As it rained hard on Monday night, baseballs were hit harder while leads and a record were both washed away at Great American Ball Park.
One important item that was missing from a nutty game played between the Reds and Pirates was a final score. Even with a combined 10 home runs, a stadium record, hit through six innings, rain stopped the game with a 7-7 score before the top of the seventh. Following a 1-hour and 38-minute delay, it was suspended.
Play will resume at 5:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday.
“I’ve never seen anything like that,” Reds manager Bryan Price said. “I’ve seen a lot of home runs hit. I just haven’t seen them like that in those conditions, especially here in Cincinnati. You’d think it’d be a heavy air. It’s raining. It’s cooler. You just wouldn’t imagine that the ball would carry the way it did. A lot of the balls were hit really well, but some of them weren’t. It made for kind of a fascinating six innings, that’s for sure.”
Non-premium tickets may be exchanged at the box office for the continuation, followed by the regularly scheduled game. Fans holding tickets for the regularly scheduled game at 7:10 p.m. will also be admitted for the continuation of the suspended game.
Reds pitcher Homer Bailey continued his struggles to begin the season as he allowed five runs on eight hits with four home runs over five innings. It was the third straight start he did not get beyond the fifth, and he’s blown all four leads he’s been given during the young season.
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