Halloween was a big night in the U.S. Virgin Islands, as the territory's government was finally able to lift its evening curfew five weeks after the islands were devastated by two Category 5 hurricanes, Irma and then Maria, which battered the islands with high winds and substantial rainfall. A lack of electricity across the islands, combined with debris in the roads, made driving after dark too dangerous, which led the government to impose a curfew that as recently as last week was still 7 p.m. local time.
The Virgin Islands aren't a baseball hotbed like their neighbor to the west in Puerto Rico, but St.