Since 1903 the onset of the modern era the league OBP has been .328. Take into consideration that Ott was only 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds, and it makes his accomplishments even more remarkable. Two years later, the Los Angeles Dodgers made him an eighth-round draft pick, touching off one of the longest careers in MLB history. During the 1908 season (click here for their schedule), the Detroit Tigers played in the most consecutive extra-inning games, September 9th through the 13th, five games featuring fifty-four innings. The safe money was on the 'Stros to hoist their second Commissioner's Trophy in three seasons. The Robins had since become the Dodgers, while the Braves were now in the middle of a five-year spell nicknamed the Bees. The teams traded zeros for 20 innings until night fell at Braves Field. 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. Each deserves mention here: Dallas Braden, Oakland A's (May 9, 2010); Roy Halladay, Philadelphia Phillies (May 29, 2010); Philip Humber, Chicago White Sox (April 21, 2012); Matt Cain, San Francisco Giants (June 13, 2012); Felix Hernandez, Seattle Mariners (Aug. 15, 2012). That's how the score stayed until the game was called due to darkness. But they announced their impending run of two consecutive AL pennants in the 2014 AL Wild Card Game, with a thrilling 9-8 comeback win in 12 innings against the Oakland Athletics. Wallace spent the majority of his career in St. Louis, where he played for the Perfects, Cardinals and Browns. since 2010, which is the most in the MLB. Not just for its sheer length, but because of the pitchers' duel that it contained. It was the second game of a doubleheader. But that third series would feature arguably the most memorable game of the Giants' magical even-year trifecta. But what about the longest nine-inning game in MLB history? As the teams marched on, they eventually set the record to that point for the longest night game in history, a note posted to the Astrodome scoreboard -- along with some lighthearted messages to the fans who stuck it out. There has never been a game that lasted more than nine hours in the history of the World Series between the Oakland As and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Wallace died on Nov. 3, 1960, one day before his 87th birthday. Although most leagues had a curfew rule that would have suspended the gamethe International League's activates at 12:50a.m.[2]the copy of the rule book of home plate umpire Dennis Cregg[1] failed to mention this cutoff time. Died: Oct. 31, 2018 (age 80, Stanford, California), Teams: San Francisco Giants (1959-73, 1977-80), San Diego Padres (1974-76), Oakland Athletics (1976), MLB Career highlights: National League MVP (1969), National League Rookie of the Year (1959), six-time MLB All-Star (1963, 1966, 1968-71). He was 18 years old when he played his first game in the majors, which also came three weeks after his mother murdered his father. Two of Maddux's most telling career statistics are his MLB records of 18 Gold Glove Awards and 17 consecutive seasons with at least 15 wins. [1], Grilli pitched to 3 batters in the 33rd Speck pitched to 1 batter in the 33rd WP - Jones, Two future inductees for the Baseball Hall of Fame were part of the historic game. The San Francisco Giants had already won titles in 2010 and 2012 when they faced the Kansas City Royals in the 2014 Fall Classic. Pawtucket won the game, 32. 7 (Tie). The average margin of victory from those games has been 12.2 points per game with only two decided by less than 12 points, including Buffalo's 27-24 win over Indianapolis two years ago. The president of the league, Harold Cooper, was finally reached on the phone by Pawtucket general manager Mike Tamburro sometime after 3:00a.m.; the horrified Cooper ordered that play stop at the end of the current inning. Al Weis, the games last out, expressed his dissatisfaction. Baines' induction into the Hall of Fame in 2019 might be one of the most hotly debated of all time. After the win, an emotional Scully serenaded the crowd with arecorded rendition of "Wind Beneath My Wings.". In baseball, a comeback is always possible. 