(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The city of Chicago and state of Illinois lifted all COVID-19 restrictions last Friday, and maybe nowhere was the relief more evident than at Wrigley Field over the weekend.
Cubs broadcaster Pat Hughes said the packed Wrigley Field crowd made the homestand against the St. Louis Cardinals exhilarating.
Hughes says the tone was set by Anthony Rizzo’s 14-pitch at-bat that resulted in a homer against the Cards on Friday.
“After he had fouled off about five or six in a row, the crowd gave him a standing ovation right in middle of his at-bat, which is something you almost never see in a baseball game,” he said.
While COVID precautions and vaccines got the state opened to 100%, not enough Cubs players have decided to be vaccinated to allow a loosening of MLB’s protocols.
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That means, while the Cubs are in New York this week, Pat Hughes will be at Wrigley to call the games.
“I tell people it’s been less than ideal to broadcast games from Wrigley on television monitors when the Cubs are in Pittsburgh or Cincinnati. But what in America or in the world has been ideal in the last 16 months?”
Rizzo, teammate Jason Heyward and others have decided not to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Said Hughes: “It’s their own business, and I would never tell somebody else how to live or how to make decisions regarding their own health and I’m not going to start now.”
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