An already busy late-season schedule just got busier.
Just short of five hours after the scheduled first pitch of the Cubs/Pirates game Monday night, the word came that there was too much rain and the game would have to be postponed.
This is unfortunate, not only because the teams will now have to squeeze an additional game into a tight September schedule, but because the teams had played four innings to a 1-1 tie. Under current baseball rules, if the game had gone one more inning and stayed at that score, it could have been suspended and completed before Tuesday's game instead of having all its stats washed out and having to start over.