The Blue Jays and Dodgers gave us an absolute classic on Monday night — or, more aptly, Tuesday morning. It took 18 innings to finally decide a winner, with Freddie Freeman’s solo home run coming as a blessing for fans who had been in the stands for over seven hours before they finally got to go home.
The six hour, 39 minute marathon was the longest game in World Series history. An oddity on its own, the game became even more surreal when fans realized it mirrored a viral tweet that mocked Joe Buck exactly 10 years ago to the day.
Not only did the 2015 tweet encapsulate the length of Game 3, but somehow managed to capture the general sense of existential dread about the world right now. The original post was poking fun at Game 1 of the 2015 World Series, when the Mets and Royals went to 14 innings before Kansas City finally won in a little over five hours.
Buck was on the call that Tuesday night, and seemingly brimming with endless joy that the game wouldn’t end — while everyone else just wanted to call it a night. The last guy at the party who didn’t take a hint that everyone was leaving, Buck instead cranked up the music and poured another round for everyone who was already fast asleep, making the original the perfect tweet.
Now it’s happened again. Of course, there’s even more bizarre about what happened in Game 3.
I guess we can now define long-lasting World Series games on the “Paisley-Buck Scale.”
