[3], A total of 27 future and former major leaguers played in the game. Born: Nov. 18, 1962 (Sellersville, Pennsylvania), Teams: Chicago Cubs (1986-88), Texas Rangers (1989-90), St. Louis Cardinals (1991), Baltimore Orioles (1993-95), Boston Red Sox (1996), Seattle Mariners (1996-2006), Philadelphia Phillies (2006-10), Colorado Rockies (2012), MLB Career highlights: World Series champion (2008), MLB All-Star (2003). Well, he also started this 22-inning game at Ebbets Field three years earlier, although he went only seven innings and was removed after the Pirates tied the game against him with a pair of runs in both the sixth and the seventh. Neither team scored again until the 25th, when St. Louis' Bake McBride -- aptly nicknamed "Shake 'n Bake" -- made something happen with his wheels. The Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Guardians played the longest MLB game in 2022 on September 17. The problem? 3. 2, Derek JeterNo. He has been writing about the sport for over five years and is passionate about sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm for the game. The game began on May 8. The game lasted 7 hours and 6 minutes, and the Rays eventually won 8-7. Justin Fullerton and ZACH Lannan both hit home runs during the longest half-an-hour of college baseball. He was finally inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2017. Detroit tied things up in the top of the seventh on a Doc Cramer run-scoring groundout. David Freese and the St. Louis Cardinals had other plans. Joe Torre, a Cardinals outfielder then, said afterwards: "That was the fastest 25-inning game I ever played.". Carlton Fisk remains one of the most well-known and well-respected catchers in MLB history. The game commenced on Saturday, April 18, 1981, at 8:25p.m.,[1] after a delay of around 30 minutes due to problems with the stadium lights, with an estimated 1,740 in attendance. The game lasted five hours and 41 minutes, and was won on a walk-off home run by Scott Podsednik. In baseball, a comeback is always possible. The San Francisco Giants had already won titles in 2010 and 2012 when they faced the Kansas City Royals in the 2014 Fall Classic. Anson refused to play with or against Black players during his career and fought for segregation in baseball throughout his career. It wasn't just your ordinary 23-inning game, though. But down to their final out and facing Hall of Famer Rollie Fingers, the White Sox rallied to tie the score on a double by Julio Cruz and a single by Rudy Law.\n\nNeither team scored again until the next day. If the past decade of baseball was about one thing, it was home runs. Aug. 22, 1917: Brooklyn Robins 6, Pittsburgh Pirates 5You might remember Leon Cadore as the starting pitcher for the Robins who went all 26 innings in MLB's longest game. . Born:Nov. 11, 1991 (Springfield, Massachusetts), Died:Jan. 6, 1954 (age 62, Queens, New York), Teams: Boston Braves (1912-20), Pittsburgh Pirates (1921-24), Chicago Cubs (1925), Brooklyn Robins (1926), St. Louis Cardinals (1927-28), Boston Braves (1929-33, 1935), MLB Career highlights: World Series champion (1914), National Baseball Hall of Fame (1954). Roger Clemens is the only member of the 300 win club not yet inducted into the Hall of Fame despite having been eligible for induction since 2013. It was high drama spread across two cities, and likely part of the reason MLB decided, beginning in 2015, to schedule all games on the season's final day for the same start time. In the 23-inning Game 2, the Giants jumped out to a 6-1 lead, including a first-inning RBI single by Willie Mays. Los Angeles Dodgers Teams: New York Mets/San Francisco Giants (1951-52, 1954-72), New York Mets (1972-73), MLB Career highlights: World Series champion (1954), two-time National League MVP (1954, 1965), National League Rookie of the Year (1951), 12-time Gold Glove Award winner (1957-68), 24-time MLB All-Star (1954-73), MLB All-Century Team. McBride led off with an infield hit, then scored all the way from first on a wild pickoff throw by Hank Webb. Kansas City third base coach Mike Jirscheleheld Gordon at third. Rusty Staub was only 19 when he became a full-time MLB player with the Houston Colt .45s in 1963 and played in 150 games. McGuire, who was an MLB manager for several teams after his career ended, retired with MLB records for most career games for a catcher (1,612), most catcher assists (1,860), most catcher double plays (143), most runners caught stealing (1,459) and most stolen bases allowed (2,546). With two outs, Giants center fielder Gregor Blanco misplayed a bloop single off the bat of Alex Gordon and allowed the ball to roll to the wall. window.mc4wp.listeners.push( And, oh, yeah, Toronto won the game, 6-3, and the series. He was also arguably the greatest left-handed hitter of all time. The game ended in the 25th when a walk-off goal gave the Wizards a victory of 8 hours and 6 minutes. Born: Nov. 4, 1873 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Died:Nov. 3, 1960 (age 86, Torrance, California), Teams: Cleveland Spiders (1894-98), St. Louis Perfectos/Cardinals (1899-1901), St. Louis Browns (1902-16), St. Louis Cardinals (1917-18), MLB Career highlights: National Baseball Hall of Fame (1953). { Again, the luck and randomness native to baseball are the real drivers. WebLets give the nine closest runners-up to the longest MLB hitting streak a little bit of credit as we count down the 10 longest hitting streaks in baseball history. Pete Rose may never make the Hall of Fame after being banned from the game for betting on his own team, but you can't be taken away his records. The Cardinals and Mets in 1974 also hit 25 innings. He's still the last pitcher to win 25 or more games in the National League and the last pitcher in all of MLB to throw 300 innings in a single season. [3], The Pawtucket Red Sox celebrated the 25th anniversary of the game on June 23, 2006. Born: Dec. 26, 1947 (Bellows Falls, Vermont), Teams: Boston Red Sox (1969-80), Chicago White Sox (1981-93), MLB Career highlights: AL Rookie of the Year (1972), Gold Glove Award (1972), 11-time MLB All-Star (1972-74, 1976-78, 1980-82, 1985, 1991), three-time Silver Slugger Award (1981, 1986, 1988),National Baseball Hall of Fame (2000). Not only was he winless in four trips to the World Series, but the Dodgers won the World Series twice right after he left the team, in 1981 and 1988. 1. After the final out, the Marlins players piled their hats on the mound next to a stenciled-on No. Obviously, this involves a high degree of subjectivity. Brooklyn's run came courtesy of leadoff man Ivy Olson, who lined an RBI single over Hall of Fame shortstop Rabbit Maranville's head in the fifth. This was the fourth consecutive game in which the temperature fell below freezing, and the fifth time this season the game was played in such temperatures. MLB's career wins leader also threw three no-hitters and one perfect game. [3], "Dedicated umpire stayed at the plate for 32 innings", "A Look Back at Professional Baseball's Longest Game", "Morgan, Boggs and others commemorate baseball's longest game", "By Sports of The Times; Pawtucket's 32-Inning Game", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Longest_professional_baseball_game&oldid=1125957046, April 1981 sports events in the United States, June 1981 sports events in the United States, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2022, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, ~1,740 (beginning of the game on April 18). [6] Instead, it resumed on the evening of Tuesday, June 23, the next time the Red Wings were in town. Franco didn't stop playing ball after his MLB career either. In the first four frames of a win against UT Martin in 2008, Belmont scored 19 runs. and Teams: Boston Red Sox (1984-96), Toronto Blue Jays (1997-98), New York Yankees (1999-2003, 2007), Houston Astros (2004-06), MLB Career highlights: Two-time World Series champion (1999, 2000), seven-time Cy Young Award (1986, 1987, 1991, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2004), AL MVP (1986), two-time Triple Crown (1997, 1998), four-time MLB wins leader (1986, 1987, 1997, 1998), seven-time MLB ERA leader (1986, 1990-92, 1997, 1998, 2005), five-time AL strikeout leader (1988, 1991, 1996-98), MLB All-Century Team. The losing pitcher was Steve Grilli, who had joined Rochester in the interim since the game's suspension. McBride led off with an infield hit, then scored all the way from first on a wild pickoff throw by Hank Webb. And he was 46 years old when he pitched in his last game. He had over 100 RBIs in seven consecutive seasons from 1970 to 1976. When Wade Boggs drove in the tying run in the bottom of the 21st inning after a Rochester run, even the Pawtucket players groaned. A 12-time American League