The frigid air of this April’s morning awoke a sensation of doubt regarding whether or not this game would be played tonight. On the journey to my job job type job, through the radio speakers in the Buntmobile™, it became clear that this was a historic day in Omaha as the temperatures bottomed out at 13 degrees, breaking a record that was set in 1899 according to the National Weather Service.
I know baseball players don’t particularly like baseball in cold weather. Just recently, it drove Tampa Bay centerfielder Kevin Kiermaier to ponder the option of covering his entire body in Vaseline for an extra layer of warmth.