Clint Fagan's Record 712-Pitch, 7:06 Game; 100% 18th QOC

HP Umpire Clint Fagan squatted for 712 pitches over seven hours and six minutes during Saturday night's 18-inning Diamondbacks-Phillies game, the longest game in time of the season and the lengthiest since Houston-Los Angeles on June 3, 1989, which lasted seven hours and 14 minutes, encompassing 643 pitches. Fagan's 18th inning strike zone was called at 100% accuracy, which is an MLB umpiring record.

The previous 2013 record for longest game was Kerwin Danley's 597-pitch Angels-A's game on April 29. That game lasted just six hours and 32 minutes and featured 372 strikes (62.3%).

PFX: Fagan called the 18th inning at 100% accuracy (32 callable pitches)

With an average MLB umpire squatting for 295 pitches per game, Fagan called the equivalent of nearly two-and-a-half regulation ballgames, though the game lasted just 18 innings. Of his 643 pitches seen, 405 were strikes (63.0%); the game also featured 28 total walks, six of them intentional (Arizona's Paul Goldschmidt and Philadelphia's Cody Asche were IBB'd twice each).

Maligned by Phillies fans for allegedly "squeezing" regular right fielder Casper Wells during his pitching assignment in the top of the 18th inning, Pitch f/x confirms that Clint Fagan finished strong, carrying an accuracy rating of 100 percent through the final inning of play (32 Correct Ball/Strike Calls out of 32 Callable Pitches = 100%). This figure includes both the top and bottom halves of the frame.

Therefore, it is a logically indisputable fact that Fagan has at the least tied, if not set, the MLB record for highest accuracy by a home plate umpire during an 18th inning.

Wrap: Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Philadelphia Phillies, 8/25/13