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It's a rare baseball game that ends on a different day than it started — and only one postseason matchup in MLB history has lasted twice as long as a regulation game
That would be Saturday night-Sunday morning's epic game 2 between the Washington Nationals and the San Francisco Giants, which stretched to 18 innings before the Giants' Brandon Belt delivered a crucial solo home run
The 6 hour, 24-minute matchup tested the patience of fans in the stadium — many of whom left as many as 9 innings before the end — as well as testing the limits of many DVR devices.
On Twitter, where #SFvsWAS, #NatsvGiants and #18innings became three of the top trending hashtags in the U.S., viewers offered increasingly outrageous estimations of how long the game had lasted. Read more...
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