was the detroit tigers game on aug 24 the latest game ever ?

Question

what i mean by latest is latest ending...
it ended at 3 30 AM!
has any game ever ended later than that ?

Answer 1

That was pretty late, but here's at least one major league game that wrapped up a bit later in the wee morning hours:

04-July-1985, New York at Atlanta -- in a marathon game that borders on the surreal‚ it takes 2 rain delays and 6:10 of playing time for the Mets to beat the Braves 16-13 in 19 innings. The Mets had taken a 10-8 lead in the top of the 13th inning‚ which the Braves tied. The Mets scored again in the 18th‚ but relief hurler Rick Camp (a .060 hitter who was batting because Atlanta had no more position players available to pinch-hit) tied the score with his first ML home run on a 2-out, 0-2 pitch in the bottom of the inning. The Mets finally ended it by scoring 5 runs in the 19th off Camp, while the Braves mustered only 2. The last batter, Camp, struck out with two men on -- another home run would have tied it. NY's Keith Hernandez hit for the cycle, and the game ended at 3:55 am, to that point the latest finish in ML history.

The punchline -- since the game had been promoted as Fireworks Night (it was, after all, July 4th, though by now it technically was the 5th), team officials decide to set off the massive display anyway.

At four in the morning.

At 4:01, local residents are awakened and think the city is under attack.

Not as whoppingly stupid as Disco Demolition Night, but surely one of the poorest operational choices in baseball history.

Box: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL198507040.shtml

Later, in 1993, the Phillies hosted a doubleheader against the Padres (which began on July 2), which was also plaqued by rain delays. The second game went ten innings, and ended when reliever Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams singled -- the third and last hit of his major league career -- to score the winning run at 4:40 am, July 3.


(Here was a link to a long and entertaining description of the Mets-Braves game, but Y!A appears to autochoke on mention of the competition's popular blog domain. Email if you're really interested.)

Answer 2

no. i know for a fact that there's one tomorrow night.

Answer 3

proboly