World Series weather report: Phillies-Astros Game 3 might be affected by rain at Citizens Bank Park

The 2022 World Series is arranged to resume with Game 3 in between the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night in Philadelphia. The 2 clubs split Games 1 and 2 at Houston’s Minute Maid Park and now the series, which has actually ended up being a best-of-five, shifts to Citizens Bank Park. Here’s how to enjoy Game 3.

Alas and alack, it appears the weather condition might disrupt Game 3. There is rain in the projection throughout the night and continuing into Tuesday early morning. First pitch is arranged for 8:03 p.m. ET and MLB has actually not yet offered any updates about the status of Game 3. Here’s the per hour projection through CBS News Philadelphia:

MLB makes all weather-related choices in the postseason and the league’s top priority is playing a continuous 9 innings. They wish to preventing beginning the video game, then require everybody to endure a hold-up(s) in the future. They likewise choose not to begin video game late during the night, after half the nation has actually gone to sleep.

If the Astros and Phillies do play Game 3 on Monday, it might look like Game 5 of the NLCS, when the Phillies and Padres began on time and the 2 groups played through rain the majority of the video game, consisting of heavy showers sometimes. There have actually been 2 weather-related posts ponement this postseason (Games 2 and 5 of the ALDS in between the Yankees and Guardians).

Coincidentally enough, Philadelphia was the website of MLB’s many notorious World Series weather condition dilemma. Game 5 of the 2008 World Series was suspended due to rain in the middle of the 6th inning. The Rays had actually simply connected the video game 2-2 in the previous half-inning while the clubs played through a rainstorm. Afterward, then-commissioner Bud Selig stated all World Series video game needs to be a complete 9 innings.

“I was not going to allow that to happen,” Selig informed the Associated Press when inquired about the possibility of a rain-shortened World Series. “I have to use my judgment. The game would have been in a rain delay until weather conditions allowed us to continue. And that might have been 24 hours or 48 hours or who knows?”

Game 5 continued the next day and the Phillies clinched their very first World Series champion because 1980 thanks to Pedro Feliz’s seventh-inning RBI single. Whenever the Astros and Phillies play Game 3 of this year’s World Series, righties Noah Syndergaard (10-10, 3.94 PERIOD) and Lance McCullers Jr. (4-2, 2.27 PERIOD) will be the beginning pitchers.