Delayed

 

Angry skies near the ballpark

It's been raining on and off most of the day.

I thought we'd have a window to play baseball -- and we still might -- but that window is currently closed as I type from the Dutchess Stadium booth.

The truth is that we've been fortunate in that we have not one of those lengthy rain delays.

We've been postponed. We've had nights where we started an hour or so late. But we haven't had one of those stretches where either we don't start for three hours or we got stopped in the middle of a game. I thought that might happen on Monday but the game went all nine innings. I was prepared for it to stop in the sixth.

Tonight? Nothing yet. It's 7:35 p.m. and players are milling on the field but there's no news.

We haven't had to conquer a stopped game in which I either vamp for a bit or send it back to Jeff Semancik in the Z93 studio for music. 

This delay was a little different. We knew there would be a small delay and Rick Zolzer read the starting lineups. We played the hype video.

Then the skies opened.

Now we sit.

Zolz has just passed the word that we'll try to play at 7:55 -- 7:50 pregame show on Z93. The milb.tv stream is already live so feel free to join us and we'll keep you entertained.

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Follow-up: They won and it was a good night. We're right back at it tomorrow.