I know baseball loves the unbalanced schedule because it gives them a boatload of Yankees-Red Sox and Dodgers-Gians games to broadcast, but it also makes for some super crappy games like the one we saw (read: no one saw) last night in D.C. between the Dodgers and the Nats.
The Nats beat the Dodgers, 4-0, but not after a 3-hour, 17-minute rain delay emptied the stadium and chased off starting pitchers Zack Greinke and Jordan Zimmermann. The game ended at 1:21 a.m. -- long after the Metro stopped running, which would’ve required fans who actually wanted to sit through rain to leave early -- and the whole evening lasted 6 hours, 16 minutes from first pitch to final out.
The grounds crew should probably be lauded for keeping the field in playing shape, but this is one that, were this not the Dodgers’ only visit to D.C. thanks to the unbalanced schedule, would have been suspended or postponed. Instead we got a game no one saw.
