Oddly, my rant has nothing to do with a call made on a play. Rather, it's about the logic of rain delays, at times. I was listening to my baseball game online, as is my wont during the season, and the rains moved in. Now I'm not a meteorologist, but I can figure out that when there is a lot of yellow, orange, and red stretching from the baseball park westward towards the state line, it's gonna take awhile. When the game was delayed we were in the middle of the 6th inning. Indians were up on the Royals by a score of 5-0. And the entire time it took to play to that point? A mere hour and a half. After five innings it's an official game. The umps could have called it quits at anytime. Both teams need to fly out to play Monday games, too. Royals are headed only to Baltimore, but
the Indians have to fly cross-country to play in Seattle. They finally resumed play after THREE hours and TEN minutes!!!
IMHO, I think a rain delay should not go any longer than the game has been played once it's an official game. This game, heck the entire weekend, has looked like the Royals were completely baffled by Tribe pitching. I think everyone should have been sent on with a "have a good day, thanks for playing".