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holy cow in

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the morning the morning freezing cold, and the still

0:09

playing baseball in the the month of april, you

0:11

wondering, what the hell are we here we

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have a a chance here tonight, in

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little pawtucket rhode island to get in

0:18

the history books please

0:19

richest the battle is just the battle

0:21

for the last one

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they have unbelievable here

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we go

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welcome

0:28

to 3435

0:30

nellie gillis

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when we think of historic moments in baseball

0:35

there's a long list

0:36

her hank aaron breaking babe ruth

0:39

home run record or ,

0:41

ryan getting five thousand seven hundred

0:43

and fourteen strikeouts foreign

0:45

joe dimaggio is fifty six game hitting

0:48

streak the

0:50

will happen on the big stage in major

0:52

league ballparks packed with fans and

0:54

millions more watching or listening from home

0:57

but the world isn't always watching when

1:00

records are broken

1:03

in april of nineteen eighty one history

1:05

was made during a minor league game in

1:08

, old stadium in the tuck it rhode island

1:11

island is aaa baseball one

1:13

step below the major the on

1:16

the field or some future hall of famers wade

1:18

boggs and coward in junior and

1:21

some names you've probably never you've of thirty

1:23

for thirty podcasts brings you thirty longest

1:26

game the longest ever played

1:28

in professional baseball this

1:30

story comes from the radio diaries podcast

1:32

and it's told by those who were there as there

1:34

pataki red sox and the rochester red

1:36

wings cement their place in history

1:50

this again as a game have

1:52

absolutely no consequence lived

1:55

through i will be around here

1:57

and mccoy stadium and report back and rhode

1:59

island

2:01

the target rhode island the is a city of about

2:03

seventy thousand working

2:06

class blue collar my

2:08

name is dan barry i'm a long time

2:10

journalist with the new york times and

2:13

i wrote a book about this game tuck

2:15

it was quite proud of it's distinction

2:18

as the triple a base

2:21

for the boston red sox and

2:23

they had this stadium colt mccoy stadium

2:26

it was kind of run down in those days and kind

2:28

of beat up

2:29

that they ran a clean shot they watched

2:32

the drinking they watched the swearing the

2:34

only took the kids there and it

2:36

was one don't you are i

2:38

was the official scorekeeper

2:41

it was an early season saturday

2:43

night there wasn't much we were playing

2:46

for it was just baseball

2:48

as usual my name

2:50

is mike tempura i was the general manager

2:52

of the protected read sex seventeen

2:55

, and forty people were in attendance

2:58

when the game was that done april

3:00

eighteenth the first purchase thrown

3:03

a little after eight o'clock and

3:06

the game begins begins

3:08

library or talk about out on the will fail

3:13

the conditions were terrible the

3:15

when was like a law was

3:17

like a big mods the just slap and bulls

3:19

back at you you'd hit back shot

3:22

that you thought was going out and assured that would

3:24

make was play on and when what they not

3:27

wrong again it was it

3:29

was like that the never the same out

3:31

and up on our paper down here and oppressed by

3:35

imagine what it's like down on that field at

3:37

over to iraq fear

3:42

the players on the field are

3:44

than their early twenties

3:46

the

3:47

look like porn stars and nineteen

3:49

eighties okay they have the mustache

3:52

the longhair they built

3:54

their chisels

3:59

it

3:59

wade boggs i was the starting third

4:02

baseman phone that infamous night

4:04

of nineteen eighty one cal

4:10

ripken i played third base for the rochester

4:12

redwings all , us were in the same

4:14

boat we were all young and we all

4:16

