An 18-inning baseball game which lasts more than four hours is quite unusual, but when the pitchers on both teams throw a combined 501 pitches it takes on legendary status.
Jesuit (New Orleans, La.) outlasted
Archbishop Rummel (Metairie, La.) 2-1 thanks to an iron-man pitching performance by
Emerson Gibbs. The Tulane University recruit pitched the first 15 innings, allowing one run on six hits, walking one and striking out 13. He retired 21 straight batters during one stretch and threw a total of 193 pitches. Andrew Mitchell got the win with three innings of scoreless relief.
LSU signee Mitch Seward pitched the first 10 innings for Rummel. He allowed one run on two hits, walked three and struck out 10. He threw 154 pitches. Andrew Papadopoulos pitched the final 7 2/3 innings. He allowed just four hits and struck out seven, but was the losing pitcher when Spencer Miller singled home Matthieu Robert in the 18th inning.
