Sometimes, the Baseball Gods’ intentions are pretty clear.
Such as when they send a moderate storm last Friday to wash out the Detroit Tigers’ “90s Night,” a nostalgic celebration of a decade in which the franchise was 150 games under .500, with just two winning seasons. (Then again, the Tigers are 192 games under .500 in just the past seven seasons combined, with one winning season, so perhaps the ’90s really were an era to cherish.)
Some of the Baseball Gods' moves can be a little tougher to discern in the moment, however; consider the second half of April, in which they convinced an umpire Max Scherzer’s “sweat and rosin” failed MLB’s nebulous stickiness test, earning him a 10-game suspension, and then rained out a pair of games in New York to make sure he couldn’t return from said suspension until Tuesday’s visit to … Detroit!