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American Baseball Brings a Wild Show to London

Associated Press

   Rest assured, British fans: Most baseball games are not like the one
   played Saturday in London, not even the crazy ones between the New York
   Yankees and Boston Red Sox.

   Each team scored six runs in a first inning that lasted nearly an hour,
   with Aaron Hicks hitting the first European homer. Brett Gardner had a
   tiebreaking, two-run drive in the third, Aaron Judge went deep to cap a
   six-run fourth and the Yankees outlasted their rivals 17-13 in a game
   that stretched for 4 hours, 42 minutes -- 3 minutes shy of the record
   for a nine-inning game.

   "Well, cricket takes like all weekend to play, right? So, I'm sure a
   lot of people are used to it,'' Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. ``We
   should remind them there's not 30 runs every game.''