26-inning game AKA what does f(0) REALLY mean?

[ClowntimeIsOver]

The longest MLB game ever was 26 innings (a tie). This one almost made it, falling one out short (which would've put it into the 27th) -- HAL clocked it at 8 hours and 28 minutes ... hope it was a day game ....

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/league/boxscore.html?group_id=102323&g_id=423

My team (Pages) was a wild experiment that failed (22-14 to begin the season, then started losing every time, so I pulled the plug and made changes). Terrible hitting. The other team also has terrible hitting. Petco.

This is maybe the 5th 15-plus inning game my reliever-oriented team has had ("St. Joseph Pages" is a joke about the bullpen, as is the manager's name, Marpo Firberry, which also is a joke on "double switch").

[edit: changed title to bring up broader point]

[ROBERTLATORRE]

There was almost a no hitter embedded in the middle of the game!

[apolivka]

Amazing game. The 4-5-6 hitters on the "fourteens" were a combined 1-32!

Worst performance was probably Adam Jones who was 0-8 with 5 strikeouts. Ludwick was 0-11 and Daemon was 0-10, so that's probably worse, I guess. Close call :) Prince struck out 5 times too, but had his one hit right at the end where it counted.

After the 19th inning every pitcher was at F0, yet nobody scored till the 26th? I would have thought that was almost impossible.

[ClowntimeIsOver]

As pointed out by apolivka above, this game featured a huge number of PAs against pitchers with F0 fatigue ratings. Arroyo's entire 7+ innings (29 PAs) were at F0, and he let up only 6 hits (all singles) and a walk. Ni was at F0 for 3 batters (all outs), Danks for 4 (2 walks), and Jimenez for 14 (1 hit 1 walk). That's 50 PAs with 7 hits (all singles) and 4 walks -- a .152 / .220 / .152 line. Granted, they were all helped out by Petco ballpark ratings and by fielder (x) rolls (and bad hitters). But still ...

Small detail: Victor Martinez got a 2-game injury in the last inning of the previous game, so I was stuck with Raul Chavez the whole game; maybe VMart could've done better than 1 for 10!

[TomSiebert]

I don't understand what's going on w the F0 at all. I've had HAL leave in guys to get totally annihilated while I've had fresh arms on the bench, as games have gone from 4-3 thrillers to 15-3 blowouts (like my game last night).

Something's changed. This didn't happen before. It's not a good change and I don't like it.

tws