The Toronto Blue Jays have been playing well in their new home away from home at Sahlen Field in Downtown Buffalo. Toronto had won two of three in Buffalo entering Saturday's contest with the Tampa Bay Rays, and the offense has been playing its best of the season. The team has averaged over nine runs per-game at Sahlen Field, so the hope was to keep the bats going on Saturday night.
Mother Nature ended up stopping the Blue Jays' hot bats, they hope momentarily. Heavy rains halted play in the fourth inning and eventually led to a postponement of the middle game of a three-game series between Toronto and Tampa Bay.
Here's the rain at Sahlen Field. #BlueJays and #Rays in a delay in the 4th inning. pic.twitter.com/eLx37LDRZz
— Brian Koziol (@BrianWGR) August 16, 2020Water starting to accumulate in the outfield. It's has been raining for about 20 mins at Sahlen Field. #BlueJays #Rays pic.twitter.com/6dVes4BUGs
— Brian Koziol (@BrianWGR) August 16, 2020One item that the team never has to deal with at home is a rain delay. Rogers Centre's retractable roof obviously would've come in handy on Saturday night in downtown Buffalo.
The only scoring of the game before the rain came was when Tampa Bay scored on a solo home run in the third inning as Austin Meadows went deep off of Blue Jays starter Chase Anderson to put the Rays in front 1-0.
Saturday's game will resume on Sunday at 1:07 p.m. at Sahlen Field. The suspended game will be played until completion as a nine-inning game. The regularly scheduled game will begin 30 minutes after the completion of Game 1 and will be a seven-inning game.
