The Phillies and Padres played one of the craziest doubleheaders on this day in 1993. Could they do it again?

After Tuesday night’s game was postponed, the Phillies will host the San Diego Padres for a doubleheader on Wednesday. At first glance, it seems normal enough. But when you look back, it all starts to sound familiar.

On this date 32 years ago, the Phillies played a wild doubleheader against the Padres that lasted almost 12 hours, ultimately ending with a split for the Phillies and Padres.

Could history repeat itself? Here’s a look back at that memorable night — and a look ahead at Wednesday night’s weather forecast.

After their April 21 game was postponed earlier in the 1993 season, the Padres traveled to Veterans Stadium to compete in a doubleheader ahead of Fourth of July weekend. Before the game, the Phillies held a 32-minute, players-only meeting in the clubhouse led by catcher Darren Daulton. Mired in a slump, the Phillies had seen their double-digit division lead cut to 5½ games.

As expected, the first pitch of Game 1 was thrown at 4:44 p.m. But Game 2 didn’t conclude until 4:40 a.m. That’s not a typo.

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Following an evening of rain delays — which also canceled the holiday fireworks display after Game 1 and featured almost six hours of stoppages — the first game didn’t end until just after 1 a.m., resulting in a 5-2 Phillies loss. As the night dragged on, instead of postponing the second game to the next day, it started at around 1:28 a.m., in a game that saw the Phillies win, 6-5.

“The only ebbs and flows of this night were supplied by the alternating intensity of the rain,” wrote former Daily News columnist Sam Donnellon, who was covering the game. “The sixth inning of the first game began six minutes before midnight, after three delays of increasing length added up to 5 hours, 54 minutes, a Phillies record.”

But did it even need to happen?

“Why such a wait on the first night of a weekend series? Why play a second game the morning of a scheduled night game?” Donnellon added. “Crew chief Dana DeMuth, while declining to be interviewed between games, told a Phillies official that the game was treated like any other game and that their job was to do the best they could to get the game in.”

They did their job, but that delay is still one of the top-three longest rain delays in MLB history.

One of the most famous accounts of the night, that includes sleeping babies and a family that drove home only to return later, came from former Inquirer writer Gwen Knapp.

Paul Hagen, a Hall of Famer and another Daily News writer at the time, also detailed the night in his 20th anniversary story for MLB.com.

“Everybody remembers the mystique that as the night dragged on, the crowd actually started getting bigger,” Hagen wrote. “As the bars closed, people realized the Phillies were playing and came down to the park. And that just played into the rabble-rousing persona that this team embraced.”

So what did the players do for all that time that they weren’t on the field?

“A lot of card playing,” said Terry Mulholland, who pitched five innings and through two of the three delays. “Some money exchanged. Maybe a paycheck or two.”

It was a long night for anyone at the ballpark — but as Knapp and Hagen pointed out, some fans only arrived when they heard how late the second game was starting.

The leadoff hitter for Game 2, former Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr., recalled the “fairly inebriated” fans at the lengthy doubleheader in Hagen’s anniversary story.

“My memories are of people coming back from the bars,” Amaro told Hagen. “They came from somewhere. Fairly inebriated. But being right over the dugouts and screaming and really getting into it. It was kind of bizarre. Kind of surreal. But it was neat running out there and high-fiving everybody after the game. It was hilarious, but that’s the kind of stuff that makes baseball so amazing.”

Not all the fans were rowdy and debauched.

Inquirer and Daily News sports copy editor Doug Darroch, 69, was among those who showed up for the nightcap. Working in sports, Darroch was already used to the late nights. So, when the Audubon, N.J., resident heard about the second game’s start time on the radio, he made the 15-minute commute to Veterans Stadium.

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Darroch walked into the venue free of charge and had his choice of seats, sitting in the lower bowl behind the Padres dugout as he watched one of the most memorable games he has attended.

“It was a tight game, and of course it was decided by Mitch Williams’ RBI single to left, which led to Harry Kalas’ famous “Mitchy-Poo” reference,“ Darroch said. ”Going home, I had the feeling I was part of something that had never happened before and would never happen again.

“That was all part of the Phils’ magic 1993 season that featured a roster of real characters who caught lightning in a bottle and then lost it for the rest of the 1990s.”

Could it have been avoided?

“That’s not the rules,” manager Jim Fregosi said stoically, and a bit grammatically clumsy.

“There are tough times in this game,” Fregosi said beforehand. “Every time you think you have this game made, it comes up and kicks you in the teeth.”

Before their series with the Padres, the Phillies were in the midst of tough times. They had lost five of their last six and dropped back-to-back series for the first time that year. They split the four-game series with San Diego, but that stretch proved to be only a hiccup, as the Phillies went on to win the National League East title, and defeat the Atlanta Braves in the National League Championship Series — before falling to the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series.

The first game Wednesday has a 1:05 p.m. start time. If everything goes as planned, Game 2 is set to start at around 6:15 p.m. However, there is a 50% chance of rain, which is expected to start early in the day and move out of the area by the start of the nightcap.