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The NFL (football) plays in just about any weather conditions. In MLB (baseball) they generally try to avoid playing in bad conditions.
Yep the only thing that will stop a NFL game is lightning.
Yeah, but the pro teams have pretty much all covered their stadium so they don’t have to worry about it. College is another story. But there aren’t many covered baseball stadiums.
@@medicwebber3037 I’m a Denver Broncos fan and we have had games delayed due to lightning.
Grandpa always told stories about playing football in highschool while living in MN. Coaches stayed in warm buses while the players ran in 6" deep snow while it was still snowing. Sounds like fun times.
ONLY RAIN OR LIGHTNING STOPS A BASEBALL GAME ... OR A MAJOR EARTHQUAKE AS IN SAN FRANCISCO IN '89.
August 24th, 1919...a pitcher named Ray Caldwell (Cleveland Indians) was struck by lightning while on the mound...after regaining consciousness he said to his catcher: Give me the ball. He finished a complete game after being struck by lightning. He lived until the age of 79
30 players have died from lightning strikes
please note that batting helmets weren't mandated back then.
His teammate (at Shortstop) would die a year later via a pitch to the head while at bat...the ONLY player fatality from a pitched ball in MLB history...this caused the batting helmets to be mandated.
Alex Robinson also allegedly the first fatality “at” a baseball game was a fan being handed a knife by another fan to sharpen his pencil for keeping score and the foul ball hitting the knife and which ended up stabbing him in the chest. Late 1800s or early 1900s I believe. Most of baseball from then is just legend though.
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I knew a guy named Ray Caldwell. So that’s pretty random. However he died at 38 from a heroin overdose.
And lightning strikes are the reason that baseball caps no longer have metal grommets around the air holes on the top
Those were the good ol' days, back when players didn't quit playing because of some minor incident such as getting struck by lightning, and they certainly didn't lay down and die from it.
8:00 The bags contain a substance called "diamond dry" which causes the dirt to dry faster and/or be less absorbent
yea... kitty litter without the green colored baloney
It's the decision of the umpire how they decide how to conclude a game affected by weather, they can delay the game until the weather clears ( sometimes picking up the game where it left off the next day) Or, if they have played more than five innings, the umpire can say the game can not continue and the team leading at that point is declared the winner.
@Blueref 79 I tried to explain as simply as possible for someone who is new to the game... not trying to confuse the guy with too many details...
Let’s keep it simple. New fan!
Yea I've been to games that are delayed just for lightning. The rule they announced was once they hadn't visibly seen lighting for 15 minutes they'd restart the game. It only took like 30-35 if I remember right.
7:30 There actually was an incident some years ago where there was a fire in the Cincinnati Reds stadium during the game. They kept playing the game while the firefighters dealt with the fire. Worth a reaction.
Definitely not Jeffrey Epstein I also thought of that when I saw the clip of lightning striking at Great American Ballpark.
Not worth a reaction for it being like 2 min reaction should just watch it in his own time
My dad and brother were at that game... the fireworks caused it.
That was in the stacks, wasn't it?
Cincinnati is where baseball started or something too I’ve heard.
I remember playing in a game it was sunny and then 10 minutes later, we had a tornado warning and ran to the cars and left. Good times.
There was a clip in here that was in 9th and a blowout. If it was another part of the game, they may stop. But when it’s that close, you just save everyone time and finish it.
Depends on the weather conditions. If it’s a quick storm that’ll pass in an hour, they’ll just wait it out. Sometimes they wait until the next to continue the game. Rarely, a couple times in the video, they’ll continue the game the next time the two teams play in the opposing city. In the case of the tie with the Cubs and Pirates, I believe it was the last game of the season and they literally couldn’t schedule another date.
Also, you should watch the Kansas-Kansas State fight that happened last night in college basketball.
Might do a video on tornado chasing, some do it for their job or for fun.
As someone who lives in Kansas (Rock Chalk!!) I have never been so angry whenever I realized that De Sousa was going to get suspended for forever.
