Cubs fans at Wrigley Field sang ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’ during a 15-minute fog delay on Saturday night. The St. Louis Cardinals led 2-0 when play was stopped and went on to win 3-0.
The rare Saturday night game started an hour late due to rain, then fog billowed in from the north starting in the second inning and got denser. The visibility became so poor that players said they would lose sight of the ball.
Cubs All-Star center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong said, ‘Yeah, that was brutal. I’ve never seen anything like that.’ Cardinals shortstop Masyn Winn said, ‘Right when they hit it, you could see kind of the direction of where the ball was going. And you know, as soon as it touched, like light level, it was gone.’
Fog Delay
The umpires conferred with St. Louis manager Oliver Marmol and Chicago’s Craig Counsell after the sixth inning. Then the delay was announced on video boards as the result of ‘weather in the area.’ Marmol said it was the right call, ‘There was a point there where no one on the field could see where the ball in play was.’
Original reporting: Texarkana Gazette — read the source article.