had the same fears the same anxieties

4:18

anxieties we wanted to make it and we wanted to make it make

4:21

for you have cal ripken and wade

4:24

boggs future hall boggs famers

4:27

top of of at first sight

4:30

i think of dave cosa as

4:32

the near perfect for suffocation

4:35

of the minor league baseball player

4:37

my name is dave koza and i was a first

4:40

baseman for the protagoras hawks

4:42

to be a part of of aaa

4:45

ah you know you're you're only one step

4:47

and forty miles from from

4:49

fenway park if you keep

4:51

playing hard maybe you can get to the

4:54

i don't think you did find more

4:57

a team player than davis

4:59

the any mice i was

5:01

married to dave koza

5:04

there are players that he

5:06

never in it for their own average area

5:08

in it for their own celebrity

5:10

and that wasn't days

5:13

he did whatever was best for

5:15

the club

5:20

the difference between a minor league ball

5:22

players daily life and a major league

5:24

ball players daily life is

5:27

a casual aaa

5:29

, like a hamburger bustling they call

5:31

it it it was long bus rides

5:34

we got a little envelope in it had

5:36

our meal money and money you know

5:38

enough for a couple hamburgers during the day

5:40

or whatever that was whatever it everyone

5:43

on the field they all want to

5:45

make it to the major leagues those have

5:47

already been to the major leagues wanna get back

5:50

to have never been can't wait

5:54

that also the managers want

5:57

to manage in the major leagues

5:59

the

5:59

pyre is

6:01

want to

6:02

the major leagues it's annoying

6:05

at all of that everyone who's on that field

6:08

that is a hunger

6:10

infuse throughout the night arab

6:13

effects are they have they have

6:15

ball away

6:25

my name is

6:26

drew and my husband federal

6:28

he was a general manager the register redwings

6:31

in he would announce again

6:33

he thought he had a magnificent boys yeah

6:41

this game is being broadcast

6:44

by bob true and p tara's

6:46

the sitting sitting is like a

6:49

suspended mobile home that

6:51

looms over the stadium and looks like it's just

6:53

held together with some duct tape normally

6:57

that , would not be saved for

6:59

posterity basically

7:01

because no one could care

7:04

right in

7:06

the case of this game and it's just serendipitous

7:10

bob true had asked his fiance

7:12

back and rochester linda

7:14

to record it

7:15

i keep against them and little transistor

7:18

radios and adhere to take cassette

7:20

in it

7:21

van back in rochester

7:23

why don't you drop me off guard by

7:25

, call is and of one

7:27

much much the first six

7:30

innings of the games it's following

7:32

the usual rhythms there wasn't a

7:34

lotta hitting but when the top of the seventh

7:36

rochester scored first

7:38

one of the of chris or

7:41

just plain overlap feel dr ian

7:43

the lead run of the ballgame the

7:45

wings leading want and ah thanks

7:48

in the bottom of the mice such as

7:50

was in these you're losing the game but been

7:52

behind only one run on my

7:54

optimists i'm always thinking my team comes

7:57

to winners game or there's always

7:59

hope

8:02

it was probably pushing close

8:04

to eleven o'clock and looks like the game

8:06

is almost , over

8:09

guy comes up to the plate is the designated

8:11

hitter russell larrabee here

8:13

we go was

8:23

what laramie it a fly ball

8:25

for the sacrifice why to the i'll

8:27

fill the topic scores on third

8:30

base on the fly ball that tried loved

8:32

one to one wrestler , a drove

8:34

in the tying run so we're we're is

8:36

static said we're tied the game

8:39

for one second one

8:58

once the ball game goes into extra

9:00

innings the intensity turns

9:02

up

9:04

around

9:07

the cantor eleven

9:08

any my husband bad called in

9:10

he said

9:10

to keep an eye says oh yeah that i

9:12

only got a few caitlin any

9:15

for the just got an inkling about this game and i just

9:17

i once you get tape he

9:19

was pretty by then so i call

9:21

my girlfriend and she was married

9:23

to a truck driver so she was getting up at the

9:25

attack misses the baseball game still

