The Longest Game in baseball history: Test your knowledge

 

Enjoy this short quiz about The Longest Game; answers are at the bottom.
1. The Longest Game started on April 18-19 and was suspended at 4:07 a.m. on Easter Sunday after the Rochester Red Wings and PawSox had played 32 innings. Why did the June 23 finale receive unprecedented news coverage worldwide?
2. Name the two Hall of Famers, one with each team, who played in the Longest Game.
3. The Longest Game was 1-1 until both teams scored in the 21st inning. Who knocked in the PawSox run to make the game 2-2?
4. Former Red Sox southpaw Bruce Hurst pitched the 27th through 32nd innings in the early-morning hours of April 19. What Red Wings player did he strike out at 4 a.m.?
5. Which PawSox pitcher, who as a member of the Boston Red Sox was traded before the 1986 season to the New York Mets, got the win after pitching a scoreless 33rd inning?
6. Which former Red Sox second baseman, who was named the MVP of the 1986 American League Championship Series, scored the winning run to end the game on June 23?
7. Whose bases-loaded single to left field scored Barrett to win the game?
8. The PawSox were managed by which future Red Sox manager?
9. Which three former PawSox players are in both the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., and the PawSox Hall of Fame?
10. Name the owner of the PawSox who turned the franchise around in the mid-70s.

The answers
1. Major League baseball players, for the first time in history, struck during the season on June 10, and with no end in sight to the strike two weeks later, the Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings were at the epicenter of the baseball world on the evening of June 23.
2. Cal Ripken for Rochester, then a Baltimore Oriole affiliate, and Wade Boggs of the Red Sox. Although Ripken became a Hall of Fame shortstop, he played third base in the game, as did Boggs.
3. Wade Boggs
4. Cal Ripken
5. Bobby Ojeda
6. Marty Barrett
7. Dave Koza
8. Joe Morgan, who was inducted into the PawSox Hall of Fame in 2017.
9. Wade Boggs, Jim Rice and Carlton Fisk. (Boggs and Rice went into the PawSox Hall of Fame in its first year, 2016, and Fisk was inducted in 2017.)
10. Ben Mondor, who's enshrined in both the International League and PawSox Halls of Fame.

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