Tony Boeckel, Boston Braves, 5/1/1920

Boston Braves 1, Brooklyn Dodgers 1

This just can’t be right, a 26 inning game that took 3 hours and 50 minutes? That is about what a game takes nowadays, and you might be lucky to be under that if the home team is winning entering the bottom of the ninth so that the actual game is only 8 and one half innings.

Game of 5/1/1920 -- Brooklyn at Boston (D)

  Brooklyn           AB  R  H RBI    Boston             AB  R  H RBI
Olson I, 2b          10  0  1  1   Powell R, cf          7  0  1  0   
Neis B, rf           10  0  1  0   Pick C, 2b           11  0  0  0   
Johnston J, 3b       10  0  2  0   Mann L, lf           10  0  2  0   
Wheat Z, lf           9  0  2  0   Cruise W, rf          9  1  1  0   
Myers H, cf           2  0  1  0   Holke W, 1b          10  0  2  0   
Hood W, pr-cf         6  0  1  0   Boeckel T, 3b        11  0  3  1   
Konetchy E, 1b        9  0  1  0   Maranville R, ss     10  0  3  0   
Ward C, ss           10  0  0  0   O'Neil M, c           2  0  0  0   
Krueger E, c          2  1  0  0   Christenbury L, ph    1  0  1  0   
Elliott R, c          7  0  0  0   Gowdy H, c            6  0  1  0   
Cadore L, p          10  0  0  0   Oeschger J, p         9  0  1  0   
                     -- -- -- --                        -- -- -- --
                     85  1  9  1                        86  1 15  1

Brooklyn         000 010 000 000 000 000 000 000 00 --  1
Boston           000 001 000 000 000 000 000 000 00 --  1

  Brooklyn             IP  H  R ER BB SO
Cadore L             26.0 15  1  1  5  7

  Boston               IP  H  R ER BB SO
Oeschger J           26.0  9  1  1  4  7

E -- Pick C 2, Olson I, Ward C
DP -- Brooklyn 1, Boston 1
LOB -- Brooklyn 11, Boston 17
2B -- Oeschger J, Maranville R
3B -- Cruise W
SB -- Myers H, Hood W
CS -- Boeckel T
SH -- Powell R, O'Neil M, Cruise W, Oeschger J, Holke W, Hood W
WP -- Oeschger J
T -- 3:50
A -- 4500