9:28

and and i'm running out a d the

9:31

she brings over couple we take over summer her stuff

9:33

then i had to get in my

9:34

the president

9:35

me and if is insane

9:37

she continues to record the game over

9:41

the singing of elvis presley i've

9:43

listened to the recording and as you're

9:45

listening to bob's room and p torres you

9:48

can hear in the same background

9:50

the ghostly sounds of

9:52

elvis presley

9:59

right by one more money

10:20

it reminds me

10:30

there were trying to write as the runway baseball

10:33

on wp act then it'll

10:35

be learn the koza and skin

10:38

tone a close to midnight no one's

10:40

come close to scoring business school

10:42

scoring business the tends to the eleventh with

10:44

the twelve says the thirteenth where

10:46

the fourteenth

10:47

the crowd was thinning out more

10:49

and more and more

10:51

easter ease people wanted

10:53

to get home and get the baskets ready for their

10:55

the our plate umpire sit there

10:57

and day today dennis wins the game going

10:59

to be called egos i had no idea

11:02

we're just gonna continue to play

11:04

the big question was

11:06

what about the curfew

11:10

players on the field and the managers

11:13

in the dugout know that

11:15

baseball as a cause you know

11:18

, shall continue beyond

11:21

twelve fifty in the morning

11:23

blah blah blah blah blah blah would

11:26

never had to play to play curfew and

11:28

now we're right up against it

11:31

the athletes was the third base umpire and

11:35

, called jack over and i said you know there's

11:37

a curfew with twelve fifty means

11:44

that no manual i've gotta go

11:46

by my manual

11:49

normally there would be a paragraph

11:51

it was a boilerplate paragraph talking

11:54

about curfews for

11:56

some reason that particular paragraph

11:59

disappear heard from the nineteen

12:01

eighty one manual when

12:03

it was being retired by secretary

12:06

who knows it sell off the page and rolled

12:08

under a table no one knows

12:10

but the paragraph is not there

12:12

it's just unbelievable

12:15

that somebody made a proofreading era

12:17

they created the opportunity

12:19

for this crazy night

12:21

common sense would

12:24

dictate that you would postpone

12:26

the game

12:27

the

12:28

it is somehow umpires think they

12:30

are trained to follow the book it's tell

12:33

moric

12:34

this interpretation manual is

12:36

something that you must go by a

12:38

could be what you call the umpires

12:40

bible my name is tony

12:43

mainers i was was

12:46

umpiring aaa baseball

12:49

yes it was cold and name was a good

12:51

name better the players were so tired

12:53

there were swinging miss and they're almost

12:55

like robots gone up there or

12:58

mummies or so i mean they just couldn't

13:00

perform but there was no

13:02

point no point evenings where

13:04

i would have even thought

13:06

of going against what

13:09

are book is actually saying

13:14

the game continues into the great

13:16

unknown of extra innings which means it

13:18

will go on and on

13:21

until someone scores are winning

13:23

run our ,

13:25

season i've been standing up for the last already

13:28

trying to keep warm warm our hands

13:30

in our in after

13:32

one o'clock in the morning the concession

13:35

stands were no giving away coffee

13:37

in away chocolate and hot dogs

13:40

who would just try to stay alive and

13:43

stay warm outdoor

13:45

for one

13:54

where it like you vote

13:59

the great good nobody

14:01

on the sealed had played that many innings

14:03

we , to the fact that that

14:06

were going school neither school we

14:08

couldn't even get on base until the

14:11

floodgates open in the twenty first

14:13

century

14:18

i remember what in one ear and out like of

14:20

the richest redwings have a man on

14:22

second the

14:24

batteries take offered any

14:27

, have any that's that's

14:30

to play as i have play as

14:32

hits a fly ball

14:34

the center field and it is a

14:36

routine fly ball this

14:39

is not a routine night there's

14:42

a tent player on the field senators

14:44

the wind

