Good morning!
The baseball playoffs have provided us with a couple of extraordinarily long games. First, we had the Guardians outlasting the Rays in fifteen innings, followed a week later with the Astros riding out an eighteen inning victory over the Mariners.
Neither of those, however, hold a candle to one of the longest games in MLB history and one which the White Sox were involved in: a twenty-five inning affair against the Milwaukee Brewers on May 8 and May 9, 1984. It's the longest game, in terms of time, in MLB history: 8 hours and 6 minutes, suspended at 1 am after 17 innings (there was a rule at the time that no game could go past that time), and concluded the following day on a walk-off home run.
Today's Sporcle is all about that game. Who was involved for both Milwaukee and Chicago? Any player who made it into the game, regardless of their role, is included in this quiz. That's a total of 44 names: how many can you get? Good luck!
Quiz Parameters
- I've allotted 20 minutes for completion attempts.
- For hints, I've provided the position of the player, and grouped by team.
Useless information to amaze, annoy, confuse, and/or confound your friends and family:
- Milwaukee scored three in the top of the twenty-first inning, and the White Sox responded with three of their own in the bottom of the frame to keep things rolling.
- There were just two home runs in this entire game, the aforementioned walk-off in the 25th by the Sox and the three-run shot by the Brewers in the 21st.
- I'm including links to the game recap at SABR, box score, and a video, all of which contain spoilers, at the bottom of this post.
All data from baseballreference.com