1. Later that same inning, veteran Howie Kendrick lined an opposite-field two-run homer off the right field foul pole to make it 3-2 Nationals. On May 8, 1984, the Chicago White Sox and Milwuakee Brewers played the longest game in the history of major league baseball. In the bottom of the 25th -- after a scoreless top half by Tom Seaver, on in relief -- the White Sox ended the game with a bang. Even more amazing is he pitched no-hitters in three different decades over the span of 18 years. window.mc4wp = window.mc4wp || { Phil Niekro's 318 wins are the most for any primary knuckleball pitcher in MLB history, and the 539 combined wins between him and younger brother Joe Niekro are the most of any siblings in MLB history. Major League Baseball hopes to cut the average length of games to no more than three hours. The game featured 202 batters and latest 7 hrs/4 minutes at Shea. He led the National League in home runs six times and finished his career with 511 jacks. Died: Nov. 4, 1955 (age 88, Newcomerstown, Ohio), Teams: Cleveland Spiders (1890-98), St. Louis Perfectos/Cardinals (1899-1900), Boston Americans/Red Sox (1901-08), Cleveland Naps (1909-11), Boston Rustlers (1911), MLB Career highlights: World Series champion (1903), Triple Crown (1901), five-time MLB wins leader (1892, 1895, 1901-03), two-time ERA leader (1892, 1901), two-time MLB strikeouts leader (1896, 1901). Gossage also made nine All-Star teams. in the same hospital as Musial in Donora, Pennsylvania meaning arguably the two greatest left-handed hitters in MLB history were born on the same day in the same hospital. The game, which was tied 18 holes deep, now ties the record for longest game in a playoff series. One piece of trivia: This was one of Honus Wagner's final big league appearances -- the 43-year-old Hall of Famer, in his final MLB season, pinch-hit for the Pirates during the game. The entire episode took just three hours and 50 minutes. 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. [5] Dennis Cregg says that he thinks that David Cregg has never attended another baseball game. Died: Dec. 8, 1958 (age 70, Whitney, Texas), Teams: Boston Americans/Red Sox (1907-15), Cleveland Indians (1916-26), Washington Senators (1927), Philadelphia Athletics (1928), MLB Career highlights: Three-time World Series champion (1912, 1915, 1920), American League MVP (1912), MLB All-Century Team. He's the only non-New York Yankees player to win at least five World Series championships with the same team. Franco didn't stop playing ball after his MLB career either. When Hernndez mastered Steinbrenner misunderstood a "cost-of-living" clause in the contract and thought he was signing Winfield for $16 million. Since the start of the 2013 season, however, that figure has fallen to .319. Let's put the current perfect game drought in some historical context by looking at the time elapsed between each of those 23 perfect games: Those first two 19th-century perfectos are counted since they occurred in the National League, but they should really be dismissed since the rules of play were significantly different in 1880. Cleveland plated a run on a two-out RBI double by Brandon Guyer to make it 6-4 before Rajai Davis pulled a game-tying two-run homer to left on a 98 mph fastball. 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. Stan Musial led the St. Louis Cardinals to three World Series titles and was a three-time National League MVP. Yes, the teams played 49 innings across those two games and ended up with two ties. That's when unlikely Giants hero Conor Gillaspie laced a three-run homer off Mets closer Jeurys Familia. [3] Cregg had brought his nephew David to the game; David's father became concerned for his family and called the police, who told him that the game had not ended. At 1 a.m., the game was suspended after a three-way tie. 53 runners were left on base (30 by Rochester and 23 by Pawtucket). Now that the World Series isin the books, and the Cubs have broken the longest drought in sports, we can now start to digest what we've learned over these past seven games.It happened! All statistics courtesy of Baseball Reference. In 1919, the New York Giants and Philadelphia Phillies played the longest 9-inning game in the history of baseball, a 51-minute affair. Want to know how intimidating a hitter McCovey was? July 21, 1945: Detroit Tigers 1, Philadelphia Athletics 1Length: 24 inningsBefore the White Sox and Brewers surpassed them four decades later, the Tigers and A's had the AL record for longest game. But it skidded off the Astroturf and through shortstop Al Weis' legs, allowing the game's lone, walk-off run to score. As any 1980s card collector kid will remember from this famous Upper Deck card. MLB's career wins leader also threw three no-hitters and one perfect game. Thereupon, he called the game, to the satisfaction of himself and (fellow umpire Bob Hart) and the chagrin of everybody else concerned.". Carlton, who was also the first four-time Cy Young Award winner, refused to speak to the media starting in 1974 through the end of his career in 1988. Had Haddix's and