14:47

when takes the ball and

14:50

sort of plays with it like

14:52

a cat toy moving back and forth

14:55

in the air above the center field of

14:58

before finally tropics

15:05

have ever aaa ball

15:07

player

15:12

a cocoon smile

15:16

there was an adrenalin force there was

15:18

a hope we're going to end this thing finally

15:21

you could see all the anticipation

15:23

that we're going to put as games arrest and

15:26

they will laugh about in the clubhouse

15:32

well he blends into the bottom

15:35

of the twenty first sitting here in pa

15:37

fucking okay so now it's the bottom

15:39

of the twenty first talking

15:42

, sox sox call

15:44

it the the header i going to going

15:46

up there and stay positive and june

15:48

they somehow some way

15:54

the winner j they have had a a run

15:56

a while at eleven am i

15:58

second baseman

15:59

britain dives miss

16:02

the ball by two feet and better gotta double

16:05

have operated

16:08

on that so now and save

16:10

closer standing on second base

16:13

oh fuck that it was a moderate second

16:16

one away

16:21

there's always hope when wade boggs

16:23

steps into the batteries box a

16:25

man he was a three hundred for said of walking

16:28

up to the plate and i said oh

16:30

my gosh just said single to the

16:32

ncr has an opportunity for dave to score

16:35

i will not quiet as

16:37

i would always

16:39

scream brand ,

16:42

always success sit

16:46

for all the powers that be to

16:48

bring him home

16:59

we just tied the game up and them at

17:01

two o'clock in the morning is

17:04

, cheering and been for everybody bows

17:07

oh my god are we gonna continue

17:09

this this

17:12

yeah we were only

17:19

a broader for this game is

17:21

five hours and twelve minutes old

17:23

and has only been four run florida and

17:25

twenty one

17:29

i looked out over the stadium beyond

17:32

the lights it ,

17:34

so dark in potok that

17:36

night everybody sleeping sleeping

17:39

were playing baseball playing

17:41

, bracing

17:57

the game reaches the twenty second inning

18:00

there's the excitement that comes with extra

18:02

innings and then there are too

18:04

many extra innings way

18:08

, celebration maybe

18:10

not the point back and any my

18:12

name's dallas williams was you

18:14

face the guy was to in the

18:16

morning

18:17

everything looks unheard of

18:20

i was afraid at that point and as

18:22

if god damn with now though have to do to

18:24

get a idiot so

18:26

i laid out of but and a ball hit

18:29

me

18:38

your mortgage thought that the ball hit me

18:41

that say territory and the applies to

18:43

see it that way

18:44

morgan who is a manager of the target

18:46

red sox

18:48

is out on the field screaming

18:51

at the home plate umpire because he says

18:53

that williams is out really

18:57

really hot i remember joe run

18:59

it out and get the applies face

19:01

the was pissed the

19:19

that he applies

19:22

said if you don't get off the field

19:24

imo to call the cops and joe

19:26

said what are you crazy

19:28

what kelp is gonna come to the ballpark

19:30

at one o'clock at avoiding the door

19:32

mans your as a field

19:42

everywhere

19:43

oh wow

19:47

everybody by that

19:49

like just

19:51

hunting silly route

19:56

anyway here we go

19:59

we have somebody coming

20:02

out of the

20:15

as we were getting colder

20:18

we found a a metal trash

20:20

can and we started building

20:22

a fire so that we could form our

20:24

hands are , bad became

20:27

firewood you're breaking off

20:29

answer that would bench to burned in always

20:31

do that in there

20:33

we got invited to come down to bend

20:36

the , box and that's

20:38

when the service regal scotch

20:40

queer

20:44

sitting there that years

20:45

debbie been we have largest

20:48

huddled under all these blink it's just

20:50

taken wig out of the bottle

20:52

they want might have made all of you people

20:55

most played was a divine older and a big

20:57

party back there in rochester and are

20:59

going to try to win it for you

21:01

the people calling the ballpark

21:04

because there has been our

21:06

