Eight Hours, Twenty Five Innings

On May 8, 1984, the Chicago White Sox and Milwaukee Brewers started a baseball game at Comiskey Park. They didn't finish it that night. AL rules said no inning could begin after 1:05 a.m. After 17 innings tied 3-3, the umpires called it. The teams reconvened the next afternoon on you guessed it, May 9, to keep playing. Eight more innings. Still tied. Then in the bottom of the 25th, with the score 6-6, White Sox DH Harold Baines crushed a Chuck Porter pitch into the right-center bleachers. Walk-off. Game over. Final: White Sox 7, Brewers 6. Total elapsed time: 8 hours, 6 minutes; the longest major-league game by time in history. Tom Seaver pitched the 25th and got the win. It was his 290th career victory; he'd been pitching long enough to have started his career 14 years before Baines was even drafted. Both teams had to play another full nine inning game right after the marathon ended. The Brewers won that one. So total baseball played in 26 hours: 34 innings.

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