Sentence examples for innings long from inspiring English sources

In the proposed system, the game would be 14 innings long and the score from 7 randomly selected innings would determine the winner.

"If a game was three or four innings long, I'd be Cy Young, Wilsonn said.

Batting and fielding strategy are similar, but softball is played on a much smaller area, and a game is only seven innings long.

Leiter persevered through seven strong innings, long enough for the Mets to rally for the lead, and handed a one-run advantage to the bullpen.

The Mets already played a 15-inning game on April 29 and a 20-inning one on June 8 — both against the Miami Marlins — and have now played three games at least 15 innings long during a season for the first time since 1973.

Miguel Tejada's solo homer in the sixth ended Lowe's scoreless streak at 29 2/3 innings, longest in the majors since Greg Maddux's 39 1/3 innings in September 2000.

Fassero (4-1) allowed three runs and nine hits in six innings in his longest start of the season.

They finished the season with a 16-game winning streak in extra innings, the longest streak in the majors since the 1949 Cleveland Indians.

They started off slowly tonight against Tyler Green, although both their hits in the first four innings were long home runs.

Armas (3-5) allowed five hits in seven innings, his longest outing of the season, as he outdueled the Dodgers Montreal-bornn Gagne.

Schmidt (2-1) walked five and struck out three in six innings, his longest start since going six innings for the Dodgers at San Diego on June 5, 2007.