Looking at the storms that rolled through yesterday and all last night, there was a lot of water dumped on the field at CCP. Also consider that it has been raining most of today. I’m hearing rumors of Musikfest canceling shows, maybe even the whole day’s events due to flooding.
Per weather.com the hourly chance of rain:
3:00pm – 55%
4:00pm – 60%
5:00pm – 75%
6:00pm – 95%
7:00pm – 95%
8:00pm – 90%
9:00pm – 80%
10:00pm – 60%
11:00pm through 7:00am tomorrow – 40%
It looks like it’s going to rain today/tonight.
Looking at tomorrow:
10:00am – 50%
11:00am – 60%
12:00pm through 4:00pm – 70%
4:00pm through 12:00am – 40%
It’s probably going to rain tomorrow too.
Will we get baseball in either day? Doubtful, but I’ve seen stranger things happen before.
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A lot of jokes flying around about the possibility of a “Triple-header” being played tomorrow if today would be postponed.
Only 3 times in recorded MLB history has there been a triple header.
1. Brooklyn Bridegrooms vs. Pittsburgh Innocents (I almost thought that was the Steelers for a moment) on Sept. 1, 1890.
2. Baltimore Orioles vs. Louisville Colonels on Sept. 7th, 1896
3. Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Cincinatti Reds on October 2nd, 1920.
Triple headers are now prohibited under the current collective bargaining agreement, except… EXCEPT (ha ha ha) when the first game is a suspended game from a prior date.
Could it happen? It could. Looking at the weather forecast… I doubt it. But it sure would be fun.
As Monday is “Gobblers: What could have been” day, a triple header (as our friend Jimmy T reminded us last night) a triple in bowling is known as a Turkey. A triple header on Gobbler day? Will Matt Provence gobble on the air for each strikeout? Will the gobbler gobble over the PA system for the strikeout? Well if it were four strikes in a row that would be called a Hambone…
Ok, I’m getting past myself. Also saw that the Phillies signed pitcher Dave Bush to a minor league contract and intend to assign him to the IronPigs.
Bring your rain coat and see you at the park.
OinK!
noisenation.mlblogs.com 
Major League teams may have some obscure provision that allows a tripleheader (to me, the day they had to play single games in each of NY’s parks a few years back is far stranger), but if you think back to 2009 when Scranton lost a bunch of games to the horrible drainage system at PNC Field, there were no triple-bills set up for them, either home or away.
And, even if those missing games come back to significantly affect the playoff sitch for any of the teams, the I.L. probably still won’t order them to be made up.