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This week's question: The average nine-inning Major League Baseball game lasted a record 3 hours, 5 minutes this season, up from 2 hours and 46 minutes in 2005. Please come with a medical term to describe the fatigue felt by fans when a baseball game creeps into the third hour.

Click here to see the results of last week's contest: Baby flight

RESULTS:

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THE WINNER: "Louisville sluggish"

Kim Doyle, Woolwich, Maine

SECOND PLACE: "Bat-atonic"

D. McSwain, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

THIRD PLACE: "Seventh inning kvetch"

Peter W. Reichert, Richmond, California

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

"Ty Clobbered"

Ken Kellam III, Dallas

"Restless league syndrome"

Deborah Gandolfo, Kirkland, Washington

"Bladder up"

Bill Doughty, Honolulu

"America’s past-bedtime"

David P. Simmons, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

"Apathletic"

Phyllis Klein, New York City

"The dold-runs"

Jim Kulakoski, Port Orange, Florida

"A fatigue of their own"

Bob Latham, Dallas

"MLBeleaguered"

Dan Larkin, Saint Paul, Minnesota

"Batigue"

Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh

"Homer-rhoids"

Chip Rollinson, Cambridge, Massachusetts

"Inningsomnia"

Ken Liebman, Williston, Vermont

"Spring draining"

Beth Simon, Oakland, California

"19th inning nervous breakdown"

Bill Levine, Belmont, Massachusetts

"Beg-inning-to-end syndrome"

Peter Gordon, Great Neck, New York

"Major league fatigue"

Bill Mistele, New City, New York

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