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Related: About this forumEven the Cubs' ground crew is bush-league.
The difference is, their screw-up actually won a game for the beleaguered North Siders. Against the Giants, of course.
http://blog.sfgate.com/giants/2014/08/20/details-of-sf-giants-protest-rules-were-not-properly-applied/
Baer wouldnt provide specifics of the protest, but the issue concerning the Giants is that the umpires directed the grounds crew to cover the field and the grounds crew didnt comply.
The crew brought the tarp onto the infield crookedly, and the weight of the water from the rainstorm prematurely ended their efforts to cover it fully. As a result, areas around the plate and on the left side of the infield were exposed to more rain.
When the tarp was removed after the rain stopped, the infield was covered in water. After a 4-hour, 34-minute delay, umpire crew chief Hunter Wendelstedt deemed the field unplayable and called the game, giving the Cubs a 2-0 victory even though just 4 ½ innings were played.
Hoo boy. If they end up losing the division, or being shut out of $elig's goofy play-in game , by one game...
Auggie
(31,188 posts)Bush-league indeed
Auggie
(31,188 posts)CHICAGO -- The Giants' protest to Major League Baseball on Wednesday over Tuesday night's 2-0 loss to the Chicago Cubs was upheld. The game will resume at 2:05 p.m. PT on Thursday, with the regularly scheduled series finale to follow at 5:05 p.m.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/sf/san-francisco-giants-win-protest-over-rain-shortened-loss-in-chicago?ymd=20140820&content_id=90563200&vkey=news_sf
Right thing to do.
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)Everyone i know who is also a Cubs fan thinks the game should be concluded. Too much at stake for the Giants.
Auggie
(31,188 posts)there haven't been any sucessful protests since 1986!
Giants lobbied hard on this. This is the rule they pointed to that made the difference:
From the S.F. Chronicle:
(Joe Torre, MLB's executive vice president of baseball operations) said in a statement that the Cubs' "inability to deploy the tarp appropriately was caused by the failure to properly wrap and spool the tarp after its last use. As a result, the groundskeeping crew was unable to properly deploy the tarp after the rain worsened."
http://www.sfgate.com/giants/shea/article/Giants-win-protest-of-Tuesday-s-game-then-beat-5702167.php
Now win the dang game.
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)i still want the Cubs to win the game. Let's get serious!
What Theo is doing is very encouraging. Actually i'm ok if the Giants win this. Let's talk next season or the one after that.
GoCubsGo
(32,093 posts)They let one run in, but still managed to hold on. And, yeah, things have been very encouraging. I wish they'd hung onto Darwin Barney, but Javy Baez sure is doing well. I hope he doesn't turn into another Geovany Soto--great his rookie year. After that, not so much.
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)It's only been 105 years!
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)Auggie
(31,188 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)A surprising storm at Wrigley on Tuesday night caused a long delay because chief Roger Baird's working crew couldn't get the tarp which had become saturated with water as it was unfurled to cover the infield quickly enough. With field conditions unplayable even 4 1/2 hours after the rain stopped, umpires called the game in favor of the Cubs, who were leading in the bottom of the fifth inning. In a surprising but just turn of events, Major League Baseball upheld a protest by the Giants, and the teams resumed the suspended game Thursday. The Cubs won 2-1, but not before being thoroughly embarrassed.
Thoroughly, but not completely. That's if the Sun-Times report, which cites several unnamed sources within and outside the organization, is true:
Good thing they suck. Otherwise I'd have to root against them!