Not to mention you don’t get concessions back as a fan, either. I think most clubs will do something for you on the parking, however.
In fairness–if the ballpark opens at all on a game day, but an official game is not completed, the stadium operations expenses are still about as much as they would be with a game.
An MLB team’s primary expense is exempt-employee (mostly player) salaries, which are an indirect cost. The margin they’re making on opening the stadium is huge; operating the place is a fraction of what they pull in in ticket sales. It has to be, so they can pay the salaries.
Remember that for a modern MLB team, gate is not the majority, or even single-largest, revenue stream. Even if stadium operations were magically free and MLB organizations had no other costs at all, total ticket sales would only cover something like…[rough scribbles]…65% of player payroll.
Looking at the intersections of profit and hassle, I’m pretty sure they’d rather see clear skies on all their home dates, as much as the fans.
That game was completely replaced by a future game (as you can see in both team’s season records,) but it does count because the stats weren’t wiped. Kudos.
No kidding? Aren’t they supposed to pick up the game where it left off, after the 7th inning?
The game at issue was in 2005, before the rule change wherein tied and rain-interrupted games became suspended games.