Thursday, May 26, 2011

Phillies 2B Gets Win Over Reds in 19th

ESPN:
Wilson Valdez has a new career as a late-inning reliever.
Late. Really, really late.
Valdez shifted over from second base and wound up as the winning pitcher early Thursday when the Philadelphia Phillies needed 19 innings to outlast the Cincinnati Reds 5-4.In front of a dwindling crowd at Citizens Bank Park, Raul Ibanez hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly to decide the longest major league game of the season. It ended at 1:19 a.m. local time after 6 hours, 11 minutes.
Shaving cream nestled in his beard and dripping off his ear in the locker room, Valdez wanted to keep pitching.
"I can go for three more, four more (innings). Whatever," he said.
The last position player to get a win was Brent Mayne on August 22, 2000 for the Rockies.  Before that, it was Rocky Colavito on August 25, 1968 for the Yankees.  So the Reds-Phillies four-game series becomes a de facto five-game series, and to add insult to injury, today's game is at 1:05.  I think they ought to divide last night's game into 2-nine-and-a-half inning games, since the Reds were up 4-3 in the middle of the tenth.

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