PHOENIX -- Leave it to our Milwaukee group to bring snow to Arizona.
This afternoon’s Brewers vs. Rockies game was canceled due to heavy rains in the third inning, but the story wasn’t the rain. It was the deluge of pea-sized hail that sent fans scurrying to the very few covered areas inside Maryvale Baseball Park.
In my 10 years of Spring Training trips, I’ve never seen a game called for rain, and I’ve certainly never seen the skies open up and drop hail like today. The problem, according the people in the press box, wasn’t the rain -- which eventually stopped. It was the grounds crew, who couldn’t unfurl the tarp before the infield got completely soaked.
Lets hope for better weather for tomorrow night’s matchup against the Rangers in Surprise.
Andy is the president, publisher and founder of OnMilwaukee. He returned to Milwaukee in 1996 after living on the East Coast for nine years, where he wrote for The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau and worked in the White House Office of Communications. He was also Associate Editor of The GW Hatchet, his college newspaper at The George Washington University.
Before launching OnMilwaukee.com in 1998 at age 23, he worked in public relations for two Milwaukee firms, most of the time daydreaming about starting his own publication.
Hobbies include running when he finds the time, fixing the rust on his '75 MGB, mowing the lawn at his cottage in the Northwoods, and making an annual pilgrimage to Phoenix for Brewers Spring Training.
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