September 2008. The powerful Hurricane Ike was ravaging the Gulf of Mexico. Right on the same path Ike traveled was Houston, Texas. The Chicago Cubs were set to visit the Houston Astros at Minute Made Park in mid-September, right when Ike was going to hit eastern Texas dead on.
Two of the games between the Cubs and Astros would be relocated to Miller Park in Milwaukee on the 14th and 15th. The first game was to be played at 7:05 on Sunday night with game two set for 1:10 on Monday afternoon. It was an already unusual thing to see a game at a “neutral” sight; it does not happen very often.