What is the longest game in MLB history?
According to the July 31, 2006 issue of Sports Illustrated, the longest game was a 26-inning tie between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves in 1920. That’s MLB. The longest game in pro baseball took place in 1981. It was a Triple A game that lasted 33 innings. davo – a 26 inning game on July 27th between the Brooklyn Cyclones and the Oneonta Tigers began at 12:03 and ended at 6:43 when the Tigers scored 5 runs in the 26th. In the 20th, one of the Brooklyn outfielders joked that he was available to pitch and his manager took him up on it a few innings later. That game was over six-and-a-half hours, so yea, I bet the 33 inning was at least 5 hours long. (For anyone unfamiliar with baseball, innings are determined by outs, not time, so a 33-inning game could, theoretically, take less time than one with 26 innings. Just a guess, though – it’s out of my league, so to speak.
