Extra, extra, extra, extra innings!

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Posted by ali92 on Sep-06-2006 20:09:

Extra, extra, extra, extra innings!

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/news/story?id=2575719

WOW...

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Updated: Sep. 6, 2006, 11:36 AM ET

Extra, extra innings: Game lasts 30 hours, 84 frames

Associated Press

ALLIANCE, Neb. -- Talk about extra innings.

A baseball game that began at 10 a.m. on Saturday in Alliance ended Sunday at 4:05 p.m. That's 30 hours and five minutes between the first pitch and the final out. Game organizers are counting on the contest being long enough to break a world record.

Forty players, ranging in age from 18 to 44, rotated in and out of the 84-inning game in hopes of setting a new Guinness World Record for the longest baseball game.

The record stands at 25 hours, set in Canada nearly three years ago.

Alliance organizers tried for a record last year, but their 24-hour, 16-minute game fell short of the record by 44 minutes.

Far from a pitcher's duel, this year's game was won by the Alliance Times-Herald Dragons, which beat the WESTCO Knights, by a score of 120 to 114.

Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press

Posted by sensorium on Sep-07-2006 03:26:

So the match was tied most of the time?