We’re still coming down from Monday’s game between the Brewers and Athletics at Las Vegas Ballpark, a bizarre 12-inning affair in which Milwaukee emerged with a 15-14 victory.
Here are seven fun facts from one of the wildest contests we’ve seen in a good while.
The Brewers LIVE for 15-14 games
It goes without saying that 15-14 is quite an unusual final score: It’s only happened 18 times since at least 1900, including once in the postseason (Game 4 of the 1993 World Series). But before Monday, the most recent time it had happened sure seems familiar. It was back on Aug. 17, 2019, when a 15-14 road game at Nationals Park was won by ... the Brewers, naturally. Before that, you’d have to go back to Aug. 5, 2001, to find the previous 15-14 game, and that one was a classic: Cleveland pulled off the biggest comeback in MLB history to beat Seattle, rallying late from a 12-0 deficit.
That’s a lot of runs …
The 29 combined runs scored in Monday’s game smashed the previous MLB-wide season high of 25, which was set by the Giants in a 19-6 win over the Rockies on May 31. But it hasn’t actually been that long since two teams topped that: The Pirates and Rockies combined to plate 33 runs in a 17-16 thriller on Aug. 1, 2025, at Coors Field.
And a lot of homers
Las Vegas Ballpark, the current home of the A’s Triple-A affiliate, proved to be a true launching pad when the A’s and Brewers opened their series in Sin City. The two clubs combined for 11 homers, with the A’s actually launching seven despite the loss, including two apiece for lefty sluggers Nick Kurtz and Tyler Soderstrom. This season, the only other team to hit seven homers in a game was the Giants ... just three days earlier in an 18-3 romp at Wrigley Field. The 11 combined home runs were the most since the Royals and Orioles also combined for 11 on May 4, 2025, in Baltimore.
How many hits?
The Brewers managed their 15 runs on 18 hits, two more than the Athletics’ 16 hits in their losing effort. First baseman Andrew Vaughn led the way with four hits for Milwaukee, while three A’s (Kurtz, Soderstrom and catcher Shea Langeliers) each had three. In 2026, only the May 31 Giants-Rockies clash featured more combined hits (35) than Monday’s game (34). Last season, only six teams both recorded and allowed at least 16 hits in a game -- and one of them was the Brewers, who had 17 and gave up 18 in (you guessed it) another road win, on June 22, 2025, in Minnesota.
Challenging times
The two teams combined to issue 16 ABS challenges on Monday, shattering the previous record of 12 since ABS came to the Major Leagues beginning this season. The A’s were also involved in one of the two games with 12 combined challenges, their home contest against the Cardinals on May 14. On Monday, the Brewers went 5-for-7 on their challenges, while the A’s were 6-of-9 -- despite losing their second challenge in the bottom of the ninth, they received another for each extra inning and lost a third in the 12th.
Tired arms
Both the Brewers and A’s used seven pitchers in Monday’s slugfest, and the 14 hurlers combined to throw 441 pitches. That was a season high, surpassing 432 pitches thrown in the 13-inning Rays-Pirates contest on April 18 at PNC Park. Including the postseason, the most recent game with more was the 18-inning Game 3 of the 2025 World Series (609); the previous regular-season game with more was the April 4, 2025, Rockies-Giants game (447), which went 11 innings. The A’s alone threw 238 pitches, the most by a single team in a regular-season game since … the A’s, on March 31, 2025, against the Cubs (246).
A long night at the yard
With so much offensive firepower, it’s little surprise Monday’s game took quite a while to complete. A 7:05 p.m. Pacific Time start, the contest took four hours and 14 minutes to finish, the longest game of the season. In fact, the 12-inning contest even outlasted the two 13-inning games played in 2026 -- Rays-Pirates on April 18 and Rays-Orioles on May 25, both four hours, 12 minutes. Monday’s marathon was the longest regular-season game in the Majors since the Marlins and Twins played 13 innings in four hours, 16 minutes on Sept. 26, 2024.