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32 innings were played April 18–19, 1981, at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and the final 33rd inning was played J. Pawtucket won the game, 3–2.

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The Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings, two teams from the Triple-A International League, played the longest game in professional baseball history. It lasted 33 innings, with 8 hours and 25 minutes of playing time. 32 innings were played April 18–19, 1981, at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and the final 33rd inning was played June 23, 1981. Pawtucket won the game, 3–2.

The game [ edit ]

The game commenced on Saturday, April 18, 1981, at 8:25 p.m.,[1] after a delay of around 30 minutes due to problems with the stadium lights, with an estimated 1,740 in attendance. It continued throughout the night and into Easter morning. Although most leagues had a curfew rule that would have suspended the game—the International League's activates at 12:50 a.m.[2]—the copy of the rule book of home plate umpire Dennis Cregg[1] failed to mention this cutoff time.[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.[3] Several times, a team would come close to victory before circumstances changed. When Wade Boggs drove in the tying run in the bottom of the 21st inning after a Rochester run, even the Pawtucket players groaned.[3] He recalled, "I didn't know if the guys on the team wanted to hug me or slug me."[5] The weather was so cold that players burned broken bats and the stadium's wooden benches to warm themselves, and the clubhouses ran out of food. 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".[6] For example, Sam Bowen hit a fly ball to center that reportedly left the field before the wind blew it back to Rochester outfielder Dallas Williams. Williams went 0–for–13 in 15 plate appearances, one of many records achieved during the game.[3] After Pawtucket's Luis Aponte pitched the seventh to tenth innings in relief, manager Joe Morgan—who himself would be ejected in the 22nd inning by Cregg[2]—let him leave before the game ended. Aponte's wife did not believe his explanation for coming home at 3 a.m. Sunday.[6] He promised that the Sunday newspaper would prove his story, but since the game's postponement occurred too late to appear in it, Aponte had to wait until the Monday edition.[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.[1] By 4 a.m. the players were "delirious" from exhaustion; Rochester's Dave Huppert had caught the first 31 innings before being replaced, and Jim Umbarger pitched 10 scoreless innings from the 23rd inning, striking out nine and giving up four hits. The president of the league, Harold Cooper, was finally reached on the phone by Pawtucket general manager Mike Tamburro sometime after 3:00 a.m.; the horrified Cooper ordered that play stop at the end of the current inning.[7] Finally at 4:07 a.m., at the end of the 32nd inning and more than eight hours after it began, the game was stopped.[3] There were 19 fans left in the seats—not including David Cregg, who had fallen asleep[1]—all of whom received season[2][3] or lifetime[1] passes to McCoy Stadium. As the players went home to rest before returning at 11 a.m. for an afternoon game that Sunday,[1] they saw people going to Easter sunrise service.[3] When Boggs' father complimented him for getting four hits in the game, the player admitted that he actually had 12 at bats.[5] Both teams signed a baseball on Sunday for display at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Cooper had suggested that the game resume that day, but Rochester manager Doc Edwards requested a delay because of the risk of injury.[6] Instead, it resumed on the evening of Tuesday, June 23, the next time the Red Wings were in town. A sellout crowd of 5,746 and 140 reporters from around the world were present, partly because the major leagues were on strike at the time; the players voted against an offer to resume the game at Fenway Park to avoid crossing the picket line. On that evening, it took just one inning and 18 minutes to finish the game, with Koza driving in the winning run in the bottom of the 33rd. The losing pitcher was Steve Grilli, who had joined Rochester in the interim since the game's suspension.[3]

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The Pawtucket Red Sox celebrated the 25th anniversary of the game on June 23, 2006. Many members of both teams attended a luncheon and round table discussion in Providence, Rhode Island, and a ceremony was held before the game against the Columbus Clippers that night.[5] Dennis Cregg says that he thinks that David Cregg has never attended another baseball game.[1]

Professional records set in the game [ edit ]

Most innings : 33

: 33 Total time for one game : 8 hours, 25 minutes

: 8 hours, 25 minutes Most putouts by one team in one game : 99 (PAW)

: 99 (PAW) Most total putouts in one game : 195

: 195 Most at-bats for one team in one game : 114 (PAW)

: 114 (PAW) Most total at-bats in one game : 219

: 219 Most strikeouts (batting) by one team in one game : 34 (ROC)

