A ten-hour and five-minute doubleheader between the Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Athletics sets a major league record for the longest ever

On June 17 1967 — A ten-hour and five-minute doubleheader between the Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Athletics sets a major league record for the longest ever. The first game includes a rain delay, and the second goes 19 innings before a Dave Duncan home run gives the Athletics a 6 – 5 victory. Detroit wins the opener, 7 – 6.

Dave Duncan slammed a lead off home run reliefer Mike Marshall in the 19th inning Sunday morning to lift the Kansas City Athletics to a 6-5 victory over the Detroit Tigers and split in an American League doubleheader which lasted 10 hours and five minutes. The length of the game was an American League record. The A’s scored in the 15lh when second baseman Jerry Lumpe fumbled a grounder and then threw low to first, allowing a runner to score from second, but Mickey Stanley tied the game when Detroit came to bat with his second homer of the season. John Donaldson’s two – run double in the sixth inning, gave Kansas City a 4-2 lead. Homers by Phil Roof and Rick Monday boosted the athletic cause in the second game. Detroit scored in the second inning on a walk to Bill Freehan, a forceout, and Stanley’s single. The Tigers got another in the third on Willie Horton’s 10th homer. The third Detroit run came in the fourth on doubles by Jim Price and Ray Oyler. In the sixth, Reggie Jackson and Ramon Webster singled. Jim Gosger drew a pass and Donaldson cracked his double. In the opener, pinch-hitter Bill Heath hit a two-out, bases-loaded single to drive in Jim Northrup with the winning run in the ninth inning Saturday and give the Detroit Tigers a 7-6 victory. Northrup, who had been sidelined for a week with a case of the mumps, singled off loser Diego Segui to open the ninth inning. Northrup had replaced Willie Horton in left field in the seventh inning. After Bill Freehan popped up. Norm Cash walked and Mickey Stanley fanned for the second out. Jerry Lumpe walked to load the bases and Heath lined Segui’s first pitch into right field to decide it. The A’s had tied the game 6-f with two runs in the ninth inning. Trailing 4-2, the Tigers scored three runs without a hit in the sixth inning to take a 5-4 lead. Four walks and second baseman John Donaldson’s wild throw on an attempted double play scored the runs. Stanley singled in a seventh-inning run to put the Tigers ahead 6-4 before the A’s tied it. Fred Gladding, the fifth Tiger pitcher, hurled to just one batted and got the victory.