After five hours and 28 minutes of baseball, the San Francisco Giants finally beat the Cincinnati Reds 3-2 on a Buster Posey walk-off dong in the 17th inning.
Posey cranked a Robert Stephenson pitch 431 feet, good for his longest homer in the Statcast era. And Posey’s “finally, this stupid game is over after I just had to catch 17 freakin’ innings” reaction may have been as great as the homer:
Buster Posey just caught 17 innings worth of baseball and ended it with a boss mode HR. pic.twitter.com/zgs2fwMfcx
— Justin Russo (@FlyByKnite) May 13, 2017
Buster Posey wanted to go to sleep pic.twitter.com/iDCDFEy8e2
— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) May 13, 2017
From the AP, a great photo of Posey's walk-off celebration: pic.twitter.com/UzQEh7quQ1
— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) May 13, 2017
Until Posey’s homer, the most interesting part of the game — aside from just how long it was of course — was how many seagulls there were at AT&T Park.
Check it out in the 13th inning:
The 14th inning:
what seagulls pic.twitter.com/um49MzR5vi
— Avi Miller 🟦 (@AviMiIIer) May 13, 2017
And really out of control in the 16th inning:
Goodbye Denard Span, you belong to the seagulls now. pic.twitter.com/uz2v9A4bLe
— Matt Burnell (@mdburnell) May 13, 2017
There is no question the sea gulls now out-number #SFGiants fans at #ATTPark in the 16th inning! Save yourself! pic.twitter.com/5DHc3BHv0U
— McCovey Cove DAVE (@mccoveycovedave) May 13, 2017
Cool, this game has gone on so long that the seagulls have turned into black clouds of soul-eating death pic.twitter.com/EvvEa6NWjC
— mina (@meanadone) May 13, 2017
all the seagulls are actually killing me im giggling in my room alone at 3am #weirdbaseball pic.twitter.com/IOu65k0mP5
— грустная сука 🏒 (@supportmainIRL) May 13, 2017
The game ended at 12:45 AM, and these teams have to play each other again on Saturday at 1:05 PM.
[NBC Sports Bay Area]
