2-MINUTE DRILL

RANK & FILE A LINEUP OF SPORTS TIDBITS

WORKING OVERTIME

Aaron Hicks scored on Starlin Castro’s grounder in the 18th inning, and the rolling Yankees beat the Chicago Cubs, 5-4, early Monday morning in the majors’ longest interleague game ever by innings. The teams combined for a major league-record 48 strikeouts in baseball’s longest game of the season by innings, wrapping up in a tidy 6 hours, 5 minutes, and ending after 1 a.m. Here are some of the longest games by innings: 26 innings — Brooklyn Dodgers 1, Boston Braves 1 (May 1, 1920) 25 innings — St. Louis Cardinals 4, New York Mets 3 (Sept. 11, 1974) Chicago White Sox 7, Milwaukee Brewers 6 (May 8, 1984) 24 innings — Philadelphia A’s 4, Boston Red Sox 1 (Sept. 1, 1906), Detroit Tigers 1, Philadelphia A’s 1 (July 21, 1945), Houston Astros 1, New York Mets (April 15, 1968) 23 innings — Boston Braves 2, Brooklyn Dodgers 2 (June 27, 1939), Giants 8, New York Mets 6 (May 31, 1964) 22 innings — Brooklyn Dodgers 6, Pittsburgh Pirates 5 (Aug. 22, 1917), Chicago Cubs 4, Boston Braves 3 (May 17, 1927), New York Yankees 9, Detroit Tigers 7 (June 24, 1962), Washington Senators 6, Chicago White Sox 5, (June 12, 1967), Milwaukee Brewers 4, Minnesota Twins 3, (May 12, 1972), Houston Astros 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 4, (June 3, 1989), Los Angeles Dodgers 1, Montreal Expos 0 (Aug. 23, 1989), Minnesota Twins 5, Cleveland Indians 4 (Aug. 31, 1993), Colorado Rockies 2, San Diego Padres 1 (April 17, 2008)