Yes, I agree it seemed like that and even moreso at certain points. They made it look almost routine and easy for a match to make it as long as that one did. However, if it really was so easy then surely there would have been a match before that which would have come even remotely close to that one. I believe the longest previous 5th set was 28-26 or something like that but I couldn't find it. There was a 2nd set in a doubles match in 1973 that went 39-37 back when they didn't have the tie-breaker and any set could just keep going game after game like that.

I found another fun one when I was looking up that tennis stuff. This is from the longest ever woman's match. LOL at a single freaking point lasting 29 minutes. My God...that's insane. 643 straight shots without an unforced error or either player being able to hit a freaking winner?

LOL. This is what happens when you can't hit the ball hard.

Correction: I guess it was 642 straight shots without an unforced error or a winner. The 643rd shot much have been an actual unforced error or a winner. What a breakthrough!

Wonder what inspired one of the participants to go all crazy like that and try to end the misery. Guess they just decided the time was right to sneak one past. The previous 29 minutes were clearly designed to lull the other player into a false sense of security.

Lol that's idiotic, just risk it and try to hit a winner.

Every World Series game after Game 6 of the 1948 Series (Cleveland 4 - Boston Braves 3) until Game 2 of the 1957 World Series (Milwaukee 4 - NY Yankees 2) was won by a team from New York. Every other World Series in between had either been all New York, or a sweep by the NY team ('50 and '54).

ERRRR. Usain Bolts world record run of 9.69 with his shoelace untied while beating his chest and looking around in the last 40m.

Cincinnati having 17 of the first 18 batters reach to start a baseball game.

Fernando Tatis hitting 2 grand slams in the same inning off the same pitcher

Football, maybe the greatest striker ever, Gerd Müller (born '45):

Scored 180 goals in the season of 62/63 for his local youth team (Nördlingen).
Season 63/64, 46 goals / 33 caps for Nördlingen too, now for the first team.
64-79, 398 goals / 453 caps for Bayern Munich
79-81, 40 goals / 80 caps for Ft Lauderdale Strikers
82/83, 33 goals / 42 caps for Smiths Brothers Lounge

European club games for Bayern Munich - 66 goals / 74 caps

National team - 68 goals / 62 caps


Naturally, he has loads of records for top scoring in leagues and cups, eg most goals in a season of the German Bundesliga, at 40 in 70/71.

Overall 1,455 goals in 1,204 games (regulars and friendlies).

Jeff Maggert won the 2006 FedEx St. Jude Classic shooting a -9 271 and winning 936k

Tom Pennice Jr., the second place finisher, was three strokes back

but here's the catch

Fred Funk finished 16th

Heard this during the Rockies/Marlins game the other day... The Florida Marlins have won every playoff series they've ever appeared in.

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More from the ultimate nitty tennis match:

I mean....6:22 for a 2 set match? 1:47 for the last 24 freaking points? Incredible.


Found this fun one too:

this strikes me as a record that may never be tied or broken. I'll never understand how Chan Ho Park isn't yanked. I mean hmmm you gave up a grand slam, couldn't get 3 outs between the next 8 batters and the bases are loaded again for the same batter that just got a grand slam off of you.

Might actually be as unbreakable as the pitcher with two consecutive no-hitters.

I think this is likely to happen again, though especially given the explosion of them this year.

You think someone is going to throw 3 straight no-hitters?

He said "again."

Almost certainly somebody will throw consecutive no-hitters again. Just have to think it's possible.

The pitcher was Johnny Van Der Meer of Cincinnati by the way.

I see. Been drinking.

How 'bout that Undertaker and his 18-0 record at Wrestlemania?

Stone Cold doing a stone cold stunner on all 4 mcmahons in like 5 mins is a sicker stat imo

Obvious superuser, reported for botaments.


Not really, because the averages of all the other batsmen of his time, from nos. 1-11, would still form a very similar Normal distribution to that of modern day batsmen. He is still a ridiculous outlier. The other batting greats from his era, such as WR Hammond and GA Headley, or going back a little further, JB Hobbs and H Sutcliffe, would be near the top of the tree now, but still only on a par with the leading players of the modern game.

Sure, fielding techniques were not so good then as they are now, meaning slightly easier to make twos and threes, and also the lbw law back then was more in favour of the batsman.

But also the boundaries were bigger, and the bats were inferior. Also, he would have played had to face quality spin bowling on sticky wickets, which is why spinners nowadays don't have the same impact that their predecessors had in the days of uncovered pitches.

Furthermore, the Don would have gone out to bat in just a baggy green and pimpled gloves; no helmets, or superduper gloves in those days. Yet the likes of Larwood and Voce were still bowling at 90+ mph, as fast as any West Indian quick from the 70s and 80s, as fast as a Brett Lee or a Shoaib Akhtar now. And the ball was the same 5½ oz of hard cork and leather as it is now. You couldn't risk getting hit on the head by a bouncer or you'd end up with a no teeth, or a fractured skull, while a blow on the hand would have mean broken fingers for certain.

And let's not forget that the no ball law during the 20's and 30's was judged on the bowler's back foot, so allowing bowlers to get much closer to the batsman at the moment of delivery than they can now.

On balance, most cricket commentators would agree that the various changes in the laws and equipment means the game is probably more in favour of the batsman now, making it all the more remarkable that Bradman's mark still remains wholly unchallenged. No other sportsman is quite so extreme as him.

Is adding the qualifier "off the same pitcher" really necessary for the Tatis "record"?

Where do the qualifiers stop? Will another hitter hit 2 grand slams in the same inning off the same pitcher ON JUNE 17TH???" again?

I don't think Park should be included in the "record".

Just to put this in perspective, that's like winning 18 straight Super Bowls!

prohorn - Park's record of allowing two grand slams to the same batter in the same inning is even more impressive than Tatis' record of hitting two in the same inning. The post clearly explained how amazing it is that a pitcher could still be in the game to allow that second grand slam.

Since they were the same thing and happened at the same time it's okay to mention them together. Accomplishing the feat on June 17th doesn't make it any more remarkable. But I can see a batter potentially hitting 2 GS's in the same inning again. I find it unlikely that the same pitcher would allow two GS's to the same batter though. It's pretty tough for a pitcher simply to allow two GS's in the same inning period...much less to the same freaking guy.