When he returned from a one-year sabbatical for his final season with the Colorado Rockies in 2012, he twice became the oldest pitcher to win an MLB game at 49, then 50 years old. June 24, 1962: New York Yankees 9, Detroit Tigers 7The Yankees would win the World Series in 1962, the last title of the Mickey Mantle dynasty, and they were also the winners of this seven-hour game at Tiger Stadium. Since the start of the 2013 season, however, that figure has fallen to .319. Defensively, no one holds a candle to the 16-time Gold Glove Award winner who played his entire career for the Baltimore Orioles. The longest game in MLB postseason history was back in the 2018 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Boston Red Sox. Their record in that timespan was 1179-825. The cold weather made it difficult for both teams to play this game, which resulted in a disappointing outcome. The Yankees won the 1962 World Series in seven games, defeating the Detroit Tigers. 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. Glavine, who was also one of the greatest hitting pitchers of all time, played 22 seasons and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2014, his first year of eligibility. MLB.com takes a look back at those marathon contests. Batters who faced Johnson in his prime routinely talked about their fear for their own physical safety at the plate over the entirety of his 22 seasons. MLB set a record with 6,105 homers in 2017 and broke that mark with 6,776 in 2019. Wilson went nine scoreless and allowed only five hits. 45s/Astros (1963-68), Montreal Expos (1969-71), New York Mets (1972-75, 1981-85), Detroit Tigers (1976-79), Montreal Expos (1979), Texas Rangers (1980), MLB Career highlights: Six-time MLB All-Star (1967-71, 1976). The safe money was on the 'Stros to hoist their second Commissioner's Trophy in three seasons. Coming into Game 7 in Kansas City, San Francisco ace Madison Bumgarner had already thrown 47.2 mostly brilliant innings in the '14 postseason. Yes, the Mets and Giants had already played nine innings (the Giants won, 5-3), when they took the field for 23 more. Runs Scored Records for MLB Baseball Teams In 1930 Chicago, of the National League, set the Major League record by scoring more runs (218) against one club - Philadelphia - than any other team. The 1894 May 8, 1984: Chicago White Sox 7, Milwaukee Brewers 6Length: 25 inningsThis is the longest game in MLB history in terms of time. And, oh, yeah, Toronto won the game, 6-3, and the series. One long-suffering fanbase was going to celebrate, and another was going to keep suffering. Only three Major League Baseball teams have played at least 23 innings in three games. On September 25, Scully's final home game ended, fittingly, on a walk-off 10th-inning home run by Charlie Culberson that clinched the NL West for Los Angeles. 2022 ALDS Game 3 (Astros 1, Mariners 0): 18 innings What Cobb's legacy doesn't include is a World Series championship. Philadelphia Athletics, 20 (1916 and 1943) There are five teams that have had a losing streak end at 20 games with the Philadelphia Athletics being responsible for two of them. Then Joe Berry came in to pitch the final 11 frames, and he held the Tigers scoreless. Even with all that power, he still had a career .302 batting average. Harold Baines drove a walk-off home run off Chuck Porter to win it for Chicago.\n\n**2 (Tie). Martinez was a consistently great pitcher throughout his career. Want to know how intimidating a hitter McCovey was? It's one of the more interesting debates in all of sports. section: | slug: mlbs-perfect-game-drought-reaches-10-years-a-deeper-look-as-baseball-perfection-remains-elusive | sport: baseball | route: article_single.us | The only player on either team who did not play in the game was future MLB manager. Born: Sept. 13, 1949 (Fayetteville, Tennessee), Teams: Minnesota Twins (1969-72), New York Yankees (1973-76), Baltimore Orioles (1979-86, 1992), Cleveland Indians (1987), Los Angeles Dodgers (1988-90), Milwaukee Brewers (1991), MLB Career highlights: Two-time World Series champion (1983, 1988), World Series MVP (1988). In 2016, Miami Marlins ace Jose Fernandez died in a boating accident. The When the game resumed, the Brewers took the lead again in the 21st inning on a three-run homer by Ben Oglivie. Thome, who was influenced by getting turned down for an autograph from Dave Kingman as a youth, went out of his way to be kind to fans and had a flair for the dramatic. Incredibly, the game was scoreless until the bottom of the 24th, the longest any Major League game has ever stayed scoreless. All Rights Reserved by Baseball Almanac, Inc.Hosted by Hosting 4 Less. Jessy is an avid baseball fan and writer for the popular website, Baseball