THE LONGEST GAME

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4.5 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Baseball holds its records sacred. Most home runs, strikeouts, career wins. But what about the longest game ever? That honor goes to a 1981 AAA game, when the Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings slugged it out from dusk to dawn. The record-breaking 33 innings brought hope, despair and drama on and off the field. Radio Diaries and 30 for 30 Podcasts take listeners to that frigid, surreal night with the voices who lived it – including Hall of Famers Wade Boggs and Cal Ripken Jr. Most heroes of The Longest Game never made it big, but their unflagging endurance made history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Holy cow, what a ball game. We appear tonight in Pawtucket.
0:06.0	Three o'clock in the morning in the freezing cold and he's still playing baseball in the month of April,
0:11.0	and you're wondering, what the hell are we doing here.
0:13.8	We have a chance here tonight in little old Patuck at Rhode Island to get in the history books.
0:19.3	It was just the battle.
0:20.4	It was just the battle for the last run. This is unbelievable.
0:24.0	Here we go.
0:28.0	Welcome to 30 for 30.
0:30.0	I'm Nellie Gillis.
0:31.0	When we think of historic moments in baseball I'm Nelly Gillis.
0:32.8	When we think of historic moments in baseball,
0:35.4	there's a long list.
0:37.0	There's Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's home run record,
0:40.7	or Nolan Ryan getting 5,714 strike-outs.
0:45.0	Or Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak.
0:49.0	These all happened on the big stage,
0:52.0	in Major League Ballparks, packed with fans, and millions more watching or listening from home.
0:57.0	But the world isn't always watching when records are broken.
1:08.8	In April of 1981, history was made during a minor league game in an old stadium in Patucket, Rhode Island. This is AAA Baseball, one step below the major leagues. On the
1:16.2	field are some future Hall of Famer, Wade Boggs, and Calrifkin Jr. and some names
1:21.3	you've probably never heard of.
1:23.0	30 for 30 podcasts brings you the longest game,
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