The longest professional baseball game starting one day and ending the next in a total of 33 innings
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Overview
The longest game in professional baseball history was a game in Pawtucket, RI, between the Rochester Red Wings and the Paw Sox.
The game started like a normal game, going through inning by inning, but little did the players and the fans know that this would not be any ordinary 9 or 10-inning game, but the longest professional baseball game stretching into the very next day and ending in the 33rd inning.
The Game
So the year is 1981, and it is an okay day, about 75 degrees with a breeze, and the game is being played, starting at 8:25 pm on April 18th, 1981, and would not end until the next day and a final time of 8 hours and 25 minutes.
Records set in the game
This is a list of records that were set during that game alone!
- Most innings: 33
- Total time for one game: 8 hours, 25 minutes
- Most Putouts (Outs) by one team in one game: 99 (PAW)
- Most total putouts (Outs)in one game: 195
- Most At-Bats for one team in one game: 114 (PAW)
- Most total at-bats in one game: 219
- Most Strikeouts (batting) by one team in one game: 34 (ROC)
- Most total strikeouts in one game: 60
- Most total assists in one game: 88
- Most at-bats by one player in one game: 14, Dave Koza, Lee Graham, Chico Walker(all PAW)
- Most plate appearances by one player in one game: 15, Tom Eaton, Cal Ripken JR., Dallas Williams (all ROC)
- Most strikeouts (batting) by one player in a game: 7, Russ Lairbee (PAW)
- Longest plate appearance by a single umpire: Dennis Cregg (882 pitches over 8 hours and 25 minutes)
MLB stars like Cal Ripken Jr and Wade Boggs played in the 33-inning game, with Jr playing for the Rochester Red Wings and Boggs playing for the Paw Sox.
The games final score through the 1st and 33rd inning
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