son or whoever was not coming

21:08

home

21:09

dennis craig

21:11

the plate umpire

21:13

it brought his nephew to the ballgame

21:15

at one o'clock

21:16

his mother is so concerned

21:19

this was before the cellphones before

21:21

the internet

21:23

he called

21:24

the city

21:26

who called county who called the slate

21:29

they were looking over every bridge looking for

21:31

taillights

21:32

finally they traced back to the ballpark

21:35

the opposite calls the mother says

21:37

ma'am

21:38

we had found your son

21:40

the you safe

21:42

there in the twenty seventh inning

21:48

it's to thirty quarter or three three

21:50

o'clock three ,

21:52

ten fifteen on on on a goes on three

21:55

four five six seven

21:58

fair twenty eight fam

22:02

loyal fan i

22:04

was seventeen hundred were down twenty

22:06

eight which

22:07

no for one second that i everything's

22:10

okay i'm going to go home and sleep now there

22:12

was no way

22:14

i was there

22:15

so the bitter end at

22:20

the bar for the

22:21

the pillow right back in rochester

22:23

our like fetus listen to the both

22:26

the show right out to the conclusion of his

22:28

ballgame

22:29

if it ever does in

22:36

the beginnings mounted then

22:39

we got to twenty five innings twenty

22:41

seven innings thirty years

22:44

we begin wouldn't we gotta be close

22:46

to a record here

22:47

baseball history puts

22:49

a lot of emphasis on records most kids

22:52

to the game of most home runs hit the

22:54

seasons most this most that all

22:56

kinds of crazy records

22:58

the again while we have a chance

23:01

here tonight in little pathetic rhode island

23:03

to get in the history books

23:05

it became what you were playing for

23:08

at some point

23:09

it

23:10

something good had to come out of is crazy

23:13

night roast we all froze arrearage

23:15

or for nothing

23:16

in i that everyone kind of wanted to be over

23:19

then again you don't want to give up a

23:21

when from

23:30

, to twenty five i

23:32

made three diving plays i

23:34

don't want to go home that night that loser

23:36

the greatest day thirty zero

23:38

as competitors and i bought

23:40

this is the battle it was just the battle

23:42

for the last one the one that

23:45

was gonna come in in in the game

23:46

try to break the deadlock

23:49

, same time simply twenty

23:51

for for goodness the

23:55

bar we played exactly eight hours

23:57

always told me i had told me mouth with

23:59

i don't know i is hundred hours

24:02

straight

24:06

but here it is four o'clock in the

24:08

morning the thirty second innings

24:10

it's , absurd to say that in

24:13

baseball to say the thirty second

24:15

inning righteous the gets a guy

24:17

and second base base battered

24:20

sits a single to write to

24:24

shot and my throat arizona that and

24:26

or i feel have i said john

24:28

hell is rounding third tale

24:31

was trying to score that would have been

24:33

the ballgame your foot rodgers bread

24:35

the manager for the rochester redwings

24:37

is waving his arms is a windmill

24:40

get your like home get home the

24:43

right field of for were the target field sox

24:45

is sam bowen now

24:48

bowen has to try and throw this guy

24:50

out an entire game rides

24:52

on this play so

24:55

let's pause here

24:58

imagine

24:59

being sample and

25:01

in in right field for

25:04

seven plus hours

25:06

the was

25:08

i asked bowen

25:10

did you ever think about

25:12

not giving it your best throw maybe

25:15

throwing it over the past

25:17

baldwin really

25:19

angry with me

25:22

he said this is what i do i'm

25:24

not going to do anything less than

25:26

my best even though this guy

25:28

this never gonna make it back to the major leagues and

25:30

he knows it dammit

25:32

he is not gonna let the sky score

25:35

sammy takes it out to hops

25:37

and makes it the rope a tremendous

25:40

throw fails the runner read the play the

25:52

unbelievable you

25:54

make depleted top of the night it's a great

25:57

play he makes it plain tap the thirty

25:59

second

25:59

it's a it's a historic play

26:03

to me it's spoke

26:05

