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Posted By: barrysloate

I was just speaking to a friend who like me, loves these very bizarre and extreme box scores, defined pretty much as games that are likely to occur once in a lifetime or only once ever.

The two best ones we could come up with from the last 50 years were the 1979 game in which the Phillies beat the Cubs 23-22 in 10 innings, and last night's. These are games that probably will never occur again. In 1981, Rochester and Pawtucket played 33 innings, and that one is equal to the other two in terms of rarity, but it was the minor leagues.