World Record Baseball Game: 9 Days Away From First Pitch, 11 Days From Last

If you keep up with our blog, as you should, you’d have already learned that Dirxion is one of the lead sponsors of the World Record Baseball Game (website here).  After publishing my last article on this topic, I realized that even if my last post was slightly informative at best, there is still no way it gave enough credit to how absolutely wacky-screw-loose-mad-as-a-hatter-insane playing baseball for 48 hours straight is. A guy with a thesaurus website open on his computer couldn’t find a single word to fully describe this sort of milestone. He’d have to come up with a combination of synonyms for the word “crazy” and just attach them all with hyphens to illustrate his point.

Numbers can do the talking though…
Numbers in terms of innings:
9: The normal number of innings played in a Major League Baseball game.

26: The longest game in number of innings completed in MLB history. The game was played May 1, 1920 between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves. The game ended tied at 1 due to darkness.

92: The number of innings played in the 2007 World Record Baseball Game. Almost four times the Major League record.

In terms of time:
2 hours 54 minutes: The average length of a Major League Baseball game.

8 hours 6 minutes: The longest game, time wise, in MLB history. It was played May 8, 1984 between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago White Sox. The game went 25 innings. It started at 7:30 PM and ended at 1:00 AM due to curfew. The game was tied at 3 after 17 innings. Then the next afternoon the game resumed and went another 8 innings before Chicago finally won 7-6.

32 hours 28 minutes: The length in time the 2007 World Record Baseball Game was played without stopping once, about 4 times as long as the longest MLB game.

48 hours: The amount of time they are trying to play for this year, 6 times the length of the MLB record, and like watching 16 normal games in a row without pausing.

The box score numbers from last year …

Team                      Runs     Hits    Errors
St. Louis Browns     119    144    27
St. Louis Stars         81    103    43

When teams are chalking up digits like that, it means that in a single game you can see more offense than the Cincinnati Reds put up all year, yet still less errors than a Washington Nationals’ home game.

9, 10, 11: The days of October in which the 2009 World Record Baseball game will be played on.

First pitch is October 9th but the game will no doubt be played the 9th, 10th and 11th.  If you are in the St. Louis area, you should try and make it for part of the game. This event is not only happening to break a Guinness World Record, but also to help an admirable cause. All proceeds are going to Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center. For more details on how to get free tickets and find out about the events going on around the TR Hughes Ball Park that weekend visit the World Record Baseball Game Website.