Japanese baseball has been known for long, drawn-out games, and it is rare when you see a final score accomplished in less than three hours of play.
A running joke's punch line among foreign players chatting with each other prior to a game is, "Let's see if we can keep it under 3 1/2 tonight."
Usually they cannot.
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