美国一场棒球赛持续30小时 欲打破世界纪录

ALLIANCE, Neb. - A baseball game that began at 10 a.m. on Saturday in Alliance ended Sunday at 4:05 p.m.
　　
　　在美国内布拉斯加州阿莱恩斯市进行的一场棒球赛，从当地时间9月2日上午10点开始一直打到9月3日下午4：05才结束。
　　
　　That‘s 30 hours and five minutes between the first pitch and the final out. Game organizers are counting on the contest being long enough to break a world record.
　　
　　那场比赛从头到尾总共耗时30小时5分钟。赛事组织者计算出这场比赛时间的长度已经打破了世界纪录。
　　
　　Forty players, ranging in age from 18 to 44, rotated in and out of the 84-inning game in hopes of setting a new Guinness World Record for the longest baseball game.
　　
　　40名年龄在18岁到44岁之间的棒球运动员参加了这次比赛，他们在这场先后打了84局的比赛中轮番上阵，希望创造最长的棒球赛新的吉尼斯世界纪录。
　　
　　The record stands at 25 hours, set in Canada nearly three years ago.
　　
　　这项纪录目前保持为25小时，由一群加拿大人于3年前创造。
　　
　　Alliance organizers tried for a record last year, but their 24-hour, 16-minute game fell short of the record by 44 minutes.
　　
　　阿莱恩斯市的组织者们早在去年就曾尝试着创造新的纪录，但他们当时的比赛只持续了24小时16分，比原纪录少了44分钟。
　　
　　Far from a pitcher‘s duel, this year‘s game was won by the Alliance Times-Herald Dragons, which beat the WESTCO Knights, by a score of 120 to 114.
　　
　　在今年的比赛中，阿莱恩斯时代先驱龙队最终以120：114击败了WESTCO骑士队。