{"id":9137,"date":"2014-10-05T00:14:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T04:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9137"},"modified":"2014-10-05T00:19:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T04:19:43","slug":"giants-win-longest-postseason-game-tanner-roark-gets-birthday-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/10\/05\/giants-win-longest-postseason-game-tanner-roark-gets-birthday-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants win longest postseason game, Tanner Roark gets birthday loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/brandonbelt.jpg\" alt=\"brandonbelt\" width=\"594\" height=\"394\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9138\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/brandonbelt.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/brandonbelt-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe San Francisco Giants and Washington Nationals engaged in an 18-inning game on Saturday night that set records for being the longest post season game ever. The game latest a record 6 hours and 23 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Belt would hit a home run in the top of the 18th inning to give the Giants their first lead of the game at 2-1 off of Nationals reliever Tanner Roark.<\/p>\n<p>The game ended past midnight giving Roark, now 28, the dreaded birthday loss.<\/p>\n<p>With Madison Bumgarner on the mound for the Giants in Game 3 the Nationals are in a tough spot down 2-0. Bumgarner threw a complete game shutout against Pittsburgh to earn the Giants their playoff birth. <\/p>\n<p>The previous longest post season game occurred in 2005 when the Houston Astros defeated the Atlanta Braves. This game was 33 minutes longer than that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Giants and Washington Nationals engaged in an 18-inning game on Saturday night that set records for being the longest post season game ever. The game latest a record 6 hours and 23 minutes. Brandon Belt would hit a home run in the top of the 18th inning to give the Giants their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,139,850,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-san-francisco-giants","11":"tag-tanner-roark","12":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9140,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions\/9140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9137"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}