Oddities At The Ballpark.

Nine Strangest Major League Games

In 1984, the Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago White Sox battled over eight hours and six minutes to settle a 25-inning marathon

BASEBALL PROBABLY IS A funny game only if you're on the winning team, but it's a sure bet that it can be a strange one no matter what the final outcome of the contest

No one can possibly be certain which one of the many thousands of major league games played since the National League's first in 1876 has been the strangest, but few would dispute that there's no shortage of candidates for such a designation.

Chances are that Bob Brenly, now manager of the Arizona Diamond-backs, might pick the game on September 14, 1986, in which he was playing third base rather than his usual catching position for the San Francisco Giants.

Brenly tied a major league record for third basemen with four errors in the fourth inning, allowing the Atlanta Braves to score four runs. Undaunted, he hit a solo home run in the fifth inning, then singled in two runs in the seventh. And in the bottom of the ninth he hit another home run to win the game 7-6.

Giants manager Roger Craig remarked of Brenly's Jekyll and Hyde performance, "This man deserves Comeback Player of the Year for this game alone."