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Detroit Tigers, Miami Marlins Play Historically Fast Extra-Inning Game on Tuesday Night

The Miami Marlins beat the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night, 1-0, at Comerica Park. The game went 10 innings and was played in just over two hours, which makes it the second fastest extra-inning game in the last 40 years.

Brady Farkas

May 8, 2024; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Reese Olson (45) throws a pitch
May 8, 2024; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Reese Olson (45) throws a pitch / Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports
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The Miami Marlins beat the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night, 1-0, at Comerica Park. The game went 10 innings and was won in the top of the tenth when Jesus Sanchez brought in the only run of the game.

The win moved the reeling Marlins to just 12-32 on the year while the loss dropped Detroit to an even .500 at 21-21.

Because the game featured only one run and eight total hits, it was played at a ridiculously brisk pace of 2 hours and 9 minutes, which made it the second-fastest extra-inning game of the last 40 years, according to Sarah Langs of MLB.com:

at 2 hours & 9 minutes, Marlins/Tigers was the 2nd-fastest extra-inning game in MLB in the last 40 seasons, behind only:

9/6/03 DET at TOR, 2 hours & 3 minutes

Roy Halladay (whose birthday is today) had a 10 IP CG, 3 H
TOR won 1-0 on a Bobby Kielty walk-off single off Fernando Rodney

The league made a point before the 2023 season to get games going faster and played with more pace. Instituting the pitch clock did this and fans have largely been happy with better pace of play, however the league has to be concerned about the lack of overall offense, which also contributed this to low time of game.

This stat was posted on "X" on Monday from @CodifyBaseball, but it underscores the issue right now:

15 years ago, the MLB batting average was .262.
The 2024 Astros are hitting .262 and that leads MLB.

The Marlins and Tigers will play again on Wednesday afternoon at 1:10 p.m. ET.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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