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.
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30 hours to play a game? World record or not, do they suck that badly?
2006-09-06 06:03:00 · 4 answers · asked by Firefly 4 in Sports ➔ Baseball
What is written about the *** is all that I have from the article.
2006-09-06 06:12:49 · update #1
Sounds like what they did was not have any innings...just keep rotating players in and playing a continuous game.
We did something like that in High School to raise money for the program. Each player went out and people gave money based on how many innings each guy could play.
This game you speak of is not a nine inning game. Not even considered extra innings. It was just a game that counted the 10th inning or the 80th inning, just like it counted the 1st inning.
Once they realized they had passed the record, they probably just finished the inning and called it a game.
2006-09-06 07:27:21 · answer #1 · answered by brianwerner1313 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did they keep playing, regardless of score? That's silly. If it was not tied after the ninth or each inning thereafter the game should have ended.
Also rotating guys in and out. That's against the rules. If they do that they could play indefinately. What's the point? It doesnt' take any special skill or endurance to enter and leave a baseball game...
2006-09-06 13:10:44 · answer #2 · answered by Alberto 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This would NEVER happen unless the teams were PURPOSELY trying to set a world record. In the modern era of players' associations, if a game goes on for too long, it would likely be ended in the best interest of the two teams. The teams don't suck, they just have nothing else to play for.
2006-09-06 14:06:26 · answer #3 · answered by Baseball Fanatic 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were playing it with the express purpose of trying to break the record, which I think is just plain dumb.
It's not that they're terrible, but it also wasn't exactly a major league contest.
2006-09-06 13:12:35 · answer #4 · answered by Craig S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