Longest and Latest Ending Games in Japan and Elsewhere
Here's the top 10 (plus the longest Pacific League game which ranked #20):
Teams Date Time Inn Comment
1 Yakult-Hanshin 1992.09.11 6:26 15 CL Record (37 minute delay)
2 Yakult-Yokohama 1996.09.08 6:19 14
3 Yokohama-Hiroshima 1998.08.09 6:13 15
4 Chunichi-Hanshin 2000.05.24 6:02 15
5 Yakult-Hiroshima 1992.10.01 6:01 13
6 Chunichi-Taiyo 1990.08.04 5:51 15
7 Hiroshima-Yakult 1993.05.19 5:46 14
7 Yakult-Chunichi 1998.04.10 5:46 13
9 Hanshin-Hiroshima 1994.09.06 5:45 15
10 Hiroshima-Chunichi 1994.08.25 5:43 15
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20 Orix-Seibu 2000.08.29 5:32 12 PL Record
The longest 9 innings games for each league were:
47 Taiyo-Hanshin 1990.05.06 5:10 9 CL Record
Daiei-Nippon Ham 1998.06.28 4:46 9 PL Regular Season
Nippon Ham-Lotte 1981.10.10 5:17 9 PL Play-off
As your top game was done in less than four hours, it isn't listed. I don't have a resource for most innings. Sorry.
- July 17, 1918 Cubs-Phils longest errorless game, twenty-one innings
- May 1, 1920 Dodgers-Braves had twenty-six inning 1-1 tie
- June 12, 1967 Senators-ChiSox six hours thirty-eight minutes and twenty-two innings
- September 1, 1967 Giants-Reds longest shutout, twenty innings
- May 9, 1984 ChiSox beat Brewers in eight hours six minutes
- July 4, 1985 Mets-Braves was six hours ten minutes and ended at 3:55 AM!
- June 3, 1989 Dodgers game seven hours fourteen minutes and twenty-two innings
- June 23, 1981 minor league game that had Ripken and Boggs that finished after thirty-three innings
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- 28 innings Korakuen Kyujyo (Stadium), Tokyo, Japan on May 24, 1942 Japanese Professional Baseball Federation, Taiyo 4 Nagoya 4 in 3 hours 47 minutes, called a tie.
- 6 hours 26 minutes Koshien Kyujyo (Stadium), Osaka, Japan on September 11, 1992 - Central League, Yakult Swallows 3 Hanshin Tigers 3 in 15 innings, rhubarb (argument)delay 0:37, finished at 12:26 AM in the early morning of September 12.
- 6 hours 1 minute Hiroshima Kyujyo (Stadium), Hiroshima, Japan on October 1, 1992 Central League, Hiroshima Carp 8 Yakult Swallows 7 in 13 innings, given that this is in October, is this a Japanese World Series game or a Central League game?
Do you know of any others?Thank you very much for your help.
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