Baseball is such a strange phenomenon. To begin with, there’s no clock and no limit to the number of innings that can be played to conclude a game. At least theoretically, this places the game beyond the bounds of time.
For those who aren’t hardcore fans, the notion of an endless baseball game probably conjures up visions of Dante’s nine innings of-Hell. (Surely it’s just a coincidence that a typical game is nine innings and that there are nine Circles of Hell.)
Even as a hardball fanatic, I admit to not having the stamina for something like the Kansas City Royals record-holder: An 18-inning, six-and-a-half hour affair against the Texas Rangers, in 1991.