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During Sunday's 18-inning masterpiece between the Reds and Padres at Petco, which the Padres won 12-9 on an Adrian Gonzalez homer off of Edinson Volquez, the two teams combined for four blown saves.
David Weathers, Francisco Cordero, and Bill Bray all blew saves for the Reds and Cla Meredith contributed one for the Padres. Jeremy Affeldt and Josh Fogg had holds for the Reds and Brian Corey had a hold for the Padres.
I haven't found an easy to find other games that have had this many blown saves before, but I found a reference to one in Yahoo! Answers for a game between the White Sox and Tigers in Detroit on September 14, 1998 that also had four blown saves. Chicago won the game 17-16 in 12 innings with the White Sox blowing three saves (Carlos Castillo, Bryan Ward, and Bobby Ward) and the Tigers blowing one (Matt Anderson).
UPDATE - Commenter Travis08 turned up this 1995 game between the Cubs and Astros that featured four blown saves by the Astros. And two games that had a combined five blown saves, both of which were played at Coors Field.
Game 7, 1960 World Series.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PIT/PIT196010130.shtml
Game 4, 1993 World Series.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHI/PHI199310200.shtml
Rockies 10, A's 9, July 17, 2000 (Game 2):
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/COL/COL200007172.shtml
Rockies 16, Dodgers 15, June 30, 1996:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/COL/COL199606300.shtml
There have been 20 games since 1956 with 4 blown saves, including yesterday's.
Cubs 12, Astros 11, September 28, 1995.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199509280.shtml
The Astros finished 1 game out of the wild card.
Was there a simple way to do this or was it just a matter of brute force of going throught the B-R Play Index?
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