“It feels worse than one loss, but it’s only one”

"When it was over, when the Boston Red Sox had deftly turned a double play to end a game that had begun more than seven hours earlier, Yankee Stadium was empty enough to hear their celebratory shouts as players and coaches emptied out of the dugout."

The Red Sox beat the Yankees, 6-5, in 19 innings, but this baseball game that began just after 7 on Friday night and finished Saturday at 2:13 a.m. felt instead like a test of endurance.

Three times the Yankees scored in their last at-bats to keep the game alive...

Mark Teixeira, who was 34 when it began, had turned 35 by the time it was over.

As if the game were not already long enough, it was delayed in the 12th inning when nine banks of lights went out at the stadium, leaving the field dimly lit. It took 16 minutes for the lights to regenerate and for play to resume. The Yankees said the outage had been caused by a power surge through the stadium...

Fans used their cellphones for light

The teams were scheduled to play again at 1 p.m. Saturday, less than 11 hours after this one ended.

Boston had, during the early going, a ton of opportunities to put the game beyond a one run reach, but they wouldn't. I likened the one run back and forth to descriptions of the mythical Chinese water torture. Except I was determined to watch until the bitter end, no matter what. I was glad I did.