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TIL that the longest game in baseball history went for 33 innings for a total of 8 1/2 hours. The game was so long that when pitcher Luis Aponte got home at 3AM, his wife didn't believe his story for being gone. He had to promise her that he would show her proof of the game in the next day's paper.

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