Dartmouth Moosehead Dry

Kentville and Yarmouth hooked up earlier this year to play a 17 inning tilt that was easily the longest game in innings this year. Thanks to fog and rain, Dartmouth and Truro hooked up for what is probably the longest game by time in the history of the Senior League that was not interupted by other games. The game which began on Sunday at 7:30pm, ended Thursday night at 7:55pm - 96 hours and 25 minutes later. The game was suspended in the bottom of the eighth inning with Truro leading 4-3, after Brad Miller a Brad Miller fly ball became lost in the fog and turned into a triple. Truro had scored the go-ahead run in the top of the inning on a ball that centre-fielder Joel Irvine had lost in the fog. If that controversy was not enough for the game, what ensued once the game was resumed was. Jason Bailey batting with no outs and Miller at third base, picking up the game from the point where it was left on Sunday, was awarded first base on a questionable call of catcher's interference while trying to squeeze the run home. Miller was awarded a free pass home on the play tying the score at four. Mark Weeks promptly added a double of the left field wall to give Dartmouth 5-4 lead. The controvesy arose on the play when the catcher appeared to hit the bat after the batter had made contact with the ball, not before. Trevor Zwaan went to work in the nineth and retired the side in order to pick up the save. Jason Bailey, who pitched the first eight innings, earned his third win of the playoffs. Truro 201 000 010 - 4 4 3 Dartmouth 200 010 02x - 5 9 1 Jeff Fielding, Craig Higgins (2-2) and John Saunders, Jason Hoyt (6); Jason Bailey (3-0), Trevor Zwaan (S,1)(9) and Mark Weeks.