Bally Sports Ohio's Jim Day spoke before Monday night's series opener against the Giants and San Francisco about the challenges the Cincinnati Reds getting from Arizona to the Bay Area, and play-by-play announcer John Sadak and analyst Jeff Brantley discussed the situation further during the 1st inning of the broadcast.
Day explained before the game that the Reds' chartered plane encountered mechanical issues that forced the party to sit on the plane on the tarmac in Arizona for more than eight hours. The plane departed, according to Day, at about 2:30 a.m. Pacific, and landed after 4 a.