17 facts for 17 innings: LA outlasts Padres

After needing 11 innings to decide Saturday’s game, the Padres and Dodgers decided they just couldn’t say goodbye in the series finale Sunday at Petco Park.

A game that started in bright sunshine at 1:43 p.m. PT finished as the stadium lights kicked on. Even the outfield sprinklers, rightfully figuring that the game was well expired, decided to go off. When it was all said and done, 17 innings worth of baseball — almost an entire extra game — had been put up on the scoreboard.

The Padres were hoping to become the first team to enjoy three straight walk-off wins against the same team since the Cardinals swept the Pirates in such fashion last May. But after a combined 23 men were left on base by the two teams, the Dodgers finally got the last laugh with a four-run explosion in inning 17 for the hard-earned 9-5 victory:

Here are 17 facts and figures from the marathon affair:

• Sunday’s game totaled five hours and 47 minutes. It was the fourth-longest game in Dodgers franchise history in terms of elapsed time, dating back to 1913. It’s also the fifth-longest game in Padres franchise history, which dates back to 1969.

• The 347 total minutes of today’s game equaled more than the combined length of the two most recent no-hitters, thrown by Jake Arrieta and Max Scherzer. Those two performances lasted a combined 310 minutes.

• The Dodgers hold the record for the longest game (by innings) in Major League history. The Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves played to a 1-1 tie in 26 innings …

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