12 is the highest number of innings in an east asian professional league baseball game.
highest number of innings in an east asian professional league baseball game?
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the east asian professional leagues, npb, kbo, and cpbl have a 12-inning limit before the game is declared a draw.





























additionally, npb games have a total time limit of three and a half hours during the regular season before being counted as a tie. it is also 12 in postseason play, and the last game is completely replayed if drawn, leading to seven-game series that can go on for eight games. there are no limits on the number of innings in the eighth game of the japan series.
extra innings
baseball and softball are unique among the popular north american team sports in that they do not use a game clock. however, if the regulation number of innings are complete (normally nine in baseball and seven in softball) and the score is even, extra innings are played to determine a winner. complete innings are played, so if a team scores in the top half of the inning, the other team has the chance to play the bottom half of the inning; they will extend the game by tying the score again and win if they take the lead before their third out. the longest professional baseball game ever played, a 1981 minor league baseball game between the pawtucket red sox and the rochester red wings required 33 innings and over eight hours to complete. the red wings had scored in the top half of the 21st inning, but pawtucket tied the game in the bottom half, extending the game.
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