Series bulletin: Tarp time
PHILADELPHIA -- It just started pouring at Citizens Bank Park and the tarp has been put on the infield. It's not supposed to be a night filled with prolonged rain. We'll see. Stinks. We get a 70-degree day on Halloween in the Northeast but we get rain too.
So if -- if -- we get a rainout tonight, that would almost certainly scuttle the Yankees' plans to use CC Sabathia on short rest in Game 4. MLB would likely just scrap Tuesday's travel day and Games 3-7 could be played over 5 days in a row.
7:57 p.m. update: Our starting time has come and gone. The rain is a little lighter but the tarp is still on the field and starting pitchers have yet to begin their warmups. Looks like the earliest we get this going is 8:45ish.
8:30 p.m. update: The tarp was on the field and it wasn't raining. But it was no Halloween trick: The folks here apparently knew it was coming. Because now it is pouring again. The stands were packed and people have scattered. Ugh.
---Mike Harrington
