The disappointment of losing 1-0 in sixteen innings to the Red Sox left several Rays saying Sunday’s and Monday’s match was their most difficult loss. But all that happened to get to that point when the game eventually ended also made it probably the most memorable.

Playing 16 innings without scoring a home run seems hard to do, but not after you think about how inept the Rays were offensively, getting only 3 hits.

They’re the first team in MLB history (going back to 1919) to play sixteen or more innings, and to get 50 at-bats, and get no more than three hits. They had only 6 base runners advanced only three of them to second base and none as far as third.

The eight combined hits were the least for any major-league game of fourteen or more innings in the live-ball era, as outlined by the Elias Sports Bureau.