ST. LOUIS -- The grounds gang at Busch Stadium took to the province just before 6 p.m. ET to doff the tarp and forge the domain for the resumption of the XM All-Star Futures Game, which has been delayed by teem since 2:22 p.m. ET on Sunday.
The game, which will be shortened to seven innings, is expected to take up again at 6:30 p.m. No creative inning will commencement after 8:30 p.m. The Taco Bell All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game will be played after the conclusion of the game.
The Futures Game started on rhythm at 2:08 p.m., but dialect mizzle began falling very soon thereafter. The summit half of the inception inning was played before the tarp was rolled out with the World party leading, 2-0.
It is the before cloudburst hiatus in the biography of the event. Shortly after the chief pitch, drops began falling and some resound was audible. The raid grew very heavy, but it has since dwindled to kindle rain. The withstand Web locality Intellicast.com calls for 70 percent shower coverage in downtown St. Louis through the 7 o'clock hour, decreasing to 60 percent at 8 and 9 p.m. and 40 percent from 10 p.m. on. "We'll do the whole shebang conceivable to get it in," Patrick Courtney, MLB's foible president of civic relations, said before the game.
MLB officials have said that while they are hoping the gutsy will be finished, it is uncongenial it would be made up. Courtney said that any decisions on whether and how to proceed with the spirited will be made by on-site Major League Baseball operations personnel, explicitly Jimmie Lee Solomon, the league's managing director frailty president for baseball operations.
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