{"id":246924,"date":"2026-07-18T23:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246924\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T23:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:41:09","slug":"pirates-weather-update-has-rain-delay-for-guardians-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246924\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Weather Update has Rain Delay for Guardians Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/pittsburgh-pirates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> started their Saturday in style.<\/p>\n<p>They were game one doubleheader winners over the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field by a comfortable 7-1 margin.<\/p>\n<p>Their night might get long, though.<\/p>\n<p>They were supposed to start game two at 7:10 p.m. ET, but it won&#8217;t be starting on time.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/pittsburgh-pirates\/news\/pirates-draft-picks-full-list-2026-selections-pittsburgh-20-round-mlb\/e9ffffc75ab130e9e6cfac26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Full list of Pirates 2026 MLB Draft picks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pirates-Guardians weather update for rain delay<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates announced about an hour before first pitch that the second game would begin in a rain delay:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tonight\u2019s game will begin in a delay.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pirates\/status\/2078605525734855093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These teams were playing a doubleheader on Saturday because air quality issues had forced a postponement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Saturday issue is simply inclement weather, though.<\/p>\n<p>The highest chance of precipitation the whole evening in Cleveland was 7 p.m., so they&#8217;ll have to wait it out, with lightning also expected.<\/p>\n<p>The storm is supposed to pass, though, and it looks like these teams will be able to play eventually.<\/p>\n<p>More Steelers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Pirates started their Saturday in style. They were game one doubleheader winners over the Cleveland Guardians&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-246924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}