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| Rain delay at Target Field. Sept. 21, 2016. |
Call it a bad omen for the season. Or just some bad luck that no one has any control over anyway. Maybe Mother Nature just got royally upset at the Twins over the winter and decided to get revenge.
Whatever it is, the rain that has plagued the Twins in 2016 is notable. No matter what you think about it. I've kept some of my own stats on the weather delays for the Twins this season (some credit goes to the Twins Game Notes, too). There's a lot of down time when you're waiting for baseball to resume at the ballpark.
Everything started with not one, but two, rain delays in Baltimore for the Twins Opening Day. It was a frustrating calamity of errors, really. All of us like to think we're weather experts, of course. The game didn't start for an hour and 40 minutes, because they were apparently waiting for some rain to pass. But the kicker was, it didn't rain.
It started raining once they finally started playing, then there was another hour-and-10-minute delay in the second inning. That kicked off the awful 0-9 start for the Twins, and things haven't improved much since. They had another delay in that series, too, just a brief one in the 7th inning.
By the numbers
Here are some of the stats I've kept during this rainy season:
10 games with rain delays at Target Field, plus three postponed games with delays
4 road rain-delayed games
17 total games with a rain delay this season
5 games where rain has fallen but not enough to delay the game (Two at home, three on the road)
2 split-doubleheaders
17 hours, 24 minutes of rain delay time at Target Field
7 hours, 28 minutes of rain delay time on the road
24 hours, 52 minutes of rain delay time this season... and counting, because the season still isn't over and rain is in the forecast for the weekend.
Longest delay: 3 hours, 15 minutes Aug. 19 in Kansas City. This was actually 3:03 for rain, plus 12 minutes for a light delay when the lights went out after midnight. You can't make it up.
Shortest delay: 25 minutes. April 7 in Baltimore in the 7th and May 25 at home v. Kansas City to start the game.
Postponed games have been delayed an hour, two hours and 30 minutes, and an hour and 35 minutes before the games were called for the night.
UPDATE:
There was another rain delay Friday. So, that means:
11 games with rain delays at Target Field, plus three postponed games with delays
18 total games with a rain delay this season
18 hours of rain delay time at Target Field
7 hours, 28 minutes of rain delay time on the road
25 hours, 28 minutes of rain delay time this season... and counting.
A notable season
See? I told you I had some time on my hands waiting for baseball. It's not that I love this kind of stuff, or hate the open-air stadium (as one Twitter follower asked). It just seemed that there were enough rain-affected games this season that it was worth digging into just how much time has been lost to falling rain. Turns out, it's about a day.
What's interesting is that Target Field has had 31 delayed games and 15 postponed games since it opened in 2010. The longest delay was three hours. So, of those 31 delayed games in seven seasons, 10 of them have happened this year. My writer-math says that's about one-third. Two of the postponed games have happened this year.
So, there you go. Just thought I'd share some of the fun-filled rain delay statistics from this season. Yes, there's nothing you can do about the weather. Yes, predicting weather is hard. Yes, we all think we're experts.
Enjoy.
Everything started with not one, but two, rain delays in Baltimore for the Twins Opening Day. It was a frustrating calamity of errors, really. All of us like to think we're weather experts, of course. The game didn't start for an hour and 40 minutes, because they were apparently waiting for some rain to pass. But the kicker was, it didn't rain.
It started raining once they finally started playing, then there was another hour-and-10-minute delay in the second inning. That kicked off the awful 0-9 start for the Twins, and things haven't improved much since. They had another delay in that series, too, just a brief one in the 7th inning.
By the numbers
Here are some of the stats I've kept during this rainy season:
10 games with rain delays at Target Field, plus three postponed games with delays
4 road rain-delayed games
17 total games with a rain delay this season
5 games where rain has fallen but not enough to delay the game (Two at home, three on the road)
2 split-doubleheaders
17 hours, 24 minutes of rain delay time at Target Field
7 hours, 28 minutes of rain delay time on the road
24 hours, 52 minutes of rain delay time this season... and counting, because the season still isn't over and rain is in the forecast for the weekend.
Longest delay: 3 hours, 15 minutes Aug. 19 in Kansas City. This was actually 3:03 for rain, plus 12 minutes for a light delay when the lights went out after midnight. You can't make it up.
Shortest delay: 25 minutes. April 7 in Baltimore in the 7th and May 25 at home v. Kansas City to start the game.
Postponed games have been delayed an hour, two hours and 30 minutes, and an hour and 35 minutes before the games were called for the night.
UPDATE:
There was another rain delay Friday. So, that means:
11 games with rain delays at Target Field, plus three postponed games with delays
18 total games with a rain delay this season
18 hours of rain delay time at Target Field
7 hours, 28 minutes of rain delay time on the road
25 hours, 28 minutes of rain delay time this season... and counting.
A notable season
See? I told you I had some time on my hands waiting for baseball. It's not that I love this kind of stuff, or hate the open-air stadium (as one Twitter follower asked). It just seemed that there were enough rain-affected games this season that it was worth digging into just how much time has been lost to falling rain. Turns out, it's about a day.
What's interesting is that Target Field has had 31 delayed games and 15 postponed games since it opened in 2010. The longest delay was three hours. So, of those 31 delayed games in seven seasons, 10 of them have happened this year. My writer-math says that's about one-third. Two of the postponed games have happened this year.
So, there you go. Just thought I'd share some of the fun-filled rain delay statistics from this season. Yes, there's nothing you can do about the weather. Yes, predicting weather is hard. Yes, we all think we're experts.
Enjoy.
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