WORCESTER— This weekend a baseball game went into extra innings.

Way into extras.

Local amateurs from throughout the state played a continuous 100-inning game at Holy Cross’ Fitton Field to raise money for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis — ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease.

The 100 Innings of Baseball Spectacular, despite the weekend’s downpour that picked up mightily around 5 p.m. Saturday, raised more than $75,000 this year. It brought the event’s three-year total to nearly $300,000.

Event organizers will turn over funds to the ALS Association Massachusetts Chapter and Curt’s Pitch, a charity of Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and his wife, Shonda. The couple has been a leader in drawing awareness to local ALS chapters during Schilling’s playing career in Philadelphia, Arizona and Boston.

While Curt was with his team in Toronto this weekend, Shonda stopped by yesterday afternoon and pitched a scoreless 94th inning.

ALS is a motor neuron disease whose cause is not completely understood and has no known cure or treatment. There’s just one FDA-approved drug that slows its progression. Those diagnosed have a grim outlook — life expectancy is three to five years. More than 30,000 Americans are diagnosed at a given time, according to the state chapter.

Walter Benson, the primary umpire for the event at Holy Cross, has a form of the disease. The Boston resident suffers from Primary Lateral Sclerosis, or PLS, which occurs less frequently and is less debilitating.

Benson, diagnosed in January 1999, raised more than $15,000 for this year’s game. He umpired the first 44 innings before taking a three-hour nap in the press box at 4 a.m. yesterday. His doctor had advised him to work just the first inning.

For those keeping score: Team Stamina beat Team Endurance, 69-66. Both teams were assigned random players from throughout Massachusetts.

The game started Saturday morning and ended around 4 p.m. yesterday — and it was competitive throughout — tied going into the 97th inning.

“That’s ridiculous,” said event organizer Michael N. Lembo, a senior at Northeastern University who also played. “The first two times it was like 150-1, and 88-71 or something like that. It’s more interesting this way, and it keeps it more exciting.”

But would they have gone into extras?

“Yeah, we probably would have,” Lembo said. “It’s baseball; you have to have a winner.”

“This has just evolved tremendously,” said Lembo, who intends to remain at Northeastern for a graduate degree while working for the association’s Massachusetts chapter. “The first year we did this on a local field in Boston. Three years later we have this beautiful field, and we’re hoping to raise more than $150,000. But it doesn’t get any easier, playing 100 innings.”