MLB commissioner Rob Manfred. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
The childhood experience that would cement my fanhood for a team was largely a non non-consequential baseball game played in mid-April 2010 between two non-playoff bound teams. It lasted nearly seven hours and featured just three total runs, two position players on the mound and one starting pitcher in left field. And in the end, my hometown team, the St. Louis Cardinals, lost 2-1 to the New York Mets.
As of 2017, the 20-inning contest was the eighth-longest game in MLB history at 6 hours and 53 minutes.