Martinez's teammates provided them with a single run of support during the first nine innings, they'd be on the list above. [3], The Pawtucket Red Sox celebrated the 25th anniversary of the game on June 23, 2006. In the end, both teams played to a zero-zero-game in a game that lasted five hours and 47 minutes. He hit at least 40 home runs in a season eight times and had his greatest season in 1969, when he racked up 49 home runs and 140 RBI on the way to winning American League MVP honors. Both starting pitchers -- A's rookie Jack Coombs and the Americans' Joe Harris -- pitched the entire game. It was the reason such a great player switched teams so frequently. Born: Oct. 3, 1951 (Saint Paul, Minnesota), Teams: San Diego Padres (1973-80), New York Yankees (1981-88, 1990), California Angels (1990-91), Toronto Blue Jays (1992), Minnesota Twins (1993-94), Cleveland Indians (1995), MLB Career highlights: World Series champion (1992), 12-time MLB All-Star (1977-88), seven-time Gold Glove Award winner (1979, 1980, 1982-85, 1987), six-time Silver Slugger Award (1981-85, 1992). [7] Finally at 4:07a.m., at the end of the 32nd inning and more than eight hours after it began, the game was stopped. In October 2016, iconic Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully made his final call after 67 years behind the mic for the Dodgers, beginning when the franchise was still in Brooklyn. Teams: Baltimore Orioles (1976-86), Montreal Expos (1986-93), Cleveland Indians (1994-96), Seattle Mariners (1997), Atlanta Braves (1998), MLB Career highlights: Four-time MLB All-Star (1990-92, 1995). In 2008, the Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox played a game that lasted 19 innings. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2011 on his 14th try. Obviously, someone will break through at some point and pitch the next perfect game maybe it'll even happen this season. Harold Baines' career in the American League was defined as being a superstar player for a terrible team in the 1980s, the Chicago White Sox. He came perilously close to having 3,000 hits and 1,000 RBI for his career, finishing with 2,877 hits and 951 RBI. Willie Keeler, Baltimore Orioles (NL): 45 games, 1896-97. His accomplishments include helping his team to win seven American League pennants alongside four World Series championships! The wind blew into the infield, making hits difficult;[3] Pawtucket's Dave Koza later said that otherwise his team would have won in nine innings, with "four or five shots that would have been out of the park". Here is a rundown of that next-longest tier of games. Died: Nov. 21, 1958 (age 49, New Orleans, Louisiana), MLB Career highlights: World Series champion (1933), 12-time All-Star (1934-45). Mel Ott's resume as a power hitter on its own was almost unrivaled. Freese hit a key two-run double in Game 7 as the Cardinals came back to win their only Fall Classic of the decade. Henderson, who led the AL in stolen bases 12 times, played in the majors until he was almost 45 years old and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2009. [3], After Pawtucket's Luis Aponte pitched the seventh to tenth innings in relief, manager Joe Morganwho himself would be ejected in the 22nd inning by Cregg[2]let him leave before the game ended. All Rights Reserved. The Houston Astros have made the World Series He would finish the game with four hits and two RBI, and the Marlins won, 7-3. That was all for the scoring. That was the only offense until the 24th inning, when the A's broke open the game on a tiebreaking RBI single by Osee Schrecongost and RBI triples by Socks Seybold and Danny Murphy. Omar Vizquel is definitely in the conversation for the greatest fielding shortstop of all time. 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. Mack let starting pitcher Russ Christopher go the first 13 innings; he allowed one run. One long-suffering fanbase was going to celebrate, and another was going to keep suffering. [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). In the first four frames of a win against UT Martin in 2008, Belmont scored 19 runs. The weirdness began in the top of the seventh when a return throw to the mound by Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin caromed off the bat of Texas batter Shin-Soo Choo, allowing Rougned Odor to score from third base and giving the Rangers a 3-2 lead. The longest game in Major League Baseball history lasted 3 hours and 43 minutes. 