Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> in the best-of-seven, the thought of grinding through a soggy field and winds so chilling that they prompted a freeze warning, was no biggie.<\/p>\n\u201cAt least it’s not snowing,\u201d Sabrowski said with a shrug.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Still, the inclement weather didn\u2019t let up \u2013 the rain ebbed around 8 p.m. ET and the tarp was removed while the grounds-crew worked to squeegee away pools of water on the warning track but never stopped falling \u2013 and a postponement was announced shortly after 9 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n
Game 4 now goes Saturday at 8 p.m. ET with Game 5 pushed to Sunday at 5 p.m. ET, with Games 6 and 7, if necessary, back in Tampa on Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The starters will remain Nick Martinez for the Rays and Shawn Armstrong for the Guardians, with the now compressed schedule sure to complicate pitching plans for both teams the longer this series goes.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s go, it\u2019s regular season, we play four in a row all the time,\u201d said Guardians manager Stephen Vogt. \u201cObviously it’s not ideal for either team. I think we both wanted to play today. It just wasn’t in the cards.\u201d<\/p>\n
The decision came after hours of finagling between officials from both clubs and Major League Baseball, with conversations about what to do beginning Thursday after Game 3 ended. Friday morning, they felt there was a chance to play and decided to push for a game as long as they could.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ultimately,\u00a0\u201cthe rain didn’t change,\u201d said Rays manager Kevin Cash. \u201cIt never cleared out the way they were hoping. It started to get later in the hour, and MLB and I think both clubs did everything they could to try to get it in.\u00a0Made the most sense, like, at this point and this hour, with no guarantee that there wasn’t another band (of rain) coming.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2013 North of the border, generally, and in central Alberta, certainly, baseball season tends to start late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-936312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}