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Originally Posted by DG
Was it last year that Selig decreed that a WS game would not be called due to rain. I believe it was raining cats and dogs until the home team tied the score and then it was suspended.
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2008, Phillies/Rays. And it was the visiting team (Tampa Bay) that tied the score by hitting a ball that skidded through an infield that should've been covered much earlier, thus effectively taking the call out of the umpires' hands.
Selig then said he wouldn't have let the game be called early due to weather anyway. As a Phillies fan, I thought the whole night was horsecrap -- fortunately, it didn't matter as the Phillies closed out the suspended game 2 days later.