Longest professional baseball game
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The Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings, two teams from the triple-A International League, played the longest game in professional baseball history in 1981 at Pawtucket's McCoy Stadium.
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 4:09, at the end of the 32nd inning, the game was stopped and would be resumed at a later date. At this point, there were 19 fans left in the seats.[1][dubious – discuss]
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 Marty Barrett for the winning run in the bottom of the 33rd.
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The Sox were also involved (and won I might add ) the longest playoff game I believe.
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I got home from my softball game at 10:40 and still watched the rest of the game, a full 9 innings. I know Josh Bard caught the whole thing for the Pads and I believe the so did the Rockies catcher.
I got home from my softball game at 10:40 and still watched the rest of the game, a full 9 innings. I know Josh Bard caught the whole thing for the Pads and I believe the so did the Rockies catcher.
Did you all catch who the player of the day was? The TV Viewers!
Poor Matt & Mark (announcers). The concession stands were closed and they starved the rest of the night. Matt almost ate Mark's hat.
I stayed up for the whole darned thing. Ugh. I was SO frustrated. Tony helped me stay away by PM'ing with me. Thanks for that!
In honor of the game, I've changed my avatar. Ta da!
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) the longest playoff game I believe. 
Thanks for that!
That's classic! Stay awake much M? 
I don't usually go to bed before 2am.
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