In recent years, a handful of Cubs games at Wrigley Field have been played in horrendous weather conditions, generally winter-like with cold temperatures, howling winds and consistent rainfall. One of them was particularly memorable, a comeback 14-10 win over the Braves in 2018. Another that you’re surely familiar with came last week against the White Sox. In both of those cases, makeup dates were difficult or impossible to arrange, so the games were played.
Back in 2003, though, this was generally not the case. MLB games simply weren’t played in weather like that. And Sunday, May 11 — Mother’s Day that year — on which scheduled to be the third of a three-game set against the Cardinals, dawned with weather conditions predicted to be much like those of the two games noted above.