The Cleveland Guardians and Tampa Bay Rays will have to wait a day to continue the American League Championship Series after Game 4 was postponeddue to rain in Cleveland.
The teams were set to face off Friday night at Progressive Field with an 8 p.m. ET first pitch. However, rain started coming down before the game and didn't let up. An hour before the game was supposed to start, MLB announced a rain delay. The grounds crew attempted to clean up the field by squeegeeing the warning track, but the tarp went back on as the rain kept falling.
About an hour after Shawn Armstrong was supposed to take the mound for Cleveland, the league decided to push the game back. The postponement affects Game 4 and Game 5 with the Guardians up 2-1.
Guardians manager Stephen Vogt expressed disappointment in the postponement.
"This is baseball. This is Cleveland. We're more than used to these kinds of days," he said, per USA TODAY Sports' Bob Nightengale.
Vogt's Tampa Bay counterpart, Kevin Cash, shared some thoughts as well, saying he was "not frustrated at all."
"The rain just didn't change. It never really cleared out the way they were hoping and it started getting later in the hour," he said, per reporter Ryan Bass. "MLB and I think both clubs did everything they could to try to get it in. It made the most sense at this point in this hour with no guarantee that there wasn't another band coming."
What is the new ALCS schedule after Game 4 postponement?
Below is the new ALCS schedule after Game 4 in Cleveland was postponed due to rain:
- Game 1: Guardians 7, Rays 3
- Game 2: Rays 3, Guardians 1
- Game 3: Guardians 3, Rays 2
- Game 4: Saturday, Oct. 17 – Rays at Guardians – 8 p.m. ET
- Game 5: Sunday, Oct. 18 – Rays at Guardians – 5 p.m. ET
- Game 6*: Monday, Oct. 19 – Guardians at Rays – 8 p.m. ET
- Game 7*: Tuesday, Oct. 20 – Guardians at Rays – 8 p.m. ET
* if necessary
When is Game 4 of ALCS now?
Game 4 of the ALCS has been pushed back a day and will be played in the same time slot that Game 5 was scheduled for on Saturday at 8 p.m. ET. Game 5 has been pushed back to Sunday at 5 p.m. ET.
Game 4 information
- Time: 8 p.m. ET
- Date: Saturday, Oct. 17
- Location: Progressive Field in Cleveland
- TV: TBS/HBO Max, TruTV, Univision
- Stream:Sling
Game 4 starting pitchers after postponement
Vogt said after the postponement that Armstrong will still be the starting pitcher for Cleveland in the now-rescheduled Game 4.
Cash confirmed that Nick Martinez will still be on the mound for the Rays to open Game 4.
"And then we'll just go day-to-day from there," he said.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: What is ALCS schedule after Game 4 postponed? New info for rest of Guardians-Rays series