I love him but we kinda need him since he's kinda good.
I remember in high school practicing and having lightning around the field to the north, west, and south. We were taking turns getting some BP and I was the last up, looked at the coaches, told them fuck that, and proceeded to get my stuff and leave. Needless to say practice was called at that point.
Haha! Rangers fan here, as a kid every other game I went to got rained out 🤷♀️
Lol at least u got to leave. We had to hide in the dugout while one rolled over top of us. Lol. Illinois weather.
I kinda cracked up when the guy got engulfed by the tarp and everyone rant to save him lmao
There was another game where the wind had kicked up and a member of the grounds crew was holding onto the edge of the tarp. The tarp was pulled up into the air like a sail, and so quickly that by the guy time the guy realized he was in trouble it was too late to let go. I think he was probably already 30 feet in the air. So he held on for dear life. Unfortunately the wind died as quickly as it came up and he was slammed into the ground. He was seriously hurt. It was horrible to see. (It’s now very difficult to find that video -they may actually have taken it down shortly after it was posted all those years ago. Don’t blame them. He was nearly killed.)
Yeah not like you can suffocate
2:05 we call this Tuesday in Canada. Baseball actually has rain delays quite often as it becomes really hard for the pitchers to grip the ball in the rain, and it ends up becoming a safety hazard as they will end up throwing it all over the place and maybe hitting the batter
also if the dirt becomes too wet it turns into very sticky mud that makes running on it impossible
Also if there is lightning the bats attract it
69,420 subs with no videos challenge metal bats, yes, wood bats like the ones used in the MLB, no. Anyways, the material of the bat, or even if your holding one or not isn't going to change the fact that you're standing in the middle of a field in a thunderstorm and that you should probably get off the field so you don't get struck
@@ryancaldwell621 MLB does not use metal bats
Snow, on the other hand, they play in.
In baseball, they have something called a "doubleheader". Its when you play 2 games in one day. You do this to make up rained out games.. In baseball you play 25 out of 30 days, every month... Hard to make up a game that got rained out, with that schedule.
Trivia--- the term doubleheader comes from railroading, a train pulled by two locos was called a doubleheader.
hifijohn that’s very interesting
Note: There are also "scheduled doubleheaders" which are rarely done for a normal schedule (in 2019, there was one for the Giants-Diamondbacks series)
In the old days doubleheaders were common, movie theaters also had double features, and you could stay there all day watching movies.
@@trashcan102 Back then trains were always pulled by just one steam locomotive, so seeing two locos was a very rare sight.
Nothing like a basebll game in the middle of a snow storm. The most fun I ever had at a baseball game .
We have more land mass over here on our side of the Atlantic than y'all do in the UK, so the weather has much more room to spread out and do whatever it feels like doing, depending on Mother Nature's mood. We can have earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, wild fires, blinding snow storms, and violent hail storms all at the same time in different parts of the country.
I was visiting my Aunt in Vegas from Southern New England in January, one year. The day I left it got up to 65f back home, but dropped from the 70s in Vegas to the upper 30s. I was there for a week-it snowed twice. Meanwhile back home the temp. was ranging from 60-70 degrees.
The day I got back the temp dropped 33 degrees in 6 hours. I got off the plane and it was 38. 🤷🏼♀️.
When you travel in The States, you check the weather along the way!
If you're including earthquakes, then you might as well toss in volcanoes too.
American here. Yes. We are crazy. 🤷🏻♀️
When i was a pup, about a million years ago, I went to several San Francisco Giant games at Candlestick park, over several seasons, that got called for fog.
It was so foggy that the pitcher could not see home plate. Never mind the outfielders.
We always all got "rain checks" each time for the subsequent replay games.
Life in SF when the fog moves in it really moves in. Many times it gets so foggy that you cannot see across the street.
we all remember what was it 1989 WS when the game was called by a quake.
I remember taking a blanket to Candlestick Park in August because it would get so dang cold sometimes!