Writes. He was known for his pranks and mocking of umpires, behavior largely attributed to his love of drinking. The Giants led 6-1 after 23rd, but the Mets fought back and eventually won the game. The longest MLB game ever played was between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Braves on May 1, 1920, lasting a staggering 26 innings. With two runners on and two outs in the 20th inning, manager Steve O'Neill called on Dizzy Trout in relief. As any 1980s card collector kid will remember from this famous Upper Deck card. Baseballs extra-innings games are nothing new. He holds the MLB records for shortstops for best fielding percentage (.985), games played (2,968) and double plays turned (1,797). The 24-year-old was a two-time All-Star and one of the best up-and-coming pitchers in baseball. He knew it wasn't a Virginia ham and became convinced that it was too dark to play ball. He would finish the game with four hits and two RBI, and the Marlins won, 7-3. 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. The benches would later clear after a verbal altercation between Rangers pitcher Sam Dyson and the Blue Jays' Edwin Encarnacion. Born: Aug. 22, 1939 (Southampton, New York), MLB Career highlights: American League MVP (1967), Triple Crown (1967), 18-time MLB All-Star (1963, 1965-79, 1982, 1983). Kansas City third base coach Mike Jirscheleheld Gordon at third. Neither bullpen allowed a run, with Boston's Milt Shoffner turning in an especially strong relief effort, throwing eight scoreless innings to conclude the game. Keith Hernandez appeared in only 14 games for the Cards as a rookie in 1974, and this was one. A game ends after 4.5 innings if the home team is ahead by more than 200 runs, so there is no need for the visiting team to bat. Bumgarner sealed the win in the bottom of the inning and secured his third postseason shutout in two years. { Perez's son, Eduardo Perez, went on to play 13 seasons in the majors. Their record in that timespan was 1179 Both the Tigers and A's used only two pitchers. New York Yankees Jim O'Rourke, known as "Orator Jim," was a renaissance man who recorded the first hit in National League history and found time to graduate from Yale Law School. Mel Ott's resume as a power hitter on its own was almost unrivaled. Due to the weather, many MLB games have been shortened (usually by rain), but they are still considered official games. He wondered if it wasn't getting dark. Dempsey was a clutch part of two World Series championship teams the Baltimore Orioles in 1983 and the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1988. McBride led off with an infield hit, then scored all the way from first on a wild pickoff throw by Hank Webb. Since 1900, the longest game played has been defined as having at least seven innings. The Bruins won 34-10 in a game that lasted a total of four hours and 15 minutes. He was finally inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2017. Harold Baines walk-off home run off Chuck Porter in the ninth gave the Whitecaps a victory. 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). Los Angeles got strong pitching performances from Orel Hershiser, who shut out the Expos for the first seven innings, and a rookie John Wetteland, who did so for the final six. update=copyright.getFullYear(); In a decade that was largely defined by offense and a leaguewide home run explosion, this one was an old-fashioned pitcher's duel between a pair of aces: the Philadelphia Phillies' Roy Halladay and the St. Louis Cardinals' Chris Carpenter. [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. The second and sixth longest games are tied for sixth place, with the Rays-Guardians game now lasting more than five hours. Eckersley helped lead the A's to a World Series championship in 1989 and was named American League MVP in 1992. 1. Fifty players appeared in the game, and about 180 baseballs were used.\n\nJoe Torre, a Cardinals outfielder then, said afterwards: \"That was the fastest 25-inning game I ever played.\"","type":"markdown","__typename":"Markdown"},"$ROOT_QUERY.getForgeContentBySlug({\"locale\":\"en-us\",\"slug\":\"longest-games-in-baseball-history-c275773542\",\"type\":\"story\"}).parts.4.data":{"html":", September 11, 1974: The @Cardinals beat the @Mets, 4-3, in 25 innings. 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. Baines' induction into the Hall of Fame in 2019 might be one of the most hotly debated of all time. 