A Smile From the Baseball Gods...

[SanDiegoSteve]

1:12 HS Varsity - 7 innings.

1:57 NABA - 9 innings.

[DG]

Fastest for 7 inning game on the big field = 1:10

I have had several 3:30 minute games in my time. I think that is the longest I can recall. The most recent ones were 10 inning games that were supposed to be 7.

I had a college wood bat game last summer that went 10 innings in 2:10. Score was 2-2 from the 5th until top of 10th.

[mrm21711]

Originally Posted by DG

Fastest for 7 inning game on the big field = 1:10

I have had several 3:30 minute games in my time. I think that is the longest I can recall. The most recent ones were 10 inning games that were supposed to be 7.

I had a college wood bat game last summer that went 10 innings in 2:10. Score was 2-2 from the 5th until top of 10th.

7 Innings, 18 Under: 1:07. This past June, actually.

[Rich]

A Sr. LL game recently -- 1 hour flat.

Adult baseball 9 innings, 1:28.

Last season I had a game go 4:14 -- it ended on a walkoff HR in the bottom of the 14th inning.

[Dave Hensley]

Originally Posted by Rich Fronheiser

A Sr. LL game recently -- 1 hour flat.

Adult baseball 9 innings, 1:28.

Last season I had a game go 4:14 -- it ended on a walkoff HR in the bottom of the 14th inning.

Is the adult game the one you and I worked in Phoenix? I was thinking that one we had was that fast or faster, but I don't remember the exact time.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Dave Hensley

Is the adult game the one you and I worked in Phoenix? I was thinking that one we had was that fast or faster, but I don't remember the exact time.

No, it was one I had in Madison -- I had forgotten the one in Phoenix, but we did have a quickie there.

We had a 7-inning game (adult, wood bat) last season here go something like 1:05. Lots of first pitch groundouts and 2 3-pitch innings.

[briancurtin]

Originally Posted by DG

I had a college wood bat game last summer that went 10 innings in 2:10. Score was 2-2 from the 5th until top of 10th.

i had a college wood bat DH start at 12:00 and i was in the door of my house at 3:58, and i live 35 minutes away.

4 hours total
-35 mintues to get home
-10 minutes of BSing after game
-20 minutes between games
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2:55 worth of baseball on the field, putting the back to back games around the 1:30 mark each.

[Lawrence.Dorsey]

Over the last two years I have had at least one Jr. American Legion game go at 1:30 or under (7 innings). I had one two years ago that went 1:20.


Lawrence

[tiger49]

Fastest 7 inning game was an hour and five minutes. Fastest 9 inning one hour and 36 minutes. Fastest double header with a 20-minute break, three and a half hours. Longest game five hours and 45 minutes (17 innings).

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by briancurtin

i had a college wood bat DH start at 12:00 and i was in the door of my house at 3:58, and i live 35 minutes away.

4 hours total
-35 mintues to get home
-10 minutes of BSing after game
-20 minutes between games
-------------
2:55 worth of baseball on the field, putting the back to back games around the 1:30 mark each.

Your DH even beat my longest 7 inning plate game ever: HS Varsity, 24-11 final (before the FED 10-run rule era began), 4:16. 3:00 PM start, walked off at 7:16 PM. Pitching was non-existent.

[Tim C]

Shortest : 6 1/2 inning high school game 0:42 (Not a misprint 42 minutes).

Longest: College game 17 innings -- 16-15 5:01 (with an additional 32 minute rain delay not counted).

SDS: In my tri-county area we STILL don't have a 10 run rule.

Regards,

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Tim C

SDS: In my tri-county area we STILL don't have a 10 run rule.

We had the 10-run rule for a couple years, but the California Interscholastic Federation removed it because coaches complained that their pitchers and other players weren't getting enough playing time when the games ended early.

[Gaff]

Today MSBL 9 innings 1:47
Last April High School 2 hitter 1:10
Last April High School 7 innings 4:25 (the game from hell)

[UMP25]

Longest: This year, 21 innings in an NJCAA Regional game. Time: 4:31. And yes, I was doing the plate. It was my second game of the day. The next day, in my second game of the day, I had the plate again in a 9-inning game that lasted 3:35! Figure that out. Oh, and the worst thing? The day after that, I had to take the spot of one of our young umpires in an emergency fill-in for THREE Little League games in a row. I don't do L.L. anymore, but got stuck with 18 more innings of plate work. All total, I had 48 innings of plate work in less than 48 hours! Needless to say, my feet had to be euthanized after that, though I DID switch to my comfortable base shoes for the second two LL games.

Quickest 9-inning: Today, 9 full innings (9-inning tournament games) in 1:37. Score = 2-1. Home team WAS winning 1-0 until the 7th, when the visitors scored thanks to an error. We WERE on track for an hour twenty.

Quickest game ever: in 1984, a Little League game, 47 minutes, where the visiting pitcher struck out all 18 batters he faced, 13 of them looking. Moreover, only two balls were ever contacted, one a foul off to the left side, the other a foul off to the right. No one ever touched the ball again on the home team.

[johnnyg08]

Adult amateur baseball 9 innings 1:28 mins...score was 7 - 1...all of the runs were scored in the bottom of the 1st...then the losing team got one garbage run in the 8th...no walks, and players were swinging.

One of my colleagues worked a 28 inning 1 - 0 game 5 hrs 50 minutes...one of the longest games in MN baseball history.