# Red Sox beat Yankess in 19 inning game!!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-sox-beat-yankess-in-19-inning-game/717431>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [April 11, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-sox-beat-yankess-in-19-inning-game/717431 "2015-04-11T15:01:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-sox-beat-yankess-in-19-inning-game/717431/1 "2015-04-11T15:01:48Z")

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Boston Globe [story](https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/04/11/red-sox/ax0GT9bI2NE1Aar4L6NZbK/story.html) here.

And the lady from Boston does her Happy Dance!!

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**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-sox-beat-yankess-in-19-inning-game/717431/2 "2015-04-11T16:43:35Z")

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And they’re back on the field now for their 1 PM game.

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**Author:** ![jonesj2205](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jonesj2205](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonesj2205)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-sox-beat-yankess-in-19-inning-game/717431/3 "2015-04-11T19:52:41Z")

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Game finished after 2 and Pedroia was in locker room before 8:30.  
Long season Pedey, pace yourself.

Yankee defense looking pretty bad too.

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**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-sox-beat-yankess-in-19-inning-game/717431/4 "2015-04-12T11:40:44Z")

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> [@jonesj2205](#):
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> Game finished after 2 and Pedroia was in locker room before 8:30.  
> Long season Pedey, pace yourself.

That is pacing himself. He probably showed up 60-90 minutes later than he normally would have.

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-sox-beat-yankess-in-19-inning-game/717431/5 "2015-04-12T13:40:30Z")

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> [@Annie-Xmas](#):
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> Boston Globe [story](https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/04/11/red-sox/ax0GT9bI2NE1Aar4L6NZbK/story.html) here.

Very poorly written.

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> At 6 hours, 49 minutes, it was the longest game in Red Sox history — and that didn’t include a 16-minute delay in the 12th inning when some of the lights at Yankee Stadium went out.
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> It was the longest game between the teams since the Yankees beat the Red Sox, 4-3, in 20 innings on Aug. 29, 1967.

This is the Red Sox’s longest game ever, and there was an even longer one in '67. Huh?  
Yeah, I’m pretty sure I know what he meant. Still, that’s bad writing.

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**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-sox-beat-yankess-in-19-inning-game/717431/6 "2015-04-12T14:07:00Z")

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> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> Very poorly written.This is the Red Sox’s longest game ever, and there was an even longer one in '67. Huh?  
> Yeah, I’m pretty sure I know what he meant. Still, that’s bad writing.

It’s the Globe.