It happens every year. You can mark it down on your calendar.
The baseball season begins and April weather in Chicago and other northern cities turns back to winter.
This results in games being played in less-than-optimal conditions, particularly when the opponent for the Cubs or other northern teams only comes through town once.
We saw this last week when the Tampa Bay Rays visited Wrigley Field (and also Guaranteed Rate Field on the South Side) for a week, and as I noted in the recap to Wednesday’s soggy, rain-shortened game, weather conditions were awful for all six games the Rays played in Chicago:
April 15: 47 degrees, cloudy
April 16: 44 degrees, sunny
April 17: 41 degrees, cloudy
April 18: 40 degrees, cloudy
April 19: 42 degrees, cloudy
April 20: 51 degrees, overcast, rainThen the Cubs played a four-game series against the Pirates where one game was rescheduled due to rain and another delayed nearly an hour by rain.