A Way Out: The Baseball World Record

A Way Out: The Baseball World Record is a blog about baseball and the world record for the longest baseball game ever played.

Introduction

In baseball, records are meant to be broken. That’s why it’s so hard to fathom that one record has stood strong for almost two decades now. That record is “Most Home runs in a Single Season”. The current holder of that record is Barry Bonds, who in 2001 hit an astounding 73 home runs. Let’s take a look at how he accomplished this amazing feat, and whether or not his record may finally be broken.

The Baseball World Record

In baseball, a player on one team throws a ball to a player on the other team, who tries to hit it with a bat. Then, the player who hit the ball tries to run around the bases, and the players on the other team try to catch the ball and throw it to the player on the base, to get him “out.” There are nine innings in a baseball game, and the team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.

The Longest Game

In the longest game in professional baseball history, the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings played a record-setting 33 innings over the course of three nights in 1981. The game began on April 18th and ended on the early morning of June 23rd, a span of 72 days.

The game was suspended at 4:07 am after 32 innings had been played, with the score tied at 2–2. It was resumed on June 23rd, with both teams scoring a run in the top of the 33rd inning to make the final score 3–3.

The game set several records, including:
-Most innings played: 33
-Longest time between innings: 18 days (between innings 32 and 33)
-Longest game by time: 8 hours and 25 minutes
-Most players used: both teams used 41 players
-Most pitchers used: 14 by Pawtucket, 13 by Rochester

8 innings

In the top of the 8th inning, the game was tied at 2. Brandon Belt hit a leadoff double, and then Buster Posey was intentionally walked. With runners on first and second and nobody out, third baseman Pablo Sandoval hit a ground ball to shortstop, who threw to second for the force out. The runner from first, Belt, advanced to third on the play. Then, with runners on first and third and one out, left fielder Michael Morse hit a sacrifice fly to right field, scoring the go-ahead run from third. The Giants went on to win the game 3-2.

9 innings

In baseball, an inning is a unit of play in which both teams have a turn batting and fielding. The ninth inning is the final inning of a game, and often the most exciting one, as the outcome of the game often hinges on what happens in this inning.

The ninth inning also tends to be when the starting pitcher is taken out of the game, and so it is often when the relief pitchers come in to try to finish the game. These pitchers are usually called upon to try to get crucial outs, and sometimes they succeed and sometimes they don’t.

One of the most famous moments in baseball history happened in the ninth inning of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series. With the score tied at 9-9, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Bill Mazeroski hit a walk-off home run to win the game for his team. It was one of the most dramatic endings to a World Series game ever.

There have been other moments that have been just as dramatic, though perhaps not as well-known. In 1964, Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Yastrzemski hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to win Game 6 of the World Series for his team. This was an important moment not just because it was a walk-off home run, but also because it prevented the Red Sox from blowing a 3-1 lead in the series (they would go on to lose Game 7).

In 2001, New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera famously gave up a walk-off home run to Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Luis Gonzalez in Game 7 of the World Series. This was a heart-breaking moment for Yankees fans, but it was also an iconic moment in baseball history.

There have been many other great moments that have happened in baseball’s ninth inning, and it is always exciting to see what will happen next.

10 innings

The record for the longest baseball game by innings is 10, which happened on May 8, 1984, between the Chicago White Sox and Milwaukee Brewers. The game was suspended after 17 innings with the score 3-3, and was resumed on August 8. The White Sox won 7-6 in the bottom of the 25th inning.

The Second Longest Game

Second on the list is a game that went a whopping 32 innings, lasting 8 hours and 25 minutes. It was a minor league game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings, two Triple-A affiliate teams for the Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins respectively. The game started on April 18th, 1981 and wasn’t completed until June 23rd, almost two months later. It was suspended after 17 innings due to rain delay, and then picked up again on June 23rd to be completed.

The game was scoreless until the bottom of the 21st inning when Pawtucket’s Dave Stapleton hit a walk-off home run to win the game for his team. In total, there were 33 players used in the game with over 500 pitches thrown.

The Shortest Game

The baseball world record for the shortest game took place on September 28, 1918, between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds. The game lasted a mere 51 minutes, and was won by the Dodgers with a score of 2-1.

2 innings

In baseball, an inning is the basic unit of play, consisting of two halves or “frames”. In each frame, one player on the batting team attempts to hit the ball into play while the player on the fielding team tries to prevent this from happening. An inning is complete once three outs have been recorded against the batting team. The half-inning ends when either three outs have been recorded or when the batting team scores enough runs to be ahead by a margin of at least seven runs when their turn in the field ends.

3 innings

In baseball, an inning is the basic unit of play, meaning it is the turn of both teams to bat and field. A regulation game consists of nine innings, as does most high school and professional play. Hardware stores sells innings, a three-inning Regulation IV game being standard. In pool, an inning is one pool player’s uninterrupted turn at the table.

In baseball statistics, an inning pitched (IP) is credited to a pitcher each time he completes one-third of an inning pitched, meaning he retires three batters without giving up any hits or walks or hitting any batters with pitches. A pitcher who throws all of a game’s innings is said to have pitched a complete game (CG).

4 innings

In baseball, an inning is the basic unit of play, Baseball is played between two teams, each composed of nine players, who take turns batting and fielding. The game progresses when one team scores more runs than the other during their respective turn at batting. One run is scored when a player on the batting team advances all the way around the bases and returns back to home plate. The player must touch first base, second base, third base, and home plate in order for a run to score. If the bases are loaded (that is, there are already three players on base) and the batter hits a grand slam (a home run that scores four runs), then he scores all four runners that were on base at the time of his hit.

The baseball world record for most runs batted in during an inning is held by Jim Bottomley of the St. Louis Cardinals, who batted in 12 runs in the bottom of the 8th inning against the Brooklyn Dodgers on September 16, 1924.

Conclusion

In conclusion, A Way Out: The Baseball World Record is a very informative book that provides a great deal of information about the game of baseball. It is well written and easy to follow. However, some readers may find the author’s style to be a bit too dry and formal.