Cubs 6, Nationals 3: A little something for everyone, part 2
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The Cubs defeated the Nationals 6-3 at Wrigley Field Tuesday evening and that’s all good, their third win in a row and fourth in their last five, and I’ll get to all the details in a moment, but first I’ve got something I need to say.
Baseball should not be played under the conditions it was played Tuesday night. A steady moderate rain fell for about the first six innings. This type of weather would have, 10 or 20 years ago, caused a postponement and they should have done that on Tuesday, given the weather forecast that proved to be correct. A split doubleheader could have been played today, Wednesday, as happened two weeks ago against the Dodgers. Maybe the Cubs were hesitant to do that because on the night of that postponement it barely rained, but. you know, conditions are different on different days.