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In the span of 29 hours and 36 minutes between 7:05 p.m. Monday and 11:41 p.m. Tuesday, the IronPigs played 31 innings of baseball in two cities, with an aggregate playing time of 9 hours, 27 minutes.

Their pitches threw 463 pitches, their hitters went to the batter's box 129 times.

In between the two games the team spent roughly eight hours traveling on three bus rides and two airline flights for a total of 675 air miles.

And in the end, all they have to show for their troubles is a win and a loss on their record.

One night after winning at Gwinnett in the longest game (15 innings) in franchise history, Lehigh Valley broke that record by falling to visiting Louisville 2-1 in 16 innings at Coca-Cola Park before a quarter or so of the announced crowd of 7,098 on a cold, raw night.

And beginning with tonight's 7:05 p.m. game with the Bats they face another 18 innings -- at least -- in the next 20 hours.

''I don't know what we'll do,'' IronPigs manager Dave Huppert said, looking at his pitching situation. ''We're strapped right now; we'll just have to figure something out.''

''Hopefully everybody will get a good night's rest tonight, then we'll come out and take infield and batting practice, get our work in and hopefully everybody will be ready to go,'' center fielder Rich Thompson said.

Chris Burke's one-out triple and Zach Cozart's single through a drawn-in infield produced the winning run for the Bats (16-23) against Oscar Villarreal (0-1), who had given up four runs in the ninth inning Monday that tied the game.

Burke lined a shot to the wall in right center between Thompson and John Mayberry Jr. Mayberry quickly got the ball to Brian Bocock, but the shortstop, with Burke running in front of him, had to throw around the runner, forcing third baseman Cody Ransom to come off the bag enough to allow Burke to get in safely ahead of the lunging tag.

Cozart followed with a line drive just out of the reach of a lunging Bocock.

''He was running in a line directly in front of Cody; Bocock got the ball and you couldn't see Cody behind [Burke],'' Thompson said. ''He had no where to throw.''

The IronPigs had seven of their nine hits in extra innings and put a runner in scoring position five times but couldn't score.

''We never had that easy one, where we had a guy on third base with less than two outs,'' Thompson said. ''We always needed a hit to score him, and we hit some balls hard. We just couldn't get anybody in.''

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