Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus didn’t get stuck in any of the flash floods on his drive from Birmingham to Comerica Park today, but he said some of his players did.
“Took me about 50 minutes,” Ausmus said. “Wasn’t too bad. I went surface streets. A lot of flooding on the surface streets.”
The outlook for today's game against the Cleveland Indians (1:10 p.m., FSD, ESPN) isn't good. An Indians bus reportedly got caught in floodwater, forcing some players to hail cabs instead.
Ausmus and Indians manager Terry Francona examined the field with the umpires this afternoon, before the grounds crew put the tarp back on the field.