{"id":246950,"date":"2026-07-19T00:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T00:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246950\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T00:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T00:17:12","slug":"pirates-vs-guardians-rain-delay-july-18-updates-start-time-full-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246950\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates vs. Guardians Rain Delay, July 18: Updates, Start Time, Full Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-blue my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5l\">Fresh off  a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/jacob-gonzalez-homers-vs-guardians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">convincing 7-1 win over the Guardians<\/a> earlier in the day, the Pittsburgh Pirates have to be feeling good heading into the second half of their doubleheader on Saturday. The offense looks downright scary even with the injuries the lineup is dealing with and they are sending <a href=\"https:\/\/rumbunter.com\/pirates-bold-trade-steal-is-quickly-making-fans-forget-his-brutal-start-01kr407wk49h\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Montgomery<\/a> up against a Cleveland lineup that isn&#8217;t exactly fearsome at the moment. Unfortunately, the weather is once again causing problems.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-blue my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5o\">The reason why there was a doubleheader today was due to smoke from wildfires in Canada causing havoc across the region. While the first half of the twin bill went by without a hitch, Mother Nature has another trick up her sleeve for the nightcap as rain in the Cleveland area has forced this game into a rain delay already.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-blue my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5r\">**UPDATE: 8:08 PM EST**<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-blue my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5u\">Okay, this is just getting comical now. Clearly the weather is behaving in ways that officials and meteorologists did not expect. After TWO different false starts, the current estimate for when this Pirates game will get start now sits at 8:25 PM EST.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pirates-Guardians now expected to start at 8:25pm ET Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Underdog MLB (@UnderdogMLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UnderdogMLB\/status\/2078632589397811709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 19, 2026<\/a>Pirates vs. Guardians Rain Delay, 7\/18\/26: So when will this game start?<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-blue my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"63\">There IS a lot of weather making the rounds on Saturday, and we have already seen other MLB games have their start times impacted. However, the storms that are moving through are also not huge and very scattered, as is customary this time of year with these afternoon\/evening storms. The current forcecast has the rain moving out around 8 PM EST, so that is a pretty safe bet as to how long this delay should last.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-blue my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"66\">We will keep this post updated with any information that is made available from official sources about the delay, including when an estimated start time is revealed. Sit back, relax, and get caught up on the goings on around the world, because we should be watching Pirates baseball this evening before too long.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow rumbunter.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=rumbunter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\">Follow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off a convincing 7-1 win over the Guardians earlier in the day, the Pittsburgh Pirates have to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-246950","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\/246950","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=246950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}