What do you get when you combine the team owning the most anemic offense in MLB with the team ranked first in earned run average? The New York Mets' 3-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday, which needed 18 innings to determine a winner.
According to USA Today's Bob Nightengale, the game took just a little under six hours from start to finish.
The Mets and Cardinals fell one inning short of matching the longest game in 2015. The Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees, 6-5, in 19 innings back in April.