16 innings.
Billy Pierce started and pitched 16 innings on August 6, 1959 against the Baltimore Orioles in Baltimore. He gave up 11 hits and 1 run, walked 3 batters and struckout 7. The game was called after 18 innings with the score tied at 1.
Click on the "Billy Pierce Longest Outing' link below to see the boxscore of the game.
IP stands for Innings Pitched. It is a pitching statistics that records the amount of innings the pitcher pitched. It can be divided into thirds by the outs that were recorded while the pitcher was still on the mound. For example: Its the 5th inning and there are 2 outs. The pitcher needs to be taken out of the game and is replaced with another pitcher. The number of innings pitched for this game would be 4 2/3. The relief pitcher would then pitch 2 1/3. This would add up to the complete 7 inning game.
A typical baseball game consists of 9 innings. In baseball statistics, "IP" stands for innings pitched, which measures the number of innings a pitcher has played in a game.
You multiply the number of runs the pitcher has given up by the number of innings in the game then divide it by the number of innings the pitcher has pitched
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An IP in baseball stands for innings pitched, which measures how many innings a pitcher has played in a game or season. It is calculated by counting the number of outs a pitcher records, then dividing that number by three to get the total number of innings pitched.
Roy Halladay (PHI) started and pitched 2 scoreless innings. Cliff Lee (PHI) then pitched 1.2 innings and gave up 1 run. Tyler Clippard (WAS) pitched .1 innings and did not give up a run. Clayton Kershaw (LAD) pitched a scoreless inning. Jair Jurrjens (ATL) pitched 1.2 innings of scoreless ball. Craig Kimbrel (ATL) completed .1 innings and did not give up a run. Jonny Venters (ATL) pitched .2 innings of scoreless ball. Heath Bell (SD) then completed .1 innings of scoreless ball. Joel Hanrahan (PIT) pitched .2 innings in the 9th and did not give up a run. Brian Wilson (SF) finished off the AL with .1 innings of scoreless ball.
The most innings pitched by a pitcher in a single game is 26 and is held by Leon Cadore of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Joe Oeschger of the Boston Braves on May 1, 1920. The game went 26 innings and wound up in a 1-1 tie. Both Cadore and Oeschger pitched the entire 26 innings. It is the longest game, innings wise, in MLB history.
In baseball, the abbreviation "IP" stands for Innings Pitched. It represents the number of innings a pitcher has thrown in a game or over a season.
Supposing that all four runs were earned runs and it is a nine inning game, the ERA is 4.5... Earned runs divided by innings pitched multiplied by the the total innings of a standard game (4/8 * 9 = 4.5)
In MLB history, that would be 26 innings pitched by Leon Cadore of the Brooklyn Robins and Joe Oeschger of the Boston Braves on May 1, 1920. The game ended in a 1-1 tie (called due to darkness) and is the longest game, innings wise, in MLB history.