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. Gossage had straight flames coming out of his powerful right arm, topping out at 103 miles per hour on a pitch during that 1978 season. Born: July 5, 1951 (Colorado Springs, Colorado), Teams: Chicago White Sox (1972-76), Pittsburgh Pirates (1977), New York Yankees (1978-83, 1989), San Diego Padres (1984-87), Chicago Cubs (1988), San Francisco Giants (1989), Texas Rangers (1991), Oakland Athletics (1992-93), Seattle Mariners (1994), MLB Career highlights: World Series champion (1978), nine-time MLB All-Star (1975-78, 1980-82, 1984, 1985), (Note: 37 MLB players are tied with 22 seasons each, only 20 are featured here). In the bottom of the 10th, Davis cut the lead to one with an RBI single, but Cubs pitcher Mike Montgomery induced a groundout by Cleveland's Michael Martinez to end the game and the Cubs' 108-year streak of futility. Still one of only 29 players in MLB history to play in four different decades, O'Rourke played his last MLB game in 1904, at 54 years old, 11 years after he'd last played in the majors. Aponte's wife did not believe his explanation for coming home at 3 a.m. Six years before they played 25 innings in Flushing, they played 24 against the Astros in Houston. The Bruins scored seven runs in each of their first two at-bats, and they scored 14 runs in each of their next three at-bats to lead 23-4 after three. 1. The game was between the Chicago White Sox and Milwaukee Brewers and was played at Milwaukee County Stadium. These players had the longest careers in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. Barry Bonds didn't need to use performance-enhancing drugs to become one of the greatest baseball players of all time, but he did it anyway. The Cubs jumped out to a 5-1 lead and were up 6-3 heading into the eighth inning. He won three of his seven National League MVP awards by 1993, and he also led the league in slugging percentage a staggering seven times in his career. Cap Anson ended his career with 3,435 hits and was one of MLB's first stars. In the top of the 10th, the Brewers finally broke through with a run, but the White Sox answered back with a run of their own in the bottom half of the inning. Ryan is one of just a handful of players to play in four different decades. After a 17-minute rain delay during which Cubs outfielder Jason Heyward reportedly delivered an inspirational speech, Chicago scored two runs in the top of the 10th on a double by Ben Zobrist and a single by Miguel Montero. \n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"rich","width":550,"__typename":"ExternalEmbedContent"},"$ROOT_QUERY.getForgeContentBySlug({\"locale\":\"en-us\",\"slug\":\"longest-games-in-baseball-history-c275773542\",\"type\":\"story\"}).parts.2":{"data":{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.getForgeContentBySlug({\"locale\":\"en-us\",\"slug\":\"longest-games-in-baseball-history-c275773542\",\"type\":\"story\"}).parts.2.data","typename":"ExternalEmbedContent"},"type":"oembed","__typename":"ExternalEmbed"},"$ROOT_QUERY.getForgeContentBySlug({\"locale\":\"en-us\",\"slug\":\"longest-games-in-baseball-history-c275773542\",\"type\":\"story\"}).parts.3":{"content":"**2 (Tie). Overall, he hit .348 with seven RBI over those seven games and won World Series MVP honors. He extended his career by at least a decade when he transitioned to being primarily a designated hitter. He also owns the career records for innings pitched (7356), starts (815) and complete games (749). He was 56 years old. If you like long innings and epic bat flips, this is the game for you. What to do for an encore? The win went to a young Gaylord Perry, who pitched 10 scoreless innings in relief with nine strikeouts. This game is unbelievable by today's standards. He never received greater than 6.1 percent of the vote while he was actually on ballots before the Today's Game Committee put him in Cooperstown. Yes, the Mets and Giants had already played nine innings (the Giants won, 5-3), when they took the field for 23 more. That was played by the Yankees and Red Sox on Aug. 18, 2006. The Mets estimated about 1,000 fans were left in the stands.