to the true

26:07

our it

26:08

the professional baseball player that

26:11

and the top of the thirty second inning

26:14

at four o'clock in the morning that

26:16

, would throw out a guy at home play in

26:19

those circumstances or what the ammo

26:21

party throw it throw up it

26:23

through

26:32

or for the morning mentally i had

26:34

title last it was a baseball

26:36

could kiss my ass tonight because this

26:38

is not the way based was supposed to

26:40

be playing whether the shit go

26:42

to n

26:44

the over through the night ever

26:46

since the fifteenth ending my

26:48

tim burrow of the protected red sox

26:51

has been calling columbus ohio

26:53

has been calling the home of a guy

26:55

named harold cooper who was the president

26:58

of the international league and

27:00

who has authority to call the game

27:03

we call the to ucla and he didn't pick up

27:05

the we call the three o'clock and he didn't pick

27:07

up

27:08

we called the three thirty and he didn't pick

27:10

up

27:11

it wasn't until about

27:13

quarter of for in the morning that he

27:15

finally answered the phone he he was in a deep

27:17

sleep

27:18

what he was out in some gin mill someplace

27:21

a limited up

27:23

harold the quarter

27:25

of for the morning were still playing ball

27:27

he said you're still playing baseball

27:30

it absolutely curfew

27:32

i got jack leads to third base umpire

27:35

one him into the office our

27:38

a third base umpire base

27:40

out to the point that the dugout for we

27:42

don't know what the heck's going on cooper

27:44

basically says ended now

27:46

the fucking

27:49

burrow

27:52

seven in the morning on easter sunday

27:54

the umpires have finally suspended

27:56

the game and a well as the made

27:59

by it off

27:59

at a later date we decided

28:02

which conclude this game

28:04

when rodgers the would big the next appearance

28:07

at mccoy stadium

28:08

the of these players at least some

28:11

time off to get some rest think

28:13

, our our i

28:15

replied to say about this upright

28:18

hard there are thirty two thirty

28:20

and were alone the right

28:22

at the redwings and apotheker redwings sox are be

28:25

commended for a job well done to die

28:27

what began the final car around

28:29

one second rhode island arrive at

28:31

the runway include of the for talk at read

28:33

by fill in a good friend

28:35

there for pizza rather

28:37

than our birds are into their back it

28:39

up your via then

28:40

than by drew song everybody

28:53

i looked over right field fence i

28:55

saw wait in the sky it was actually

28:57

the beginning of dawn it

29:00

was a beautiful easter sunday morning

29:09

i think that there are plenty people

29:12

who would think the minor leagues

29:14

as not that impressive

29:17

where , played minor league ball nazi never

29:19

made it to the majors i guess you know so you

29:21

probably aren't that good good

29:24

had to think about the millions

29:27

of boys and girls who

29:30

played baseball and sandlot played

29:32

in the little leagues were lucky enough to make

29:34

their high school baseball team they

29:36

made it to their college their to

29:38

play college ball as impressive to play minor

29:41

league ball is really ball impressive

29:44

or the time you make it to the aaa you

29:46

are an exceptional

29:49

player

29:56

mccoy stadium in for target

29:58

rhode island

29:59

beautiful sunshine a late afternoon

30:02

time john miller home with can

30:05

june twenty third

30:07

was when righteous the came back to town

30:10

and we were going to complete the longest game

30:13

the two months between innings major

30:16

, baseball went on strike

30:18

major league players now officially on strike

30:21

back the owner saturday quote the season

30:23

is cancelled until further notice

30:26

big leagues or and strike and we're the

30:28

only game in town they would be the

30:30

biggest baseball games probably

30:32

the biggest sporting event in the country

30:35

that there there the most of

30:37

the city of a talk about i remember

30:40

years back would believe it or not

30:51

they it out of what i'm going to always be

