What's the longest baseball game ever played?

Number one on the list is a 1920 matchup between the Boston Braves and the Brooklyn Robins. The longest game in MLB history was a 26 inning marathon between the Brooklyn Robins and Boston Braves in 1920.
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What was the longest MLB baseball game ever?

1. Brooklyn Robins 1, Boston Braves 1 on May 1, 1920 – 26 innings. It shouldn't come as a surprise that the longest MLB game ever happened decades ago. The record goes all the way back to May 1, 1920, a meeting between the Brooklyn Robins and Boston Braves.
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What's the longest a baseball game has gone?

This is the longest game in MLB history in terms of time. It took eight hours and six minutes -- and it had to be completed over two days. The game began on May 8. With 14,754 fans in attendance at Comiskey Park, the two teams played 17 innings before the game was suspended at 1 a.m. with the score tied, 3-3.
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What is the most innings played in a MLB game?

Major League Baseball. The longest game by innings in Major League Baseball was a 1–1 tie in the National League between the Boston Braves and the Brooklyn Robins in 26 innings, at Braves Field in Boston on May 1, 1920.
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What baseball teams played 18 innings?

The 18-inning affair between the Astros and Mariners on Saturday was tied for the longest postseason game in MLB history.
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Can there be a 10th inning in baseball?

Major League Baseball is making it permanent: In all regular-season extra-inning games, a runner will be placed on second base to begin the 10th inning, and in every subsequent extra inning after that, until a winner is determined, according to a source familiar with the situation.
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Why is baseball restricted 42?

In 1997, Major League Baseball honored Jackie Robinson by making his No. 42 the first uniform number to be retired across the sport.
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What is the fastest MLB game ever?

According to the all-knowing Google, the 1910 matchup between the Atlanta Crackers and Mobile Sea Gulls is the first choice that pops up when you search fastest baseball game ever. It was 32 minutes long.
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Has there ever been a 27 pitch game?

No, there has never been a 27-strikeout baseball game. The all-time record for strikeouts in a 9-inning game is 20.
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Has there ever been a perfect innings game?

Though two perfect-game bids have gone into extra innings, no extra-inning game has ever been completed to perfection.
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Has any MLB team lost 100 games?

Here's a glance at who leads the list of most 100-loss seasons since 1961: Washington Senators/Texas Rangers (7): 1961 (61-100); 1962 (60-101); 1963 (56-106); 1964 (62-100); 1972 (54-100); 1973 (57-105); and 2021 (60-102).
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Has anyone ever gone 7 for 7 in an MLB game?

Prior to Stennett, 43 players in modern baseball history had recorded a 6-for-6 game, including Hall of Famers Ty Cobb and Paul Waner. However no batter in the modern era had been able to go 7-for-7 in a nine-inning game.
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What is the max number of innings in baseball?

Since there are no ties in baseball, there is no limit to the number of extra innings that can be played. They continue until a team can be declared the winner.
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Can an MLB game go on forever?

Baseball is sometimes called the "timeless game." Unlike football, basketball or soccer, there's no clock. Theoretically, the game could go on forever.
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How long were baseball games in 1960?

The median length of a major-league baseball game in 1960 was 2 hours 34 minutes.
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Has any MLB team won 120 games?

763 vs. . 716), but 116 wins is the all-time record. No team has ever won more, and only six teams have ever won as many as 110 games in a season. The 56-20 record puts the Yankees on pace to win 119 games.
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What is a 3 pitch inning called?

One such rarity is the immaculate inning. You've probably heard of it -- an immaculate inning is when a pitcher strikes out all three batters in an inning, on three pitches each. The immaculate inning used to be very rare -- there were none from 1929-52.
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What is the rarest pitch in baseball?

Definition. A screwball is a breaking ball designed to move in the opposite direction of just about every other breaking pitch. It is one of the rarest pitches thrown in baseball, mostly because of the tax it can put on a pitcher's arm.
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What is the rarest thing in baseball?

Rarest of all is the unassisted triple play by an outfielder, performed only once in professional baseball history, by Walter Carlisle. It is possible for a team to score on a triple play, but that is also phenomenally rare.
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At what speed is it impossible to hit a baseball?

We then find BBS=140 mph. I think we can take this as an extreme upper limit on how hard a baseball can be hit by an MLB batter.
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How fast is the slowest MLB pitch?

The last Stubbs eephus registered 36.9 mph and his next pitch was an 83.8 mph fastball which earned a strikeout against the unready Jansen.
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What is the fastest pitch thrown?

Fastest pitch ever thrown

As a result, Aroldis Chapman is credited with throwing the fastest pitch in MLB history. On Sept. 24, 2010, Chapman made MLB history. Then a rookie relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, the fireballer unleashed a fastball clocked at 105.1 mph by PITCH/fx.
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Can you wear 69 in the MLB?

69: Bronson Arroyo, 2000-02 Pittsburgh Pirates: Somewhat surprisingly, only six players in Major League history have worn no. 69 (#nice), most recently A.J. Cole for the 2015 Washington Nationals.
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Is the number 0 allowed in MLB?

In Major League Baseball, players are allowed to wear zero as their uniform number (yes, it's a number. Also, it's even). It's rare, but it happens. Currently, there is one player in baseball who wears zero, and that's Adam Ottavino, pitcher for the Colorado Rockies.
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Does MLB have a curfew?

Rules. Within the Official Baseball Rules of Major League Baseball (MLB), Rule 7.02—"Suspended, Postponed, and Tie Games"—details the circumstances under which a game may be suspended. In general, a game becomes suspended when it is halted by: A curfew imposed by law.
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