11:08 those guys are reliving a toy sold in the USA called a Slip 'n Slide, It was basically a tarp like plastic length that you point a lawn sprinkler at and slide down it.
I remember the Slip-N-Slid!! Most dangerous kids toy since Jarts. Stuff was slipperier than a sheet of ice-I distinctly remember my feet coming out from under me and the back of my head slamming into the ground! Good times!!
And we stood in line for FOUR HOURS in July, St Louis Missouri heat, to see Kings Of Leon in concert and they left the stage after 2 songs because a pigeon in the rafters pooped on Jared's shoulder.
_That_ is bullsh*t.
I’d stop being a fan after that.
I went to a Rolling Stones concert in L A. many years ago where it started pouring rain about halfway through. They just kept on singing & finished the show! It was one of the best concerts I've ever seen !!! Still love those guys!
Rain delays tend to take the following form:
1. If it's a brief (
If they make it through 4.5 innings, the game is counted as official, and they won't have to finish the rest later (although they will try to). If it's doesn't make it that far, then they can cancel the game for the rain and make it up on another day.
Each team plays 162 games over the course of 6 months, so they have games almost every day from April through September. It's difficult to find days when both teams aren't doing anything else, so they'll play doubleheaders to make up for rain cancelled games. That means they'll play two games on the same day. Teams go to a city and play three or four games against the same team on consecutive days, so it's common for a rain delayed game to be made up with a doubleheader the next day.
@@bryanread6663 But the Royals, who were the home team, were losing and on their at-bat. Meaning the Indians got more chances, and it wouldn't be fair to call the game there. If the Royals were winning they could've called it, but not when they are losing with less chances to bat.
I used to play baseball, and playing in the mud is so much fun, I used to love rainy games
I watch a lot of people who react to sports clips, but you're one of my favourites because you cover more than just the highlight clips. I really like that and hope you continue. Cheers, mate!
I once had to sit through a 6 hour rain delay just to see my team shit the bed in the 1st inning and lose terribly
React to MLB players enjoying the game videos, it’s so much fun to see these guys going back to their childhood roots and just enjoy playing baseball.
When games are suspended they call a “rain delay”. This means they either wait until the storm passes and pick up where they left off at a later time, or they will add the missed game play to another day and play a “double-header” or partial innings. This means they will just play the rest of the game or cancel the play and start over as a new game. It’s up to the umpires to figure out whatever the best and most fair decision would be.
In American Football you play through anything unless there is lightning in the area, then the game gets suspended until it passes. In baseball, too much rain will result in unplayable field conditions. They will usually try to play through the rain if it's not that bad. If it gets bad and the game is in progress, they will put on the tarp and try and wait it out. If it's going to rain all day, they will just cancel the game and schedule it for another day. If 5 innings are completed and the game gets canceled due to rain, then whoever is winning at the time wins the game. If the game is under 5 innings and the game is canceled, they have to replay the game on a different day.
9:00 in and yep, welcome to St. Louis. About 10 years ago during a game there were winds so strong that carts full of beer for sale went flying. Somehow no-one got hurt, though.
Well, this person probably at least had his/her pride hurt a bit, if not a few bruises... th-cam.com/video/dx0kIbqjwrc/w-d-xo.html
I don't think there's a compilation for this, but the NHL does 1 outdoor game a year called the Winter Classic. You want to see some harsh conditions. in 2008 and 2014, it was snowing during the game, and in 2014 and 2018 it was below freezing. In 2014 it was 13 degrees Fahrenheit (about -11 degrees Celsius) with a windchill of 0 F or -17 C when they started the game. In 2018, conditions were about the same (just no snow).
You don’t want to slide on gravel. 😂
When I was a kid playing little league (not the stuff you might see on TV, just normal youth baseball), I remember we had an umpire who refused to call the game for weather and the skies were practically black on a late afternoon game. It's important to note that at that young age, we used aluminum bats... professionals use wood, not metal, so there's inherently an increased risk of lightning. Parents from both teams pulled all of us from the game. I remember one of the fathers throwing a bat down at the umpire's feet and telling him to go stand out there for a couple hours if he wanted to see someone get struck and killed by lightning so bad.