: 34 (ROC) Most total strikeouts in one game : 60

: 60 Most total assists in one game : 88

: 88 Most at-bats by one player in one game : 14, Dave Koza, Lee Graham, Chico Walker (all PAW) : 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) : 15, Tom Eaton, Cal Ripken Jr., Dallas Williams (all ROC) Most strikeouts (batting) by one player in a game: 7, Russ Laribee (PAW) Longest plate appearance by a single umpire: Dennis Cregg (882 pitches over 8 hours and 25 minutes)

Line score [ edit ]

April 18, 19, and June 23, 1981 at McCoy Stadium, Pawtucket, Rhode Island Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 R H E Rochester Red Wings 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 18 3 Pawtucket Red Sox 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 21 1 WP: Bob Ojeda LP: Steve Grilli

Attendance: ~1,740 (top of the 1st, April 18)

20 (bottom of the 32nd, April 19)

5,746 (June 23)

Notes: No outs when winning run scored.

Box scores [ edit ]

Batting [ edit ]

Rochester Player Pos. AB Runs Hits RBI Eaton 2B 10 0 3 0 Williams CF 13 0 0 0 Ripken 3B 13 0 2 0 Corey DH 5 1 1 0 Chism PH 1 0 0 0 Rayford C 5 0 0 0 Logan 1B 12 0 4 0 Valle 1B 1 0 0 0 Bourjos LF 4 0 2 1 Hale LF 7 0 1 0 Smith LF 0 0 0 0 Hazewood RF 4 0 0 0 Hart RF 6 1 1 0 Bonner SS 12 0 3 0 Huppert C 11 0 0 1 Putman PH 1 0 0 0 Totals 105 2 18 2 Pawtucket Player Pos. AB Run Hits RBI Graham CF 14 0 1 0 Barrett 2B 12 1 2 0 Walker LF 14 1 2 0 Laribee DH 11 0 0 1 Koza 1B 14 1 5 1 Boggs 3B 12 0 4 1 Bowen RF 12 0 2 0 Gedman C 3 0 1 0 Ongarato PH 1 0 0 0 LaFrancois C 8 0 2 0 Valdez SS 13 0 2 0 Totals 114 3 21 3

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Pitching [ edit ]

Rochester Player IP H R ER BB K Jones 8.2 7 1 1 2 5 Schneider 5.1 2 0 0 0 8 Luebber 8 6 1 1 2 4 Umbarger 10 4 0 0 0 9 Grilli (L) 0 0 1 1 1 0 Speck 0 1 0 0 0 0 Totals 32 21 3 3 5 26 Grilli pitched to 3 batters in the 33rd

Speck pitched to 1 batter in the 33rd

WP - Jones

Pawtucket Player IP H R ER BB K Parks 6 3 1 1 4 3 Aponte 4 0 0 0 2 9 Sarmiento 4 3 0 0 2 3 Smithson 3.2 2 0 0 3 5 Remmerswaal 4.1 4 1 1 3 3 Finch 5 3 0 0 1 3 Hurst 5 3 0 0 1 3 Ojeda (W) 1 1 0 0 0 1 Totals 33 18 2 2 18 34 Parks pitched to 3 batters in the 7th

WP - Smithson, Hurst.

Game notes and statistics [ edit ]

Russ Laribee of the PawSox went 0–for–11 with a sacrifice fly, striking out seven times, becoming the first player in history to surpass the titanium sombrero (six strikeout) level. Based on a nine-inning game, Laribee would only have struck out three times per nine innings. Between the two teams, pitchers faced a total of 246 batters (219 AB, 23 BB, 4 HBP).

A total of 882 pitches were thrown.

Pawtucket's Dave Koza had the most hits of any player in the game: five, including the game-winner. 53 runners were left on base (30 by Rochester and 23 by Pawtucket). The only player on either team who did not play in the game was future MLB manager Kevin Kennedy of Pawtucket.[ citation needed ]

Players involved [ edit ]

Two future inductees for the Baseball Hall of Fame were part of the historic game. Cal Ripken Jr., who was inducted in 2007, went 2-for-13 on the night playing third base for Rochester. Ripken made his major league debut two months after the game was completed, and was the American League's Rookie of the Year in 1982. Wade Boggs, who was inducted in 2005, played third base for Pawtucket and went 4-for-12 with a double and an RBI; he would make it to the majors starting in April 1982. The Baseball Hall of Fame possesses other artifacts of the game, including the official scorecard.[3] A total of 27 future and former major leaguers played in the game.[3]

See also [ edit ]

100 Inning Game — Longest amateur baseball game ever played (charitable event)

Extra innings#Longest games — Other long games including the longest major league games

References [ edit ]

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