The Yankees Played 19 innings of Baseball tonight, And Lost

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This was the longest game in Yankees franchise history in terms of time – we actually had a friend at the game – for at least some of it.

This game had a little bit of everything, and it’s the kind of unpredictable little lottery that buying a ticket to a baseball game can provide. It’s honestly the type of game we’ve always wanted to be present at.

There was a 16-minute power outage at the game, making the official time of the game six hours, 49 minutes. With the power outage factored in, officially it was not the longest game in franchise history.

We started watching this one somewhere around the 13th. It was a game that just wanted to stay tied. The Red Sox led with two outs in the ninth when Edward Mujica surrendered a home run to Chase Headley to send it to extras.

Then the Red Sox grabbed two leads in extra innings that the Yankees came back to tie; one on a home run by David Ortiz and the other on a single by Pablo Sandoval.

The winning run in the top of the 19th scored on a sac fly after a Yankees passed ball allowed by John Ryan Murphy.