Game Delays

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This weekend NASCAR began a race on Sunday, red-flagged the race due to weather and has since had to postpone and reschedule the race twice with the series telling teams they will stay in Texas until Thursday if they have to. This got me wondering, what is the longest a baseball game has been delayed?

The conventional answer is 7 hours, 23 minutes on Aug. 12, 1990 in Chicago. But what counts as the longest delayed game if you include postponements? NASCAR's record in this regard came when they finished a race two week s after starting it.. The MLB record for postponements may have been set this year with the Cardinals missing 19 straight due to COVID-19, but these don't truly count in the same way since the games were never started. The rules of the MLB prevent regular season games from being stopped and restarted on a different date

If none of the previous scenarios apply, the game cannot be deemed official. The umpire crew chief declares "No Game," and a make-up of the game is scheduled for a future date unless it is not feasible. ~Wikipedia

so this scenario could only happen in the post-season and only after 2008

In the Major League Baseball postseason, regardless of inning, all games stopped at any time for weather or power outages are considered suspended and continued from the point of stoppage when play resumes, no matter if the game has not reached the requirements above.[4] This rule was put into place as a result of Game 5 of the 2008 World Series, which was the first postseason game in history to be suspended and resumed from the point of suspension. Prior to the 2009 postseason, a playoff game had to have at least five innings completed in order to be suspendable; a playoff game stopped prior to that point had to be started over. An example was Game 1 of the 1982 National League Championship Series, which reached the top of the fifth inning, but had to be restarted from scratch the next day. ~Wikipedia

Except, regular season games have been resumed later under special circumstances. The longest of which I could find (on this wiki page) was a more than three month delay in 1986 between the Pirates and the Cubs. The lack of lights in Wrigley field caused play to be suspended after 13 innings on April 20th. Play was resumed on August 11th. Since the game was scored as having taken place on April 20th, and Barry Bonds debuted on May 30th, when he pinch hit in the August 11th resumption he was scored as having played before his debut causing some sources to claim that he debuted on the 20th of April 1986.

Let me know if you find a longer delayed baseball game or know of any other interesting game delay stories.