! Sports

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Didn't the White Sox once go 25 innings?...What's the record anyway?

And Peavy starting...you would think it's not gonna go 22, with him in there.

[Lefty Noob]

"The longest ever was 26 innings, a 1-1 tie between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves on May 1, 1920, at Boston. That game, by the way, took only 3 hours, 50 minutes." - Hard to believe there was a time where they could play 26 innings in under four hours, isn't it?

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by Lefty Noob

"The longest ever was 26 innings, a 1-1 tie between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves on May 1, 1920, at Boston. That game, by the way, took only 3 hours, 50 minutes." - Hard to believe there was a time where they could play 26 innings in under four hours, isn't it?

It was better that way...

I remember watching Mike Hargrove at bat...they called him "the Human Rain Delay"...baseball slowed down over the years...

[azrael492]

Originally Posted by Gotham Dark Knight

It was better that way...

I remember watching Mike Hargrove at bat...they called him "the Human Rain Delay"...baseball slowed down over the years...

I used to hate watching him. I would always have to go to bed before the games ended because of him. I remember yelling at the TV for him to hurry up.