2018 Home Run Derby: Longest playoff game in MLB history
The game lasted 6 hours 23 minutes, and ended just after midnight October 5, 2014. I will never forget listening to this game on an ipad, on a deck into the weee hours, in San Diego, not having it on t.v. Gives me goosebumps to rethink how unbelievable and exciting it was.
Giants top Nationals in longest playoff game in MLB history for 2-0 NLDS lead.
Brandon Belt hit a leadoff home run off Tanner Roark in the top of the 18th inning, for what proved to be the winning run in the longest playoff game in major league history. With the 2-1 win, the Giants, who had been down to their last out with the bases empty in the top of the ninth, took a 2-0 lead over Washington in the Division Series.
The previous longest game in postseason history was the Astros’ 7-6 win over the Braves in Game 4 of the 2005 Division Series. That game lasted 18 innings and took five hours and 50 minutes to play. 2014’s matchup took 6 hours and 23 minutes and was the fourth extra-inning game of this young 10-game old postseason.
The Giants went on to win 2014’s World Series. I was fortunate enough to be at Game 4, sitting in AT&T in the "Kansas City Family of the Team section". They couldn’t have been nicer & there were a few Giants fans we bonded with, to make for a personal GREAT World Series Game.