It was a wild and wacky Saturday of baseball. The longest baseball game ever played was nearly erased from the record books, and Ubaldo Jimenez fired the first no-hitter in Colorado Rockies history.
The Mets and Cardinals locked horns in a battle that went 20 innings, the first 18 of which were remarkably scoreless. The game challenged the Major League record for longest game ever, a 26-inning affair between the Brooklyn Robins and Boston Braves in 1920 (according to www.newsdial.com), but was still 13 innings short of the longest professional baseball game, a 33-inning battle that featured the Pawtucket Red Sox in the 1980s.
Meanwhile, Jimenez carved out a spot in Major League and Rockies history, blanking the Atlanta Braves, 4-0. He was far from perfect - he handed out six walks, all of them before the sixth inning - but he whiffed seven Braves and fired a fastball that topped out at 100 miles per hour on the radar gun.
Jimenez has emerged over the last few seasons as a solid hurler for the Rockies, though he's been plagued a bit by inconsistency. But Saturday he was on target, firing the first no-hitter of the Major League season and the first since Mark Buehrle's perfect game last July, according to ESPN.com.
Add to the wild day of baseball the fact that the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays had to finish a suspended game from Friday night before beginning their regularly scheduled battle Saturday, and it was a truly bizarre day on the diamond.
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