Dodger-Diamondback game used 16 pitchers-Madden

• It's not Joe West's father's game.

Bill Madden: "Good thing Joe West wasn't umpiring the Dodgers-Diamondbacks series last week. Wednesday's 11-inning, 9-7, D-back win,

• took four hours and 57 minutes,

one of the longest and most tedious games ever played. The two managers, Joe Torre and A.J. Hinch, used a total of 16 pitchers (the Dodger arms issued nine walks) in a desperate search for the one guy who didn't have it. As it turned out, none of them did. Then,

• the next night with more imploding bullpens, the two teams went 10 innings,

• taking three hours and 42 minutes to finish their business.

Did somebody say pathetic?"

• from Bill Madden column, NY Daily News, 4/17/10, "Baltimore fans have already given up on Orioles; players given up on Dave Trembley" 'It's a Madd, Madd World'

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