October 04, 2006
More on the Postponement
The Tigers-Yankees game will be made up at 1:00 PM Thursday. It seems there was poor communications about the cancellations.
"We wanted to get the game in. We thought we could," Solomon said. "The forecast indicated we could get in two, three innings tops and would have to stop against for an hour and a half to two hours. We didn't want to burn up two pitchers if we had that coming through. We reconvened, talked and we made a decision jointly with the commissioner."
Solomon said both teams were informed of the rainout at approximately the same time but not simultaneously because cell phones didn't work underneath the ballpark. He said Verlander hadn't warmed up fully.
"He did some soft tossing and some stretching, but he didn't do any real pitching," Solomon said.
I'm glad to hear they finally sorted it out! And I will be watching anxiously ;) thanks for the update.