Probably too late for you to see this, but in 2019 the US Major League Rugby had two matches during big snow storms. Utah vs Nola and Glendale vs Toronto. They had to constantly shovel the lines across the field so players knew where they were on the pitch.
The tarp goes over the infield only, because much of the infield is dirt. The rain turns the dirt to mud and the ball becomes so slippery it could be very dangerous.
Awww it didnt have the earthquake at dodger stadium
Or the 1989 SF-OAK World Series
It was weather events.
Yeah, earthquakes not being weather and all.
I played baseball for Kansas state university and our season would always start in February. The ground crew staff had to shovel snow off the field just so we could play our game in 20 degree weather. Lots of fun
I was watching that Red Sox/Yankees game when the lightning hit. LOL, the way they jumped! These big tough guys! It was adorable.
The stuff they are pouring onto the infield dirt is a material that absorbs more than 200 times its weight in water and holds onto it. It dries out the infield dirt very quickly. The dirt has to be as dry as possible so that it doesn’t get clogged up in the cleats of the ball players, and definitely to protect the pitchers who needs solid footing when they land in order not to get hurt.
With regard to how Major League Baseball handles games ‘called’ due to inclement weather, the game is considered “official” at the end of the fifth inning. If the game is called earlier than the fifth inning, due to inclement weather, it will have to be completed at a later date. This is from the MLB official rulebook: “If a regulation game is terminated early due to weather, the results are considered final if the home team is leading. If the home team is trailing, the results are considered final if the game is not in the midst of an inning when the visiting team has taken the lead.
If a regulation game is terminated early due to weather and the game is either tied or in the midst of an inning in which the visiting team has taken the lead, it becomes a suspended game that will be completed at a later date from the point of termination.”
There is so much money involved in baseball games, with the airtime and advertising, not to mention concession sales, that an incomplete game cost an incredible amount of money. MLB tries to play as long as possible. Additionally, although I’m sure room is built into the schedule for rain days, ultimately it means that at some point the teams are going to have to play a doubleheader. Two games back to back. Considering that one team will have had to travel across the United States to get to the other’s park, you can assume that one team will always be more tired than the other. Also, I personally watched a game that was 17 innings long. These are _long_ games, and they keep going until the very last out. You could legitimately have an eight hour long game, then a break, and then have to play another nine inning game the same day/night. There have been games that have finished after midnight. That’s another reason they try to play in bad weather - so that that eventuality doesn’t have to be dealt with.
FYI Lavish Luka: They pull out the tarp to cover the infield, just to keep it from becoming a muddy mess. Then they have a "rain delay" and they wait until the rain stops or slows up. If the rain doesn't stop and they can't continue, they can finish the game on another day. If it's a complete game (after the fifth inning) and both sides have had an equal chance to bat, they can just end the game. Baseball has nine innings, but it's a complete game in the fifth inning and they can stop after that. Baseball is a summer sport, so you don't often have snow delays. But at the start of the season in early spring or at the end of the season in fall, you can get snow in northern cities like Toronto, Boston, New York, Cleveland, Chicago, and so on.
baseball in the midwest is insane, especially when a lot of them are open. start the season in snow/sleet and end the season with snow possibly. ‘cold’ at the start of the season and ‘cold’ at the end of the season
St. Louis is next to 4 rivers so our city has the craziest weather... its gone from 80 to below freezing in 10 hours... its gotta be hell to delay a game here
so many stl people in the comments haha ur right tho
When I was in high school I ran cross-country (5km). We ran in anything. Except once when the hail got big enough to actually hurt they paused the race. But I ran in snow, rain, lightning, through lakes, mud, etc. It made it fun and exciting and always different, and a challenge every time to push through whatever the course/weather threw at you.
2:55 is my home. Denver. We had some wild games. Tornado warnings the other side of the city, and they're playing.
