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In Major League Baseball postseason play since 2009, the game has started and is stopped at any time for weather or power outages. [ 5 ] The 2009 rule change was put into place as a result of Game 5 of the 2008 World Series , which was the first postseason game in history to be suspended and resumed from the point of suspension.
A rain delay in the sixth inning of Game 5 of the 2008 World Series led to the game being suspended; it was completed two days later.. A suspended game in baseball occurs when a game has to be stopped before it can be completed, and the game is meant to be finished at a later time or date.
The six consecutive days of rain between Games 3 and 4 caused the longest delay between World Series games until the earthquake-interrupted 1989 World Series (which incidentally featured the same two franchises, albeit on the West Coast, and which also resulted in an A's victory over the Giants).
*Hunter Greene on the fact that three of his starts this season have come after three of the Reds' four longest rain delays before first pitch, including a 3-hour, 20-minute delay Saturday.
Lightning strikes behind Coors Field during a rain delay before a baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Colorado Rockies on July 13, 2019, in Denver, Colorado.
In the middle of that endless, historically embarrassing frame: a 2-hour, 20-minute rain delay. It all made for an unforgettably bizarre day and night of baseball, one the Pirates eventually won ...
The White Sox and Texas Rangers were involved in the longest rain delay in baseball history at 7 hours and 23 minutes at Comiskey Park on August 12. Behind the delay's length was the White Sox's insistence that the game be rescheduled at Comiskey four days later when both teams were idle and not at Arlington Stadium the subsequent weekend ...
50 years later, a Braves fan shares long-private video of Hank Aaron's 715th home run; Patient fans wait out 5-hour rain delay for Royals vs. Orioles; Transportation officials want NYC Marathon organizers to pay $750K to cross the Verrazzano bridge; The Buffalo Bills agree to trade top receiver Stefon Diggs to the Houston Texans