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. Killebrew was an understated, quiet star who played in the World Series just once, in 1965, when the Twins lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers. In high school, he was one of the nation's most sought-after running back recruits in football. But though the names had changed, the result was the same: Just as in the first marathon, no winner was decided. He had over 100 RBIs in seven consecutive seasons from 1970 to 1976. In the sixth, the Bruins set three NCAA single-inning records. [5] Dennis Cregg says that he thinks that David Cregg has never attended another baseball game. The Kansas City Royals wouldn't win the World Series (their first since 1985) until 2015. Copyright 1999- Born: May 18, 1937 (Little Rock, Arkansas), MLB Career highlights:Two-time World Series champion (1966, 1970), 18-time MLB All-Star (1960-74), American League MVP (1964), World Series MVP (1970), 16-time Gold Glove Award (1960-75), MLB All-Century Team. I agree to receive the "CBS Sports HQ Newsletter" and marketing communications, updates, special offers (including partner offers), and other information from CBS Sports and the Paramount family of companies. Died: Dec. 26, 2020 (age 81, Flowery Branch, Georgia), Teams: Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves (1964-83, 1987), New York Yankees (1984-85), Cleveland Indians (1986-87), Toronto Blue Jays (1987), MLB Career highlights: Five-time All-Star (1969, 1975, 1978, 1982, 1983), five-time Gold Glove Award (1978-80, 1982, 1983), two-time NL wins leader (1974, 1979), MLB ERA leader (1967), NL strikeout leader (1977). Mueller was one of the many ballplayers just returning from military service in World War II when this game was played. In essence, a pitcher is competing against the opposing team's on-base percentage when attempting to pitch a perfect game (fielding errors can also ruin a perfecto, of course). 4 times From the moment the recording of Bob Sheppard making his signature announcement began"Now batting for the YankeesNo. The teams played seven more scoreless innings until the 22nd, when Troy Tulowitzki drove the go-ahead double to deep left-center, and the Rockies held on. It's worth noting that the ultimate outcome of the thing keeping Clemens out of Cooperstown accusations of steroid use was one mistrial and one acquittal on all six counts of lying to Congress during its hearings on steroids in baseball. The Cardinals and Mets in 1974 also hit 25 innings. For the Tigers, Les Mueller handled the first 19 2/3 innings, allowing only one unearned run. No catcher held up better in MLB's early era than Deacon McGuire, who learned how to play baseball on cement lots before transitioning to semipro ball on the weekends while working in an iron foundry during the week. He came perilously close to having 3,000 hits and 1,000 RBI for his career, finishing with 2,877 hits and 951 RBI. The Boston Red Socks defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 18-11 in Game 1 of the 2018 World Series to claim their first championship. Pawtucket won the game, 32. Vizquel is one of just 29 players in MLB history to play in four different decades and the only shortstop to do so. T7. The longest Major League Baseball game by time elapsed took place on May 8, 1984, at Chicagos Comiskey Park. In a long history of MLB villains, Anson might be the very worst. Every once in a while, two teams meet on the field and produce a game far longer than a single game has any business going -- even beyond the 20-inning mark. When Hernndez mastered He chose baseball, and the rest is history. One of the toughest, meanest pitchers to ever step on the mound, Wynn served two years fighting in World War II and won his only Cy Young in 1959, his 21st season. Pawtucket's Dave Koza had the most hits of any player in the game: five, including the game-winner. 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. listeners: [], MLB set a record with 6,105 homers in 2017 and broke that mark with 6,776 in 2019. 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. But it does have a heaping of tragedy. But by the sixth, the Tigers had tied the game at 7, on Rocky Colavito's run-scoring single. Honus Wagners final big league appearance came in this game as a pinch-hitter for the Pirates. Carl Yastrzemski played all 23 years of his MLB career with the Boston Red Sox but never won a World Series. The Robins (the predecessors to the Dodgers) and Braves were tied at 1, and that's how the game ended. 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. 53 runners were left on base (30 by Rochester and 23 by Pawtucket). 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. a home run by Yasiel Puig. The game started as a pitchers' duel between San Diego's Jake Peavy, who threw eight scoreless innings and struck out 11, and Colorado's Jeff Francis, who went seven scoreless. Coombs was especially brilliant, yielding just the one run and striking out 18. 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