Our 2nd son is a MLB agent. He works out what kind of money deals for players that get drafted by MLB teams. He was first a scout for the Atlanta Braves and now he's an agent. Most teams have rain delays for safety now. Better to be safe than dead.
In some parts of the US, the pop-up thunderstorms we get usually only last up to an hour, sometimes less, then it clears up and the game can restart. Rain delays are typical in baseball.
In MLB the grounds crew are amazing. It is something to watch them cover the field. So quick and like one unit.
They also have their fun when tending the field and finding little ways to give the home team an advantage. Not really allowed, but no one cares.
The stuff in the bags is called Diamond Dry or Turface or some other brand name, which contains a mixture of sand,clay and and ground up corn cobs depending on the intended usage.For for really wet conditions just ground up corn cobs is used.
Most rain delays are resumed the same day, but a few times a year they are played or finished on another day. That can lead to a Double Header where the teams play two games in a row on the same day. The tarps are used to cover the infield only, mostly for the dirt areas
that last one was so significant because it was in may that snowfall... lol its rare for them to get snow in the post season which can go all the way to very very late October but usually by the time the season starts it's fairly warm and they don't really have to worry about snow too much like maybe a little in late march/early april when the season first starts but never in may which was the significance of that. :)
I know you don’t have a question but at 8:17, the rosin bag is a mesh bag with a substance that lets the pitcher grip the ball more. It prevents water from soaking in their hands
I live your comment on the hall being so big. Because it gets bigger. Last time I saw baseball sized though it wad thrown to us by a tornado that was like 5 miles away. Except we were camping and our emergency radio decided to not work so we had no idea.
As for playing in the winds I grew up in an area that had like 3 cities on the top 10 windiest cities in America. In college we had a 100 mph wind sheer read during a particularly nasty day.
Baseball season starts in late March/early april and goes till November. some of the cities of those cities(Boston, Detroit, Denver, Chicago, Toronto and even New York) can get snow storms as late as mid May and as Early as Middle of October.
Places like Kansas City can get tornados. Washington D.C. boston, miami , Tampa and New York city can get impressively humid and get hit by Hurricanes(huge tropical rainstorms with 70+ mph winds gusts from the end of July to November). When Hurricane Sandy hit 2012 it was followed by a snowstorm seven days later.
My father coached little league baseball and I remember the coaches, fathers, and spectators spreading sand on the infield to try and play after a thunderstorm. I grew up watching my brothers , friends, and sons play baseball. Children learn to play in all conditions but lightening. If lightening is seen or reported close by play is called until the lightening moves out. Very few games are suspended because it is so hard to make up innings or games.
The thing in the bag they are pouring is called easy dry (or something like that) and it is dirt that drys really fast. It's like a clay.
Johnny M close but not quite, what we use on our field is quick dry all it is is really dry dirt and you mix it in with the wet shit and it drys it out
That brown dirt-like stuff they are putting on the field is called Diamond Dry. Its very similar to cat litter, its meant to soak up the moisture and make the field a bit more playable in the rain.
2:32 You have unlocked the achievement "summer weather in Dallas, Texas". It was probably 100 F (= 38 C) with 150% humidity like 25 minutes before.
It probably snowed later that night
How about snow on the ground in Toronto's first game?
When it comes to playing in weather, a win in the rain, in the snow, is always remembered as exceptional. More so than a win on a sunny day. Its a bit like F1 in that regard. Loved this video!
11:06 Yeah, that’s whoever wants/has time to play. I remember doing this as a kid in my front yard, we’d cover the grass with a huge tarp and turn the whole thing into a giant slip-n-slide.
They cover the dirt portions with the tarp to prevent the water from pooling on the dirt and turning into mud.
The newer ballparks(built after 1990) all have state of the art drainage systems where they can actually pump the water out from under the field so they can take enormous amounts of water and be well drained 20-30 minutes after the rain stops.Then the will remove the tarp throw down some drying agent(Diamond Dry) and be ready to play 40 minutes after the rain stops.
