Longest baseball game ever? The inside scoop on what happened at McCoy
Eleven pitchers. Fifty-nine strikeouts. Thirty-three innings.
We look back at the longest baseball game in history, which was played at McCoy Stadium.
PAWTUCKET — Did you know the longest game in professional baseball took place right here in Rhode Island? With McCoy Stadium long gone , we at The Providence Journal are trying to help keep the memories of the PawSox, and the beloved stadium, alive. On the evening of April 18, 1981 — 45 years ago — the Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings began what would be the longest game in the history of professional baseball.
The game had been delayed by some faulty light towers and the first pitch wasn't tossed until 8:02 p. m. Shortly after 4 the next morning, Easter Sunday, the game was suspended after 32 innings.
When play resumed on June 23, Pawtucket won, 3-2, after one more inning of play — making for a 33-inning total, which remains the record today. At the time, one newspaper called Pawtucket “Everybody’s Mudville. ” 33 innings.
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