--- title: World Series Mets Royals: Here Are the Longest Games description: Tuesday's World Series match up between the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals may have felt like it took forever. canonical: https://time.com/4090502/world-series-baseball-history-long-games/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-28T18:38:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:08:30.662Z article:section: History og:title: These Baseball Games Were Even Longer Than Tuesday’s World Series Opener og:description: Some games have taken longer than eight hours og:url: https://time.com/4090502/world-series-baseball-history-long-games/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Baseball Games Were Even Longer Than Tuesday’s World Series Opener twitter:description: Some games have taken longer than eight hours twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Baseball Games Were Even Longer Than Tuesday’s World Series Opener > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Oct 28, 2015 6:38 PM UTC  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Oct 28, 2015 6:38 PM UTC Tuesday’s World Series matchup [between the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals](http://time.com/4090240/baseball-world-series-game-1-mets-royals/) may have felt like it took forever. But the game, which lasted 5 hours and 9 minutes played over 14 innings, doesn’t come close to cracking the list of the longest Major League Baseball games on record. A matchup between the Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago White Sox in May 1984 takes the crown as the[ longest game on record](http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2015/04/14/the-10-longest-games-in-major-league-baseball-history/2/), lasting eight hours and six minutes over 25 innings, according to reports citing Elias Sports Bureau. The Brewers emerged victorious with a final score of 6 to 7. Last night’s game would have needed to take more than 6 hours and 30 minutes to crack the top 10. Tuesday’s Mets vs. Royals contest ranks much closer to the top of the list when only considering World Series games. Only two other such games have lasted as long in terms of innings, including one game where Babe Ruth pitched all 14 innings for the Red Sox. The other 14-inning game came in a 2005 matchup between the Chicago White Sox and the Houston Astros. That game, which lasted 5 hours and 41 minutes, also happens to be the longest World Series matchup in terms of game time. Tuesday’s game does have the distinction of being the longest World Series opener in MLB history. All of these long MLB games are impressive, but the longest professional baseball game wasn’t a MLB game at all. The Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings, Triple-A affiliates of the Boston Red Sox and the Orioles, respectively, [played](http://www.si.com/mlb/2015/02/23/pawtucket-red-sox-triple-rhode-island-longest-game) a 33-inning game in 1981\. 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