I remember reading a quote once in one of Roger Angell’s New Yorker pieces about a close baseball game; a player said something like “We really drug it through a knothole that time.”
Well, the Dodgers and Padres did that today. 17 innings. Official time of game: 4 hours 55 minutes. The Dodgers used every relief pitcher they had and scared their fans into hyperventilation by going ahead in the top of the 17th, then allowing two Padres on in the bottom of the inning before their final pitcher struck out the last guy.
Yow. Good thing not all games are like that.