There are usually pretty stiff regulations in youth baseball about lightening strikes where you have to end the game. When my son was 8 years old, he was playing in a game where thunderstorms were predicted. The sky was getting darker and the wind was picking up. Then, one of the parents watching the game took a picture with her cell phone. It was dark enough that the auto-flash went off. The umpire saw the flash out of the corner of his eye, thought it was a lightening strike, and sent everyone home. Game called because of flash photography! But it was a good call on his part - before my son and I got to my truck, the rain had started coming down in buckets, and lightening started before we got home.
"You guys just don't care, you play through it and I love that."
The tarp covers "the infield" to keep the dirt dryer . Its complicated as to when a game can be called complete if they stop before the end of the 9th inning... but a delay - the game will start either later that day when the weather gets better - or the next day - or sometimes the next time the two teams meet.
Tarp covers the "infield" or "the diamond" to stop it from becoming muddy. (the clay area "not sodded" area) Most games, if not resumed after delay, are restarted at the same spot/inning the next time those teams meet, then after the resumed game is finished, the next game is played, its a shortened ""double-header" which is when the teams schedules two games on same day. (afternoon & evening typically.).
FOr rain delays, it sometimes depends. If the rain lasts longer than 2-3 hours, they cancel the game, and play the same game from the same score at a different point in the season. They will keep the score of the game and reschedule the game.
I attended an NHL stadium series game during a snowstorm once... best time of my life.
What's usually in the bags are dry sand. Usually the reason the tarp is out on is for "rain delay" it's only for the infeild. If the weather report didn't show the rain, snow, or hail let up for a bit, it'll be a delay.
When the open stadiums have games after big snow storms they’ll invite fans to come help clear feet of snow from the stands.
😯. I didn’t know that and I’m American, lol.
@@medicwebber3037 I’ve heard of the chiefs and the packers doing this for sure
@@RashMonroe
If Green Bay ever encloses that stadium, I will finally stop watching football! The games in the snow are great!
I want a part 2 of this, it was actually really interesting
Those bags are called "Diamond Dry". It helps dry the dirt infield. Once the diamond dry reaches saturation, it's scooped up because the diamond dry has a different consistency than the dirt
They typically will stop games due to lightning not the actual rain unless really heavy. If the game is paused they may a couple hours depending on weather forecast, if 5 innings are complete then they will call the game over. If under 5 innings they may continue the game the next day if teams are scheduled to already play each other. Sometimes games get rescheduled months later due to scheduling conflicts.
You should react to Larry walker and Derek Jeter highlights because both just made the hall of fame
Thank you Luka for the great reactions. I appreciate the fact that your videos are your true reactions and not some hyped-up over the top, obnoxious reaction. Love your videos. Keep up the good work! Stay real!
The bags are called diamond dust, or specifically Diamond Pro. It's a mixture of fine dirt, clay, and chalk to dry out the mud for play.
The bags they are emptying onto the field are Quick-Dry. The material they are spreading is meant to absorb the water from the infield dirt to make the field playable again.
I went to a Yankee game once, got to the stadium before 12, rain was coming down so we had a 3+ hour rain delay, game was scheduled to start at 1:05 PM, didn't begin until 4:20 PM, game didn't finish until almost 8:30 PM. That's baseball for you.
Oh yeah and for the record, that was just this past season.
The hail ones were in Colorado. We get hail all summer and snow as late as June. We usually get a big storm in May at some point.
Those bags that they are dumping on the field are commonly called Quick Dry. Well, I think Quick Dry is actually a brand name, but the premise is the same. They are dumping it on the field in order to try and soak up some of the moisture so that the dirt doesn't turn into mud.
baseball players most of the time wear metal cleats, also holding metal bats and wearing metal face guards. it becomes a hazard to have players out there when you see lightning. most of the time, an umpire won’t do anything unless they see lightning. so you could go through an entire thunderstorm with all rain and thunder, and not get the game called, but one strike of lightning without any thunder or rain could delay the game for the next 20-30 minutes at the least.
it’s only because a lot of players have died being struck by lightning while holding or wearing something metal on the field so now they take a lot of precautions when the weather is bad like this.
