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Originally Posted by jimpiano
Ed Sudol was the home-plate umpire on May 31, 1964, the first extra innings game ever at Shea Stadium. It came in the second game of a twin bill with San Francisco and lasted 23 innings. He also worked the plate in the 25-inning game the Mets and Cardinals played on Sept. 11, 1974, at Shea, which is the longest game by time, and the 24-inning game the Mets and Astros played at the Astrodome on April 15, 1968, which was the longest extra innings game with out a score, 22 innings.
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Welll......that Mets/Giants doubleheader is:
1)the longest doubleheader by time in MLB history
2) Game two is the second longest game time-wise in MLB history - second only to the White Sox/Brewers debacle in 1986 (Jim Evans behind the plate, btw)- but THAT game was suspended and continued later, so that Met game is the game played the longest
uninterrupted.
3) And is tied with the 86 game as the longest game, by innings,
played to a conclusion - the 1920 Brooklyn/Boston Braves 26 inning 1-1 tie is the longest game (26 innings)...but nobody won!
Game 1 was around 2:25 or so, while Game 2 was an excruciating 7:23 -without stopping
I have a friend who was working at Shea that year selling beer, and he said that by the 14th inning, all the vendors and stands had run out of EVERYthing, and that all the Harry M Stevens workers ended up sleeping in the upper deck by games end. The doubleheader started with about 50,000 people there to start...about 500 were there at the end....
Ed Kranepool had been with the Mets AAA club in Buffalo the day before, and played both games of a doubleheader. Right after the game, he was informed the Mets had called him back up - so Kranepool drove overnight directly to Shea, took about a 2 hour nap, and proceeded to play EVERY inning of BOTH games!
Willie Mays was actually moved to SS for a few innings around the 13th or 14th inning....
The Mets/Astros game is still the longest shutout by innings, and the Cards/Mets game is tied with that Sox/Brewers game as the longest night game by innings in history...although, again, they played that Met game uninterrupted also!
You don't think Sudol had a BIG zone, do you?
www.retrosheet.org has the box scores of all these games -poor Ron Swoboda went
0/10 in the 1968 game - that would take a month to make up!
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_gmlg.shtml