Japanese high school game spans four days and 50 innings

I put this here because I couldn't think of anyway else to put it.

This is nuts. Both pitchers went the distance too!

In a pitching duel to end all pitching duels, Chukyo High School and Sotoku High School were held scoreless for days ? literally ? during a semifinal matchup at the 59th National High School Rubber Baseball Tournament in Japan.

It wasn't until the 50th inning ? which took place on Sunday morning, four days after the game had started ? that Chukyo finally broke through for three runs. Fortunately for them, and pretty much everyone involved, that would hold up, allowing them to advance to the finals later on Sunday.

https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/japanese-high-school-game-spans-four-days-and-50-innings-171615112.html

Awesome. Was there a tea interval? Apparently they are expecting baseball to go seriously retro and are grooming young arms to go 700 pitches a start.

Wonder if we could trade Jiminez for one of them. :wedge:

786 total pitches in 4 days. Wow, just wow.