WASHINGTON -- Baseball players and fans are familiar with rain delays. Even, in recent times, replay review delays. The Washington Nationals and New York Mets waited through a lights delay on Friday night.
Max Scherzer's first start for the Mets -- against the Nationals, the team he helped with the 2019 World Series, no less -- was held up for 14 minutes because the artificial lights at Washington's stadium did not turn on fully.
Players had taken the field at Nationals Park in anticipation of a scheduled 7:05 p.m. start for the teams' second game of the season.