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The 13 longest extra-inning games in MLB playoff, World Series history

"It's the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living."

Bill Vaughn is right. Mathematically, it is possible for a single game to last forever. Some might argue that a few certainly feel like they have.

Baseball's extra-innings rule in the regular season — which puts a so-called magic runner on second base to start each half-inning after the bottom of the ninth — helped to reduce the length of games in 2021. Only 62 games reached the 11th inning during the season, a drastic reduction from the 234 games that reached the 11th in 2019 before the rule was implemented for the CO

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