While the Saturday night's Giants-Nationals NLDS Game 2 seems almost interminably long -- it's currently tied for the second longest with the Astros-Mets 1986 NLCS Game 6 -- we still have a ways to go before it reaches the longest game in postseason history: an 18-inning, 7-6 marathon home win by the Astros against the Braves in Game 4 of the 2005 NLDS.
Tim Hudson has knack for starting longest postseason games
Saturday’s Nationals-Giants game is crazy, but it isn’t even the longest game Tim Hudson or Adam LaRoche have been parts of.
Rob Carr
That game, which went five hours and 50 minutes and saw 14 different pitchers throw 553 pitches, was coincidentally started for the Braves by Tim Hudson, the same man who started for the Giants Saturday. It also featured current Nationals first baseman Adam LaRoche on the Braves, but was won by the Astros in the bottom of the 18th on a home run by pinch-hitter Chris Burke.
Hudson went seven innings to start the 2005 marathon, and he upped that gain by one out on Saturday. LaRoche homered early in the 18-inning contest, but is 0-for-6 through 14 frames in the current affair. The Nationals need to find a walk-off hit in order to avoid falling into an 0-2 deficit in the best-of-five series before shifting the venue to San Francisco.
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