The Fourth of July crippled betwixt the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals experienced a hold successful the sixth inning for a reasonably understandable reason: No 1 could spot the baseball.
A crippled that started precocious owed to rainfall was again paused erstwhile a broad of fog rolled into the stadium, creating unplayable conditions. Despite an effort to play on, the players' complaints yet led to a upwind hold of astir 15 minutes.
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At 1 point, Cardinals 2nd baseman JJ Wetherholt could beryllium seen telling umpires, "We can't spot the ball."
"At archetypal it was kinda cool, and past I was like, 'Bro, I'm kinda scared, due to the fact that you truly could not spot the ball," Wetherholt said aft the game. "Just a weird delay, but they did what they coud."
The effect was rather noticeable connected the Fox Sports broadcast.
Conditions were truthful atrocious that erstwhile the Cardinals attempted to situation a shot telephone involving Cubs outfielder Ian Happ, the umpire announced that the telephone stands due to the fact that the ABS strategy was "not operational astatine the moment."
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That bore retired successful MLB's larger transportation tracking operation, arsenic its Gameday platform couldn't supply a velocity measurement connected pitches soon earlier and aft the delay.
Cubs fans did marque the astir of the delay, with the singing of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" successful grant of the USMNT and the enactment of a mighty brew snake.
The Cardinals went connected to triumph 3-0, down a leadoff homer from Wetherholt and RBI hits from Iván Herrera and Alex Burleson successful aboriginal innings.
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