It has been, as of today, 170 days since baseball was last played at Wrigley Field, Game 5 of the 2017 NLCS (a game most of us would like to forget, I’m sure).
That’s just a little more than 24 weeks ago, and once again, Wrigley Field turned from a ballpark to a construction site and back in less than half a year’s time, a real credit to all the construction crews who worked hard on making offseason improvements. As Cubs spokesman Julian Green told reporters Friday, the construction crews turned the park over to the grounds crew on March 19, so that’s just 20 days to get the field in baseball shape, a credit to that crew as well.