The longest professional Baseball game ever played was a33-inning minor league Baseball affair between the Rochester RedWings and the Pawtucket Red Sox that took place on April 18, 1981,at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The two teams playeddeep into the frigid night with no end in sight. The game beganjust after 8:00 PM local time and continued until 4:07 AM the nextmorning, when it was paused after 32 innings. (The umpire's rulebook was missing the revision that placed a curfew on game length.)On June 23, 65 days later, play resumed. The game was decided afterjust 18 more minutes as Pawtucket's Dave Koza singled off ofRochester's Cliff Speck to drive in Marty Barrett as the winningrun, giving the PawSox a 3-2 victory. The official length of thegame is listed as 8:25, also a record.