INTERRUPTUS: I don't know that there were any good answers for the umpires tonight -- this game could not be completed under these conditions, nor was a World Series game (let alone a clincher) going to be called final after less than nine innings. Even were there no formal rule about it, the Commissioner's inherent powers would have prevented that outcome.
So the only real question is whether it should have been called sooner, and whether it's a fool's errand to even try to play tomorrow given what's being predicted. And then we can wonder if this game ends up being remembered like the Fog Bowl in the Screwed By Weather annals, and start mapping out Phillies bullpen strategies depending on whether it's a Tuesday or Wednesday return -- there's no obligation to announce, for example, that we might start with Moyer if we don't come back until Wednesday ...
[Also, does a resumed WS game get a new National Anthem, or does Oates' still govern?]
[Via Jayson Stark: "And now for yet another complication: The Rays checked out of their hotel in Center City Philadelphia, in anticipation of flying home after the game -- and they can't get back in, because the hotel is sold out. They're scrambling to find rooms -- somewhere -- as we speak."]
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