I went to my brothers baseball game in central Texas. I live in Dallas. And they didn’t even get to play because HUGE storms rolled throw and as he try to escape these small Texas town on a one lane road where 100 other people were trying to leave the road starts flash flooding it was terrifying.
What they were throwing onto the infield is called Diamond Dry, it's used to dry up water spots on the infield dirt.
Baseball will call off a game if the weather gets bad enough, but football never gets called off. There's a famous Patriots vs. Raiders divisional playoff game from 2001 called, The Snow Bowl. It was insane!
Most of these clips are not of actual game play. If there is a weather delay, they still check in at the stadium on the broadcast even if they aren’t actually playing. They tend to put on reruns of some show to fill the time until the game starts again. But they check in every now and then just to update viewers.
There was a game at the college World Series a few years back where the tornado sirens went off and they had to evacuate the stadium mid game
Watching this gives me some insight into why we've done so badly with the COV 19 pandemic. This attitude of keeping on and playing through it, hasn't worked so well with an infectious disease. I understanding. I grew up in extreme weather, and even in high school and college watch games in rain and snow. Yet . . . .
Baseball starts in April and its normal to still have snow in the northern states.Some of the games are played in near freezing temps.Rain isn't liked because the dirt in the infield turns into mud which makes it hard to run, so they roll the tarp to cover it.If it rains before the game starts there will be a delay, if it goes on for hrs then the game is postponed and played later, it of rains during a game and its light the game continuities if its heavy then they delay it.BTW some BB filed have retractable roofs, so the weather doesnt matter,.
Playing baseball in the rain is probably one of the funnest things to do hands down
the bags that they pour onto the infield when it rains is called Diamond Dry and it basically helps to prevent the infield from becoming a mud pit
Green Bay Packers vs Dallas Cowboys, NFL Championship December 31st, 1967 in Green Bay Wisconsin. Game time temperature was -14 Fahrenheit. -40 Wind chill. Still to this day the coldest game ever played. And half of Wisconsin people my age and older claimed to have been there. It was sold out, by the way. Look up the Ice Bowl on TH-cam.
Lightning or tornadoes is about all that will stop football games. I've played in snow, sleat, rain, and fog. One game there was three inches of freezing cold water in the middle of the field. It was the closest i've ever come to drowning when I ended up at the bottom of the pile while going after a fumble. The fact that i was laying on the ball is the only thing that kept my face out of the water.
I live in Royals land; Kansas City, MO. There's even been stops because of threats of extreme weather conditions like tornado threats, and usually you get hail before severe weather like that.
Mate, they usually don’t play if it’s raining. Some of the clips in this where they’re playing in the rain are out of the norm, and that’s probably why they were included in this compilation. Because it’s crazy!
I play soccer in America. I always think of this game where it was small bits of hail and rain that was small. But it was so windy that it felt like a sandstorm. Everyones skin was red and raw by the end, and it was miserable. But at least we won and I scored a bit.
In baseball if they've completed 5 of the 9 innings they can call it a complete game early. If they're not through 5 they'll scrap it entirely and try again by playing a double header on another day. If the game is tied and past 5 innings, games can't end in a tie in baseball, so they'll come back and pick up where they left off on another day. In that one clip where they say it's tied in the 10th, baseball is usually only 9 innings but if it's tied they play another inning, and repeat until an inning ends with one team on top. There have been games that went into 20+ innings, playing into the wee hours of the morning with both teams running short on players, it's wild.
Usually if there's rain they try to delay it as long as possible before calling it a day, I've been at Phillies games where it was on rain delay for three hours, almost the entire crowd left, and they ended up playing after all.
6:00 the batter there is Jorge Soler and he is from Cuba. Simply being outside in snow for him had to be a huge shock to his system.
