The Atlanta Braves vs Cincinnati Reds competition in Bristol, Tennessee at Bristol Motor Speedway has been hung by rain in the bottom of the 1st inning. The competition is planned for the time being to resume Sunday at 1 p.m.
It is difficult to imagine how someone could have known just about everything in Saturday evening, worse than she was.
Let’s start with what both teams did. They loosened their starting jars and ready to go, even though the radar was very clear that rain would come around the first pitch and that it would not leave all night. Both teams could have gone with a Reliever, just like a opener and waited to see what was going to happen and to get Chase Burns and Spencer Strider when things change. But they didn’t.
The game did not start on time and there was a delay of more than two hours. Atlanta decided to put a Reliever in the game when it would start at 9.40 pm. The Reds chose to stay with Chase Burns. He made it no more than a few pitches to open the game before it started to rain again. But he also came through the top of the 1st inning with a line -out and two strikeouts.
Austin Cox and Atlanta did not go so well when he threw in a downpour where large puddles were on the Infield when Cincinnati put together three straight singles to take a 1-0 lead before the referees were brought to the site to bring each bag dry in the field and try to turn soup into a solid. It did not work and after about 20 minutes they then decided to pull the sail. After looking for 30 minutes, it continues to rain and finally look at and understand how the weather radar cards work, they decided to suspend the competition for the rest of the night and try to pick it up tomorrow.
The Reds wasted almost a Chase Burns start because both she and Major League Baseball could not look at a radar map.
But if their blunders were limited to the stuff on the field on the day. Instead, many places were eating outside before the national anthem was sung at 7 pm. The fan zone outside the Speedway was reportedly a disaster.
Just about everything that went wrong on Saturday was easy to avoid. You knew you sold 85,000+ tickets. You know how much food people eat at these events. How were you so unprepared that you were eating out before the game started? How did MLB and both teams look at the same radar that the rest of us looked at and saw all that rain coming and deciding to warm up both starting pitchers? Just a complete master class of mismanagement everywhere. Well done, everyone. Great effort.
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