If you like extra innings in low-scoring Major League Baseball contests that don't count in the standings and you may only see your favorite player for an at-bat or two - the 79th annual Midsummer Classic
was your kind of game.
The Yankees hosted the 2008 All Star game at the old stadium and the locals went home happy after nearly five hours when the American League beat the National League 4-3 in 15 innings.
A night after winning the Home Run Derby, the Minnesota Twins' Justin Morneau slid into home with the winning run on a sacrifice fly by Michael Young of the Texas Rangers.
The teams were scoreless through four innings. The National League took a 2-0 lead into the bottom of the 7th when the ALers tied it on a 2-run homer by J.D. Drew of the Boston Red Sox. Each team scored a run in the 8th and that was it until Young's sacrifice won it seven innings later.
Drew was named Most Valuable Player.
The game tied the 1967 All Star contest as the longest in innings - and is still the longest by time at 4 hours and 50 minutes. It will almost certainly stay that way as extra-innings are no more in All Star Games, replaced instead by a Home Run Derby-style swing-off as of 2022.
This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Look back at the 2008 Major League All-Star Game - the longest ever
