Oakland was going to play the Devil Rays in St. Petersburg Sunday, but Hurricane Gordon was in the area, so it was called because of the possibilities for damage and because Oakland was scheduled to fly to Baltimore that night. This game will be made up after the regular season is over ONLY if Oakland needs to settle a tie with some other team (Cleveland, most lilkely, and possibly Seattle). http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/al/recaps/2000/09/17/devil.rays_athletics/ And I think a Houston Astros game in the Astrodome was once called because of similar weather many, many years ago.
Y’all remember this in case you want to win a bar bet some day.
We can top this. We had a basketball game called on account of rain! The Seattle Supersonics had to cancel a game during a heavy rainstorm because the Coliseum roof was leaking so badly. (The Coliseum has since been replaced by the Key Arena.)
We also had a baseball game that was cancelled due to falling ceiling tiles, but that’s another thread. (The Kingdome has since been replaced by a fabulously expensive private/public boondoggle.)
The Astros game was called, IIRC, because, while the stadium’s field itself was playable, the rain was so heavy that neither team’s bus could drive out to the stadium (to say nothing of the fans).
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Pluto’s post reminds me that I once got to see a Dodger home game and a Seattle home game on the same day: one of the Seattle makeup games was in Anaheim (the same night as a Dodger day game), and Seattle was technically the home team.