batting champion, Cobb also led the AL in stolen bases six times, RBI four times and still holds the MLB record for career batting average at .366. Both the Tigers and A's used only two pitchers. These MLB players excelled for decades and became baseball legends. Leon Cadore and Joe Oeschger each pitched 26 complete frames in a 26-inning marathon that ended 11 after two days in 1920. Teams: New York Mets (1966, 1968-71), California Angels (1972-79), Houston Astros (1980-88), Texas Rangers (1989-93), MLB Career highlights: World Series champion (1969), eight-time All-Star (1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1989), 11-time MLB strikeout leader (1972-74, 1976-79, 1987-90), two-time NL leader (1981, 1987), MLB All-Century Team. Died:Jan. 5, 1963 (age 66, Chicago, Illinois), Teams: St. Louis Cardinals (1915-26, 1933), New York Giants (1927), Boston Braves (1928), Chicago Cubs (1929-32), St. Louis Browns (1933-37), MLB Career highlights: World Series champion (1926), two-time National League MVP (1925, 1929), two-time Triple Crown winner (1922, 1925), seven-time National League batting champion (1920-25, 1928), MLB All-Time Team. 2022 ALDS Game 3 (Astros 1, Mariners 0): 18 innings The two teams had been tied at 3-3 after 18 innings when the clock struck 1 a.m. Pujols won two World Series championships and three National League MVP awards in the first decade and is just one of four players with 3,000 hits and 600 home runs alongside Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Alex Rodriguez. Due to the weather, many MLB games have been shortened (usually by rain), but they are still considered official games. This is the second time in MLB history that a game lasted at least six hours and 18 minutes, and it is the third time in MLB history that a game lasted at least 18 minutes. May 1, 1920: Brooklyn Robins 1, Boston Braves 1Length: 26 inningsThe longest game by innings in Major League history could have gone even longer -- after 26 innings, the game was called due to darkness. It was the longest half-inning in MLB history. T7. In 1919, the New York Giants and Philadelphia Phillies played the longest 9-inning game in the history of baseball, a 51-minute affair. The longest baseball game, the shortest baseball game, the most innings ever played in a single game, and other similar game length records are one of the most asked for items on the Internet. The Kansas City Royals wouldn't win the World Series (their first since 1985) until 2015. His 13 career walk-off home runs are still an MLB record. The Rays began to bite into the Yanks' lead and eventually tied the game, sending it to extra innings. On May 31, 1964, the date was changed from May 31 to May 31. Of course, the moment was much bigger than any box score. The Robins (the predecessors to the Dodgers) and Braves were tied at 1, and that's how the game ended. Died: April 4, 1999 (age 79, Venice, Florida), Years played: 1939, 1941-44, 1946-48, 1949-63, Teams: Washington Senators (1939, 1941-44, 1946-48), Cleveland Indians (1949-57, 1963), Chicago White Sox (1958-62), MLB Career highlights: Cy Young Award (1959), nine-time All-Star (1947, 1955-60), two-time MLB wins leader (1954, 1959), AL ERA leader (1950), two-time AL strikeouts leader (1957, 1958). The stat that stands out the most for Sheffield over his career is that in 22 seasons he only struck out over 80 times in a single season twice. 4 (Tie). 1999, 2001, 2002), nine-time MLB strikeouts leader (1992-95, 1999-2002, 2004). In a must-see NL Wild Card Game matchup between San Francisco Giants postseason hero Madison Bumgarner and New York Mets right-hander Noah Syndergaard, the score was 0-0 heading into the ninth inning. When the game resumed, the Brewers took the lead again in the 21st inning on a three-run homer by Ben Oglivie. [3] He recalled, "I didn't know if the guys on the team wanted to hug me or slug me. That said, in compiling these rankings, we considered several key factors: We left out a lot of excellent games and big moments. In an interesting twist of fate, Henderson was a big-time college football recruit out of high school in Oakland, but chose baseball after his mother, Bobbie, told him that baseball players had longer careers. He's the only non-New York Yankees player to win at least five World Series championships with the same team. 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