The QT on OT

Great night for baseball if you're a fan of overtime games. Minnestota and Cleveland duked it out before the Twins thumped Riske in the 11th. Florida over Philly 4-3 in a 10 inning groaner. As I type this Pittsburgh and St. Louis are tied in the middle of the 11th inning (awesome game so far!) and Luis Ayala is facing Austin Kearns in the bottom of the 14th for a Cincy-Washington marathon. Wow. Was considering generating some statistics on the most cumulative innings played in an evening, but that might not be too telling in the expansion era. Now I could average it out to see the highest average of innings in any given baseball day, but that's a little to precious and geeky.

For our purposes, I'm more interested in something else: the longest baseball game ever played. Innings-wise, the longest was actually 26, but the game in question was played over a longer period: 8 hours 6 mins, 25 innings. Brewers (during the AL era) squaring off against my beloved Chicago White Sox on May 9, 1984. Interestingly enough, both teams were awful that year with sub-.500 records.

The game was so long that it had to be divided over two consecutive days: 17 innings were played on May 8th before play resumed on May 9th. Harold Baines hit a solo homer off of Chuck Porter in the 25th inning to give the Sox the victory; Tom Seaver was the pitcher of record after pitching a single inning and got the Win. Then he collected a win in the regularly-scheduled game that followed! Awesome. Also a record from that game: Tom Paciorek, a career .282 hitter, entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the 4th and came to the plate 9 times.

Now here's my question: does anyone know what the greatest number of overtime baseball games played in one single day is? Holla.