Rockies outlast Padres 2-1 in 22 innings (AP)

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When Free Baseball Goes Horribly Wrong
Published 4/18/2008 by Lloyd "the barber" Moseby at Ghostrunner on First
... before someone scored again. Almost another full game. Without scoring. I don't know if that makes me want to laugh or cry. Fourteen scoreless innings is enough to make even the modest ardent purist long for the steroid addled days of Sammy and Mark. Both of these teams have to play on the road tomorrow (tonight? Friday we'll say) which should just go as wins for the D Backs and Astros without any question. Full credit to AP writer Bernie Wilson for firing off this game recap free of any and all quotes in record time.

Open Thread: Cubs vs. Pirates, Friday 4/18, 1:20 CT
Published 4/18/2008 by Al at Bleed Cubbie Blue: Front Page Posts
... And in case you missed it, last night's Padres/Rockies game went 22 innings and lasted six hours and sixteen minutes. ...

Let's play 22
Published 4/18/2008 by edwzipper at Sports Frog
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.

Ker-Plunk
Published 6/6/2008 by Metstradamus (noreply@blogger.com) at The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus
Think of it this way: Scott Schoeneweis did everyone a favor. When you're staring down the barrel of a 1-1 game with the San Diego Padres in the ninth, you know that dealing with this team that can't score that if you go to the tenth inning, you're most likely going to the 18th ... or the 22nd. And you can't re-introduce Abraham Nunez to the major leagues with a 30-inning ballgame after he spent the last six weeks riding buses ... because that's not fair. So rather than put Nunez, and us fans, through a long, riveting at-bat showcasing the very ...