One of these was at Target Field. I was at an April game many years ago in a sleet storm. It was brief
Baseball season starts at the end of March and in places like the North Eastern and sort of Midwestern states snow is absolutely possible, though it is unseasonably cold if that happens.
I'm north of the Canadian border and have played amateur baseball in the snow like that. Honestly the biggest problem is hitting the ball with cold hands. It feels like they might shatter on impact.
They will continue play after a rain delay in certain situations. I’ve watched baseball games that end at 3am on more than 1 occasion. Love your videos!!
Baseball is steeped in tradition, you should react to mlb pranks. Some of those pranks are from the early days of ball but are still around today. Also there are some hilarious baseball rain delay moments if you look up baseball rain delay fun
Baseball is known as a "gentleman's sport" meaning there's lots of regulations to keep the game high class or clean - not sure the best way to describe it but there's lots of weird unwritten rules in baseball. For weather, you really should call the game or delay the game even if it's just drizzling. Sometimes they don't but that's just always been baseball thing.
For delays, the rule is that you wait until it's good to play again. Some delays can be 2-4 hours. If the weather is really really bad like a tornado or the radar looks like it may rain all day/night, they'll end the game or postpone it for another day or play a double-header (two games in 1 day) if it's part of a series with the same team.
In baseball they generally don't play if it's raining or snowing. If it happens to start raining or snowing during a game, they'll play through it a little bit unless it gets too bad, then they'll delay the game until it stops.
Since most professional baseball games are nine innings long, the fifth inning is used as the threshold for an official game. If the visiting team is leading, or the game is tied, the end of the fifth inning marks this point. If the home team (which bats last) is already ahead in the score, and theoretically would not need its half of the fifth inning, then 4½ innings (i.e., the middle of the fifth) is considered an official game. The game is also considered official if the home team scores to take the lead in the bottom of the fifth inning, since the game would end immediately if the same thing happened in the ninth. Games that are stopped due to power outages are treated as suspended and cannot be declared official.
I went to a high school football game. They kept the game going into the 4th quarter and finally delayed the game when the county got put into a tornado warning. Fortunately there was no tornado. Just rotation in the atmosphere. 20 minutes later, game continued. Welcome to Mississippi!
On August 4 2008 there was a massive storm that hit Chicago while the Cubs were playing at Wrigley Field, and there are several TH-cam videos available if you search "Chicago Cubs" or "Wrigley Field" and "tornado"...yes, in addition to enough rain coming down that Noah's Ark wouldn't be out of place, and lightning, there was a tornado warning at the time so that sirens were blaring. Absolutely crazy situation.
At about 6:45 - the face mask for the catcher and umpire behind the plate are primarily to protect from the baseball. If a ball is traveling at roughly 95 miles per hour, you need some kind of facial protection when you're directly in the line of fire. There are many instances of a batter trying to hit the ball and it ricochets into the umpire or catcher's face.
There's video of a catcher taking a tipped ball to the facemask so hard that the cage's welds broke and shot sparks. SPARKS.
Some interesting things about weather in baseball...
The game is suspended and played at a later date if the game does not get past halfway (5th inning). If it gets past the 5th, the game is declared over and whoever is leading is the winner. Most of the time, the umpires (referees) will delay the game until the weather passes and resume after an hour or two. In certain scenarios though, the game cannot be resumed based on either the severity of the weather and field conditions or the duration of the weather delay.
The players that are mesmerized by snow and hail are primarily players that were born in the Caribbean. These Hispanic players grew up in hot climates and most of the had never seen snow before until they got to the US to play baseball.
There's also been a Tornado Warning during a game in Colorado one time, and I think the same thing happened at Wrigley field in Chicago
Chris you're right. Once at Wrigley and once out here in Denver at Coors.
So when a game is delayed, they usually try to get the game going again in an hour or two. If it goes past three hours of delay, a lot of times the game is considered suspended, which means it won't be continued that day. If fewer than 5 innings have been completed, the teams will usually try to figure out another time to complete the game. If at least 5 innings have been completed, the game will usually be considered complete at that point, with no continuation at a later date.
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