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Dodgers pulled an all-nighter

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clock.jpgA baseball marathon can bring out the wiseguy in a sportswriter, and such was the case with the 22-inning Rockies-Padres game and Denver Post reporter Troy Renck.


Renck's lead on Thursday night's (and Friday morning's) Rockies victory: "SAN DIEGO -- This wasn't a game. It was a relationship."

The game that ended at 1:21 in the morning in San Diego reminded me of a Dodgers-Cardinals game I covered in 1987 that went until 3:01 a.m. in St. Louis.

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