(Mandatory Credit: Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports)
The severe weather that never arrived at Wrigley Field Saturday afternoon will, for a long time, make the KC Royals and Kris Bubic wonder what might have been.
It was at the end of the Royals’ half of the seventh inning that the fears of anyone watching this game were realized—the threat of imminent inclement weather forced the decision to tarp the field with Bubic closing in on a no-hitter.
That Bubic was dominant is an understatement. When the ill-timed delay came, he’d retired every one of Chicago’s 17 batters since issuing a walk to former Royal Frank Schwindel with one out in the first.