The Colorado Rockies and San Diego Padres pretty much played a triple-header yesterday. Except right in a row. Holy pitcher's duel! ...or poor performances at the plate.
The Rockies emerged victorious 6 hours and 16 minutes later by a score of 2-1, thanks to Troy Tulowitzki’s two-out RBI double that brought Willy Taveras around with an unearned run in an empty Petco Park. There were only 25,000 people there in the first place, and like, 3 annihilated, passed out people remaining in the upper deck by 1:21am, when the contest finally ended.
There were 659 pitches thrown by 15 different pitchers, and a seventh-inning stretch, a 14-inning break and a 21st-inning nap.
Yorvit Torrealba, who caught all 22 innings, can't extend his legs today, so they're actually wheeling him around the clubhouse in a red wagon. San Diego’s Josh Bard, who also squatted for all 22 innings, was super pissed.
"You give up two runs in 22 innings and you should win," he said.Not only was it the longest game in Rockies history, it was the longest since August 31, 1993, when the Minnesota Twins beat the Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 22 innings.
[The Daily Pitch]
5 comments:
1993? That game must have bene horrible.
And here I am, thinking that the fourteen inning 3-2 Mets-Nats game last night was epic...'twas mere a sidenote to this epic dirge of a baseball game. Lol at the post title
I'm sure you're all about the stamina...six hours and 16 minutes...now that's gettin' it done :-)
Amen to that title, but I'lll be damned if I sit around for 3 baseball games in a row. They stop serving beer in the seventh inning at the dome!!
I knew the Rockies and Padres were boring but...zzzzzzzz.....
Post a Comment