We had quite a bit of discussion here about the Cubs being forced to play a Sunday night game in Chicago (a game that ran 3:31, incidentally) and then a Monday afternoon game in Pittsburgh that started only 14 hours after the Sunday game ended.
Those game times were on the schedule when it was released last September and doing that is within the rules, as teams can schedule a short turnaround like that if:
- The flight between cities is not more than 90 minutes, and
- The game is either the team’s home opener or a holiday
The Memorial Day game in Pittsburgh met both those criteria.