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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.
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 ...
Games this season the Reds have waited out a rain delay for a game that took less time to play than the delay lasted, including Saturday’s 3-hour, 20-minute delay in Chicago for a 7-5 loss that ...
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 games marked the ninth time in MLB history the season kicked off outside the U.S. and Canada. Eight of the 30 clubs will take the field with new managers at the helm.
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).
Tanner Banks came on after a three-hour rain delay to strike out pinch-hitter Iván Herrera in the bottom of the 10th inning, and the Chicago White Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-5 on Saturday ...
On April 4, 2006, Petco Park had its first rainout, postponing a Padres evening game against the San Francisco Giants. [28] On August 4, 2007, Barry Bonds hit his 755th home run to tie Hank Aaron's record. On April 17, 2008, the Padres and Rockies played in a 22-inning game. It was the longest MLB game in nearly 15 years.