Let’s play 22
by Geep on Friday, April 18th, 2008 at 12:05pm
In a game that probably would have even made Ernie Banks tired, the Rockies beat the Padres 2-1 in 22 innings. It wasn’t a game it was a relationship.
6 hours, 16 minutes, 15 pitchers, 658 pitches, 3 runs.
Reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Jake Peavy threw the game’s first pitch at 7:05 p.m. The game didn’t end until 1:21 a.m., when Padres pitcher Glendon Rusch took a called third strike. Colorado’s Yorvit Torrealba, who caught all 22 innings, wearily pumped a fist in celebration.