I went to bed last night with the Yankees leading the Cubs 4-1 in the top of the ninth inning. While I’m not surprised the Yankees won the game, I was surprised it was 5-4 in 18 innings:
Hicks scored on Starlin Castro‘s grounder in the 18th inning, and the rolling Yankees beat the Chicago Cubs 5-4 in the majors’ longest interleague game ever by innings.
“We’re going to grind out games,” Hicks said. “We’re going to fight to the end.”
The teams combined for a major league-record 48 strikeouts in baseball’s longest game of the season by innings, wrapping up in a tidy 6 hours, 5 minutes.
“I know we lost, but you’ve got to try to have fun with it,” Cubs slugger Anthony Rizzo said.
The Yankees now own the best record in the majors. With the Reds winning five in a row and the Cubs getting swept, Cincinnati now sits atop the NL Central.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2qgLs4D
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