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Old Thu Mar 08, 2007, 01:13pm
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What is the longest game you have ever worked? Time and/or innings!

I had a very long one on Sat. The two teams used a combined 11 pitchers in an extra inning time fest. I'll share the game time soon, I just want to see what others have had to endure.
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Old Thu Mar 08, 2007, 01:15pm
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I had a barn burner that had two rain delays and final score was 24-21. 7 innings took us 4 hours 11 mins.
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Old Thu Mar 08, 2007, 03:27pm
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14 innings (7 inning game), 5+ hours. It was a state final game, 4 man crew, I was U3. This was a double elimination game, and I was slated to do the dish in the "if needed" game. Well, the 'if needed' game was needed. SO tack on another 2 hours and 7 innings to an already rather LONG day!!!!
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Old Thu Mar 08, 2007, 04:10pm
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1 hour 45 minutes. of course I dont work high school. That is the maximum I will everwork a game because at 1:45 I have been told to shut the game down.
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Old Thu Mar 08, 2007, 04:55pm
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1 hour 45 minutes. of course I dont work high school. That is the maximum I will everwork a game because at 1:45 I have been told to shut the game down.
So .. you'll never work a tourney or playoff game?

My worst (although not the longest) was the first game of the morning, 1:15 time limit game that went 2:40 - even with ITB, no one could score. I can't even guess how many innings it went --- 17 or 18 I would guess. 1-0 game. Got far behind on my field, but also on other fields because of it. The trickle down had us adding some 7-8 games to Sunday.

Longest was just over 4 hours - typical 7-inning no-pitch walkathon high school game with no time limit.
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I worked a 14-inning plate last year (or maybe 2005) that finished in 4:15. Adult 9-inning wood bat game.

I got hit hard on the plate shoe in the fourth inning and it hurt the rest of the game. Game ended on a walkoff 3-run HR in the bottom of the 14th.
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Yep.

No time limit. Thank God we have no lights.
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Old Thu Mar 08, 2007, 05:14pm
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I have had a few very long extra-inning affairs which thankfully I have managed to put into the "forgetting" area of the brain.

My longest regulation 7 inning varsity game was 4 hrs. and 35 minutes, in which neither team's pitching could get anybody out. Just brutal.
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A single game, 12 innnings, 3:45. But I worked a DH by myself last year because partner did not show up, so it was 14 innings, 5 hours for the two.
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Old Thu Mar 08, 2007, 06:10pm
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Nightcap game of a doubleheader (different teams than in game one). The game had trudged along with both teams scoring in the double digits until the visitors finally took a 10-run lead in the top of the 6th. With two outs and R1 in the bottom of the inning, it looked like the mercy rule was going to get us off the field in just under 3 hours. However, a cocky F2 decided to try to pick R1 off. The ball rolled all the way to the wall with R1 coming all the way around to score and take us out of “mercy” status. In the top of the 7th, the visitors tacked on about a dozen more runs, the home team scored a bunch in the bottom of the inning, and the game didn’t end until nearly the 4 hour mark.
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Old Thu Mar 08, 2007, 06:22pm
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1 hour 45 minutes. of course I dont work high school. That is the maximum I will everwork a game because at 1:45 I have been told to shut the game down.
1:45??? I wouldn't have even bothered to post that.

As best I can remember my longest game was just under 4 hours (no rain delay, extra innings) of boring Adult League baseball. My longest HS game was 3:20 (due to rain delay) for 7-innings -- last season.
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Old Thu Mar 08, 2007, 08:49pm
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13 innings on the plate -- a touch over 4 hours.

luckily it was a nice sunny day with a decent breeze, towards the end of september i believe. students gave up after 2 hours or so since i dont think anyone saw the last half of the game, which was unusual.
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Oh, I forgot a regular 7 inning 5.5 hour tournament game that included a rain delay, and a change from one soggy field to another one 10 miles away. Of course, most of the time was the delay and change of venue. The game itself probably lasted 2:30 or so.
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Old Thu Mar 08, 2007, 09:36pm
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Last summer 2 guys from our organization did a game in the LL District whatever girls' softball. There was a 10-run rule, but no time limit. Game began at 6 p.m. and ended at 10:10 p.m. (No extra innings, no delays for rain or injury.)

Long game, but they each hauled away 25 smackers for their efforts.

Final was 26-24. I understand there were some bases on balls.
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Old Thu Mar 08, 2007, 09:43pm
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longest game was probably only 2:50 with the final being 17-14.

Longest day, however, was when i was scheduled to work 2 games in a tourney (first 2 of the day) and the umpires didn't show up for the other 3, so that was 5 games that ran from probably 11am to 8pm.
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