Detroit — It should have been a no-brainer.
It was cold, wet and windy and the meteorologists, professional and amateur, were saying the rain wouldn’t stop before 5 p.m. and the game wouldn’t have started before 7 p.m. Nobody on either team wanted to play baseball in those conditions.
And yet, it took some doing before the game was finally postponed. It will be made up as part of a split doubleheader on Tuesday, Aug. 6. But coming to that make-up decision took some negotiating.
“The only reason it took so long is they were trying to get us to play on the first day back in August,” Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire said.