Rockies and Padres go 22 innings

Jayman · 04-18-2008, 03:27 PM

From Bernie Wilson, AP

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April 17) - Let's play 2 1/2! Colorado and San Diego did just that Thursday night and into Friday morning, slogging through a 22-inning game that was the longest in the majors in nearly 15 years.
The Rockies finally won 2-1, with Troy Tulowitzki's two-out RBI double bringing in Willy Taveras with an unearned run in nearly empty Petco Park. A game that lasted 6 hours, 16 minutes was decided by an unearned run.

Reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Jake Peavy threw the game's first pitch at 7:05 p.m. The game didn't end until 1:21 a.m., when Padres pitcher Glendon Rusch took a called third strike. Colorado's Yorvit Torrealba, who caught all 22 innings, wearily pumped a fist in celebration.

"It's tough to keep your head into it and put together good at-bats and be into every pitch," Tulowitzki said. "We were talking about how our legs were hurting out there. It's tough to stand on your feet for 22 innings and keep moving."

Manager Clint Hurdle noticed that his players were a little tight.

"This was a good game to get outside yourself," Hurdle said. "About the 16th inning, I said, 'Hey boys, no matter what's in front of us, there's a world of people out there who've got harder rows to hoe than we do. No matter what happens the rest of the night, have some fun with this thing.'"

His players listened. It just took them six more innings to score a run.

"It's definitely better to win in a 22-inning game than lose, I'll tell you that," Tulowitzki said.

It was the longest game since Aug. 31, 1993, when Minnesota beat Cleveland 5-4 in 22 innings. It was also the longest game in Rockies history and in the 5-year history of Petco Park. It was the longest by innings for the Padres, and one minute short of matching the longest by time for San Diego.

There's something about these two teams and extra innings. On Oct 1., Colorado rallied past the Padres for a 9-8 win in 13 innings in the wild-card tiebreaker game.

There was a little bit of everything, but far too little offense on Thursday. There were planes to catch - The Rockies open a series Friday in Houston and the Padres will be at Arizona - but the game was scoreless until the 14th inning. Wouldn't you know it, each team scored a run that inning to prolong it.

In the 22nd, Taveras reached on a two-out grounder when shortstop Khalil Greene's throw pulled 6-foot-7 first baseman Tony Clark off the bag. Taveras stole second and took third on catcher Josh Bard's throwing error. Tulowitzki doubled to left-center of Glendon Rusch (0-1), the seventh Padres pitcher. Taveras set a club record with 10 at-bats.

Only a fraction of the crowd of 25,984 was around to see the final out.

Some Padres players amused themselves in the 18th by taping up the head of a stuffed ram and placing it on the front bench in the dugout. After the 18th, shortly after midnight, the sprinklers came on in the Park at the Park, a grassy knoll beyond the bleachers in right-center.

There was a seventh-inning stretch, a 14-inning stretch and finally, a 21st-inning stretch.

Greg Maddux had his glove on in the dugout in ton - San Diego's last position player - grounded to third in his fourth big league at-bat. It was Corpas' second blown save in five chances.

The Padres blew a big chance in the 13th. Paul McAnulty led off with a line drive into the right-field corner but was thrown out trying to stretch a double into a triple. Left-hander Randy Wolf, who beat the Rockies 6-0 on Tuesday night, followed with a pinch-hit single to center field but was stranded.

Three Rockies pitchers retired 23 straight Padres batters from the second to the 10th inning.

Wow...quite impressive. I'm surpised as many starters stayed in throughout the game.

Do you think that the MLB should have inning or time limit restrictions put on their games?

And secondly, would you stay for a 22-inning game?

Personally...I like the fact that their aren't ties in baseball. Even if they go 15+ innings, it rarely happens and it's nail-biting to watch. Although, unless it was a game that was for a lot (playoffs, or playoff implications) I probably would leave a game after 15 innings or so.

Randy Orton · 04-18-2008, 03:33 PM

near the end it would suck if you were drunk cuz you would be coming down from your buzz and feel like shit

Necro · 04-18-2008, 03:41 PM

true especially since you cant drink past the 7th inning...

Dr. Giganto · 04-18-2008, 05:13 PM

I once stayed for a 15 or 16 inning game, and saw the Yankees lose. That sucked

Blitzkrieg · 04-18-2008, 11:07 PM

No, I saw Skip Bayless, the idiot say MLB should have restrictions.. It shouldn't. I don't want gimmicky bullshit.

Suntan Superman · 04-20-2008, 07:16 AM

Totally love Extra Innings games. It's more baseball for half the price >_>

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