World Series Game 3 gave us plenty of great tweets, memes to go with six-plus hours of baseball

If ever there was a baseball game made for Twitter and the meme era, it was the longest World Series game ever.

When we look back at Game 3 of the 2018 World Series, there won’t be any lack of talking points. There were amazing pitching performances by Walker Buehler of the Los Angeles Dodgers (as the starter) and Nathan Eovaldi of the Boston Red Sox (coming out of the pen, but throwing as many pitches as a starter). There was poor Eduardo Nunez, taking as many bumps as any pro wrestler. And of course, there was the sheer length: longest World Series game ever, by both innings and time played.

But while other World Series games have been epics, including three previous ones that went 14 innings, none of them were played in the time of Twitter. And that means that along with a ton of baseball, we also got some memorable tweets and memes out of our extended time in front of the TV on Friday night.

Let’s take a look at some of the best, and who knows? We might keep adding to them as the game still isn’t over as I write this.

Lots of people made jokes about what could occur and the game would still be going.

Others were fascinated by the possibilities of oddities we might see when benches and bullpens began running out of players.

There were logistical concerns aplenty.

Statistical oddities? Of course.

Nunez may as well have had his own subsection of Twitter all to himself.

Nunez also proved to be excellent fodder for the birth of new memes.

Sometimes sports Twitter gets a bad rap for being too negative. On this particular night that turned into morning, it was exactly the right companion to a game that teetered between the ridiculous and the sublime multiple times.