OSG Baseball: 2 Games, 38 Innings... Long Distance Runaround...

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Miami, the Mets, Texas, and Toronto played a lot of baseball this afternoon...

One game went 20 innings and the other went only 18...

The details in the National League Game...

Adeiny Hechavarria singled home Placido Polanco in the 20th for Miami's first run since the fourth-inning. That's 16 innings (or two home games) of not scoring until you score. The game itself went 6-hours and 25-minutes and was the longest game ever in the short history of Citi Field. Kevin Slowey threw seven shutout innings in relief. The Mets left 22 on base and didn't score after the second innings (that's two full games of not scoring).

It was Hechevarria's first major league game-winning hit...
16 pitchers were involved in 140 at-bats. The Marlins threw 294 pitches and the Mets threw 267.
The Marlins are, actually, now 17-44...
Here's your postgame...
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In the American League, Toronto's closer Casey Janssen is, usually, a slam dunk. Especially with a two-run lead in the ninth inning... but not today. Janssen gave up the game-tying runs in the top of the ninth and the game went for a while...

Rajai Davis hit the game-winning single in the longest game (innings-wise) in Jays history- winning 4-3 in only 18...
Toronto used nine pitchers while the Rangers used only five, but Ross Wolf went 6-and-two-thirds in relief for the Rangers and gave up the single...
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Another Game-Tying Grand Slam... For Nothing...

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It's not every day that you see extra-inning grand slams... regardless the ones that mean something...

Kyle Seager did the following in front of a crowd of teens in Seattle this afternoon...


But, as it goes sometimes, it was all for naught...
The White Sox scored twice in the 16th inning for the 7-5 win...

Seager is now hitting .283 in the middle of the Mariners order...
The clubs combined for 15 pitchers, 244 pitches thrown by White Sox pitchers and 249 by Seattle...
The game took 5 hours and 42 minutes

Two Balls On The Pitch, One Goal Scored...

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And for this, we go to the Finnish soccer league...

It's a normal every day Fixture 26 on the league between Haka (who dress kinda like their Kiwi brethren) and HJK Helsinki...

HJK is at the top of the table while Haka are somewhere in the middle. And with HJK having won the last three matches between the two, you had the feeling that it would go their way...

But not entirely...

Tied at ones, an interesting goal came about from a bit of confusion and extra-cooperation from ball boys on the scene...

Pay close attention...


The goal made it 2-1 HJK, but Haka scored the karmic equalizer for the 2-2 final...