30:53

known as a place where they quite a long

30:56

game of history of baseball and

30:58

better where they shot the drunken general

31:01

the to eight hundred people came

31:03

to the game place was sold out

31:06

the people who couldn't get tickets

31:08

lawrence was standing on top of the a cars

31:11

looking over the fence walked out

31:13

on the field there's cameras and men

31:15

press like you've

31:17

never seen before of is like being in a big

31:20

leagues really

31:23

the armed forces radio and television

31:25

service we had the i'm serbs

31:27

radio we had the money t daily

31:29

news from tokyo we had

31:31

the bbc faithful

31:33

inferior i'm still on for ever and

31:36

last time it's just about did it

31:38

, for eight hours and seven minutes

31:40

ending after four o'clock in the morning within

31:43

a result result this in a country

31:45

where they think that cricket is cricket finally

31:48

the umpires suit the away

31:50

so that the baseball team can pursue

31:53

will pick it up and thirty heard anything

31:56

about are now is cal ripken

31:59

jr

31:59

the top of the thirty third i got a single

32:02

up the middle which , made my one

32:04

for twelve nights are turning the to for thirteen

32:06

it's her i was gonna have the about ripken

32:10

with a lead away from first base and

32:12

or heated garage and heated garage fireball

32:15

and on i feel running and on ideas walker

32:19

we'll go to the last half

32:22

of the thirty third inning to

32:24

, to

32:27

of the of i think the pressure

32:30

was already pressure motion the

32:32

first batter motion more separate he

32:34

gets his isis and we've got a guy

32:36

on first the next batter his

32:38

cheek a walker she gets a single

32:41

cylinder some guy on first

32:43

and third cynics battery is

32:45

russell our thing

32:46

he is what the bases

32:49

are loaded and a coda

32:52

strong right handed batter it will

32:54

be coming to the plate

32:56

they couldn't even imagine mullen gone to

32:58

days mind

33:00

there was just a lot of pressure

33:02

real life

33:03

hi sorry

33:04

like the eyes of the baseball world

33:07

they were on him

33:09

leave your home life for

33:11

this moment

33:13

one more one strike

33:15

is a gun on closer respects

33:18

is on the mound the pitcher for rochester

33:21

or recall selling off a couple

33:23

pitches that kind of told me that i was little

33:25

bit anxious when he would swing

33:28

and miss

33:28

again after

33:30

you can do you thought to see

33:32

the ball salmond to see where you can afford

33:35

it

33:35

i just try to focus in

33:37

tried to block out everything

33:40

that i could see know it's

33:42

just me

33:44

the guy on the mound fear

33:46

, all right on day co

33:48

that that work to the

33:50

bell he shows me curveball

33:52

that message gets

33:55

message out almost every time out

33:57

almost have had my hands clasped and prayers

33:59

a moment i just remembered

34:02

holding my breath the

34:04

to do bread

34:10

hurry i made contact i just i

34:13

looked it ,

34:16

over the head of

34:18

the future hall of famer calvert and jr who

34:21

could do nothing to stop it it

34:23

it lands and france in the short

34:25

outfield and morty thera such

34:27

as home phone

34:35

push for space and by the time

34:37

i i turned around to his back

34:40

in our teammates were teammates were out

34:42

on the field

34:49

in agreement

34:49

let me n

34:52

i was trying to get down to

34:55

given the high five or something

34:57

and couldn't even get near be says all

35:00

the fans or email against

35:01

the wrong place ,

35:03

absolutely bonkers a

35:06

it's like we had one the seventh game with the world series

35:35

one day

35:37

the cozier was the king of baseball

35:41

the attention of baseball hungry firms

35:43

has been captured by a minor league game in

35:45

rhode island game the longest in

35:47

baseball history finally ended last night

35:49

james walker report the manager at

35:51

asked me if you want to be on good morning

35:54

america then it's gonna be you

35:56

and and count ripken jr

