1989: Rick Dempsey home run beat Montreal 1-0 after 22 innings

On this day in 1989, Rick Dempsey hit a 22nd inning HR to give the Dodgers a 1-0 victory over the Montreal Expos.

The game lasted 6 hours and 14 minutes.   Actually, that’s rather quick considering that they played the equivalent of 2 games and 4 innings.

Dempsey came in for Mike Sciocia.  He batted 5 times and hit the winning HR.

This is from The LA Times:   

At 1:09 a.m. (EDT) Thursday, Rick Dempsey swung at Dennis Martinez’s hanging curveball. 
Seconds later, it went over the left-field fence.
Dempsey stared at it, shook his head, then began to slowly round the bases.
After getting 19 hits without a run–a major league record if they had been shut out–Dempsey’s home run gave them a 1-0 victory over the Montreal Expos in front of 21,742 at Olympic Stadium.
The 22 innings matched the Dodgers’ 5-4 loss on June 3 in Houston as the longest in Los Angeles franchise history.

We remember Dempsey from his days with the Orioles, and the 1979 and 1983 World Series.   In fact, Dempsey was the 1983 World Series MVP.   He also caught the last out of the Dodgers’ 1988 sweep of the Oakland A’s.

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