Longest Baseball Game Ever Played

Home team:       Brooklyn Dodgers
Visitors:             Boston Braves
Date:                  May 01 1920
Innings:              26
The game was called due to darkness, as they didn't have lights way back then, resulting in a 1 - 1 tie and going down in history as the longest game by innings.

Home team:       Chicago White Sox
Visitors:             Milwaukee Brewers
Date:                  May 09 1984
Innings:              25
Length:               8 hours & 6 minutes
The game began on May 08 but according to MLB rules an inning cannot begin after 12:59 AM so the players and fans had to come back the next day.
The overall game time was 8 hours  6 minutes with Chicago finally  winning 7- 6 on  Harold Baines' home run in the 25th inning, one inning short of the record, but still the longest game based on time.

The game began on Saturday, April 18, 1981, and continued through the night and into Easter morning before finally being suspended. Although most leagues have a curfew rule that would have suspended the game, the rule book that the home plate umpire had that night did not contain one. So the teams continued playing until the president of the league, Harold Cooper, was finally reached on the phone sometime after 3 a.m. Finally at 4:07, at the end of the 32nd inning, the game was stopped.

The game resumed on the evening of Tuesday, June 23, the next time the Red Wings were in town. A sellout crowd and news media from around the world were on hand, partly because the major leagues were on strike at the time. On that evening, it took just one inning and 18 minutes to settle the game, with Pawtucket's Dave Koza driving in Bill McDaniel for the winning run in the bottom of the 33rd.
Records set in the game.


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