LOS ANGELES — In the 15th inning, Rich Hill ate a sandwich. The longest game in the 114-year history of the MLB postseason had just entered its seventh hour and there was no end in sight.
Game 3 of the World Series took seven hours and 20 minutes, 18 innings, 561 pitches, 131 plate appearances, somewhere north of 300 baseballs, a seventh- and a 14th-inning stretch, and at least a few days off the life of everyone who stuck it out. It took enough time to fly from Boston to Los Angeles, more time than the Yankees’ entire four-game sweep of the Reds in the 1939 Fall Classic (7:05).