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Daejeon KT-Hanwha DH 2nd Game Resumes After 3 Hours and 24 Minutes, The Longest in History

Due to the cancellation of 85 games, the most ever this season, it was forced to go ahead after a long period of maintenance.

In the second game of the double header between Hanwha Eagles and KT Wiz held at Hanwha Life Eagles Park in Daejeon on the 17th, the longest game in history was suspended and then resumed. casinositeone

In this game, with KT leading 3-1, the game was stopped in the bottom of the 5th inning due to heavy rain pouring down at first base with no hits from Hanwha"s attack.

The referees, who expressed their intention to resume the game if possible, came out to the ground several times and checked the rain conditions under the rain.

Eventually, as the rain gradually subsided, the referee requested ground maintenance to resume the game.

However, it took much more time than expected to renovate the extremely wet ground.

Some fans who were tired of waiting in the stands were also seen leaving.

After lengthy ground maintenance, the game was declared to resume at 9:57 p.m.

It took a whopping 204 minutes after the game was stopped at 6:33 p.m.

Since the launch of the KBO League, there has been no case where a game was suspended for more than 3 hours and then resumed.

The previous longest game suspension occurred for 116 minutes during the Samsung-Binggrae game at Daejeon Stadium on August 15, 1987.

The reason the referees waited for more than three hours on this day to push ahead with the game was because so many games this season were canceled due to rain.

The number of games canceled until the day before was as many as 85, the most ever.

The KBO announced a rescheduled schedule of canceled games on August 29, but since that day, as many as 19 games have been canceled again, causing a major disruption to the entire schedule.