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  2. Longest professional baseball game - Wikipedia

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    Ripken made his major league debut two months after the game was completed, and was the American League's Rookie of the Year in 1982. Wade Boggs , who was inducted in 2005, played third base for Pawtucket and went 4-for-12 with a double and an RBI ; he would make it to the majors starting in April 1982.

  3. List of Major League Baseball longest winning streaks

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    The longest winning streak consisting only of playoff games stands at 12 consecutive wins, by the 1927, 1928 and 1932 New York Yankees (who swept the World Series all three seasons) and tied by the 1998–99 Yankees. According to Major League Baseball's policy on winning streaks, tie games do not end a team's winning streak. [1]

  4. Extra innings - Wikipedia

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    This was the second time in Major League history that two games of 18 innings or more were played on same day; [19] the first was August 15, 2006. [20] In the 2013 season, the Arizona Diamondbacks set a major league record by playing 78 extra innings. [21] [22] This broke the season record of 76 extra innings played by the Minnesota Twins in 1969.

  5. Baseball’s Longest Game, 100 Years Ago Today - AOL

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    Saturday, May 1, 1920 began like any other day in baseball in its era, with a modest crowd of 4,500 people gathered at Braves Field in Boston to watch the hometown Braves face off against the ...

  6. Brooklyn Dodgers 1, Boston Braves 1 (26 innings) - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of the game from The Boston Globe. On Saturday, May 1, 1920, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves played to a 1–1 tie in 26 innings, the most innings ever played in a single game in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB). The game was played at Braves Field in Boston before a crowd estimated at 4,000.

  7. Hitting streak - Wikipedia

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    There have been 55 occurrences in Major League Baseball where a player had a hitting streak of at least 30 games. [5] Multiple streaks in the same season have occurred in 1922 (George Sisler and Rogers Hornsby), 1987 (Paul Molitor and Benito Santiago), 1997 (Nomar Garciaparra and Sandy Alomar Jr.), 1999 (Vladimir Guerrero and Luis Gonzalez), 2006 (Chase Utley and Willy Taveras), and 2011 ...

  8. Rick Camp Game - Wikipedia

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    This was the second latest [31] [32] [33] any major league game has ever ended. Eight years later, the record was topped by a doubleheader between the San Diego Padres and the Philadelphia Phillies in July 1993, which saw the second game (July 3) end at 4:40 a.m.

  9. List of Major League Baseball career games played leaders

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    A starting pitcher, then, may be credited with a game played even as he is not credited with a game started or an inning pitched. Ty Cobb was the first player to reach 3,000 games played. Cobb's record of 3,035 games played lasted for 46 seasons until Hank Aaron would break the record.