\n\n\"I figured I could get to third,\" McBride said after the game, per The Associated Press report. Justin Fullerton and ZACH Lannan both hit home runs during the longest half-an-hour of college baseball. Unfortunately for them, they lost all three. "I just plain blew it," Weis said after the game. That's because the rules stipulate that a pitcher is credited with a perfect game only if he prevents any baserunners for the entire game even if that game stretches beyond the usual nine innings. Mack was only in his sixth season in Philadelphia when the first of those games took place before an estimated crowd of 18,000 on a Saturday afternoon at the Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston -- the home of the Red Sox before Fenway Park, when they were still called the Americans. As if the series needed more intrigue, the Cubbies faced the Cleveland Indians, who hadn't won a title since 1948, the second-longest active drought in MLB. He hit his 500th home run in 1929 15 years into his 22-year career. The Giants won in 2010, 2012 and 2014. He served a one-year suspension in 2014 for using PEDs, a full seven years after he hit his 500th home run. The idea that Ruth only hit home runs doesn't hold weight when you look closer at his stats. He also had 136 triples and 506 doubles. There is no straight answer to the question of how long a game should be. 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. Orosco is one of only 29 players in MLB history to pitch in four different decades and still has the MLB career record with 1,252 games pitched. Aug. 31, 1993: Minnesota Twins 5, Cleveland Indians 4The AL Central foes clashed for six hours and 17 minutes at the Metrodome before the home team came away with the win. "Then, when I turned second, I said to myself, 'I'm going all the way.'". Carlton Fisk remains one of the most well-known and well-respected catchers in MLB history. Again, the luck and randomness native to baseball are the real drivers. The first five runs in the game were scored by home runs. [3], A total of 27 future and former major leaguers played in the game. The longest Major League Baseball game by time elapsed took place on May 8, 1984, at Chicagos Comiskey Park. McBride led off with an infield hit, then scored all the way from first on a wild pickoff throw by Hank Webb. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Commissioner.com is a registered trademark of CBS Interactive Inc. site: media | arena: mlb | pageType: stories | Charlie Hough was a junior in high school when he spent the summer pitching against the collegiate competition in the Cape Cod League. Born: Nov. 21, 1969 (Donora, Pennsylvania), Teams: Seattle Mariners (1989-99, 2009-10), Cincinnati Reds (2000-08), Chicago White Sox (2008), MLB Career highlights: American League MVP (1997), 13-time MLB All-Star (1990-2000, 2004, 2007), 10-time Gold Glove Award winner (1990-99), seven-time Silver Slugger Award winner (1991, 1993, 1994, 1996-99), NL Comeback Player of the Year (2005), MLB All-Century Team. Then Joe Berry came in to pitch the final 11 frames, and he held the Tigers scoreless. Keith Hernandez appeared in only 14 games for the Cards as a rookie in 1974, and this was one. Because of more time for commercials to satisfy sponsors, post-season MLB games can take even longer. The Brooklyn Braves and Brooklyn Dodgers played a 26inning game in Brooklyn in 1889, setting a record for the longest game in Major League Baseball. In todays intentional walks, the batter is immediately awarded first base. callback: cb He only hit 47 home runs in 21 seasons, which is the least amount of home runs for any player in the 3,000 hit club. Games Year(s) League Joe Wilhoit: 69: 1919: Western League: Joe DiMaggio: 61: 1933: Pacific Coast League: Roman Mejias: 55: 1954: Big State League: Otto Pahlman: forms: { This fear was best (and most comically) evidenced by John Kruk's reaction when Johnson threw a fastball over his head during the 1993 All-Star Game. This tilt against the Giants, whose move to San Francisco in 1957 was one of the catalysts for the Mets becoming an MLB franchise, was played in front of 57,037 fans at Shea Stadium. Facing a potent Reds lineup anchored by 2010 NL MVP Joey Votto, Halladay was in command from the first pitch to the last. New York Yankees Jesse Orosco was at the peak of his powers in the late 1980s as a crafty, left-handed relief pitcher who helped lead two teams to World Series titles first with the New York Mets in 1986, then with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1988. The Cubs, meanwhile, divided up the innings between three pitchers. 106. Over two days, it took eight hours and six minutes to complete. There was an American League rule that no new inning could begin after that time. In the 20th inning, the scoreboard read: "We hope you are enjoying tonight's third game as much as you enjoyed the first two.". [3] After Pawtucket's Russ Laribee's sacrifice fly drove in Chico Walker in the bottom of the ninth inning and tied the game at one run each,[4] the teams continued playing. A baseball game lasts an average of 3 hours and 10 minutes. The Robins (the predecessors to the Dodgers) and Braves were tied at 1, and that's how the game ended. 2". 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