35:58

hello vase

35:59

hello hello how you

36:02

had quite had nice ensure days and then i

36:04

wanted last night how to do that well

36:06

air was bases loaded no on out and i'm

36:09

over the place and now i just

36:11

wouldn't be anywhere else right then made

36:14

sure you touch first base got insidious ideas

36:17

and secure that ballgame value

36:19

created history salas created was salas i ball

36:21

game and sims as devices the all winners

36:23

and losers provide

36:37

the minor leaguer is always

36:39

hearing time clearing

36:42

it's throat

36:44

be nineteen and twenty the

36:46

future is just wide open for you

36:48

okay and you're gonna make it to the major

36:50

leagues

36:52

now you're twenty five

36:54

you have not been called up and now

36:56

they're players who younger than you

36:59

and warming up beside you the

37:02

time you twenty six twenty seven twenty eight

37:04

time as saying what are we doing here

37:07

you're married the have a couple of kids

37:10

you're playing a boys game

37:11

he not getting paid all that much you

37:14

can't live on , free

37:17

tobacco to they're giving you a clubhouse

37:20

you very much feel the

37:22

eyes of others on you

37:24

and so a few days cosa

37:27

playing for the target red sox you're

37:30

almost there

37:32

being so close it

37:34

drove me nuts it really did just

37:37

always hoping that

37:39

i would get that shot you

37:41

know to play as fenway park

37:46

the play for two more seasons

37:48

korea twenty nine years old made

37:51

an appointment to go see the minor

37:53

league director that kenny

37:55

in boston and

37:57

the meeting and last

37:59

it'll be more than then minutes

38:02

he said that they weren't interested in me and

38:04

he's pretty much made it clear that know the

38:07

red sox for not gonna you know offer

38:09

me a contract that's

38:11

it that was gonna be

38:13

the end of it as far as me playing

38:16

baseball again the

38:18

just wasn't meant to be

38:21

i remember the and out

38:24

in the parking lot of mccoy we were

38:26

packed up to go and

38:30

we had this tiny little newborn baby

38:32

in the back seat and on

38:35

ah whose

38:37

heart wrenching

38:39

the he wasn't me to be playing the next season

38:42

without knowing it the longest game

38:45

was gonna be the most important

38:47

davis career and he didn't realize

38:49

it at the time

38:52

those are the guys that i really

38:54

admired the most in all my

38:56

years in this business the guys

38:59

who had put up big numbers

39:02

who would work hard

39:04

we call him for a players

39:06

the not big leaguers and inexorably

39:09

there are little bit above

39:11

that not above enough

39:18

in the years to come wade

39:21

, and cal ripken jr

39:24

like having full of same careers

39:26

dallas williams wound up getting

39:29

major league playing time and he became

39:31

a well respected batting instructor

39:33

and coach and he still in

39:35

the came to this day day

39:38

, never played cruiser

39:41

, game and major league baseball

39:44

but is

39:46

bad and his portrait did

39:49

, it to cooperstown dave

39:52

cosa has been of a red sox farm system

39:54

for the past seven years but never

39:57

never has there been has night like tonight

39:59

the in marty baron who scored the winning

40:02

run forever now will be immortalized

40:04

in baseball hall of fame because

40:06

, one has ever played thirty three innings before

40:09

before until two teams do it do dave

40:12

cosa and all the productive red sox

40:14

are unique chapter in baseball as in

40:16

history and all happened

40:18

right here in protective rhode island as

40:21

phil rizzuto the yankees play by play announcer

40:24

likes to say

40:38

in you know than twenty one of the tech

40:40

a red sox under new ownership left

40:43

the city they'd called home for more than fifty years

40:45

and move to worcester massachusetts the

40:47

old mccoy stadium with it's murals to

40:50

honor baseball's longest game

40:52

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40:57

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