Mets SNY booth eviscerates MLB for 'shameful' rain-delay chaos
Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling had their patience exhausted after a four-hour rain delay Saturday.
Once the Mets-Nationals game in Washington was finally suspended and made to be part of a split doubleheader on Sunday following hours of no communication to the fans, the SNY crew teed off on the league.
“It’s really a shameful episode on the part of Major League Baseball to permit this to happen,” Cohen fumed after the Nationals finally announced to fans that the game had been suspended, calling the delay “galling.”
The game started on time Saturday, albeit with some drizzle beginning and other precipitation in the forecast.
But the field was getting soaked by the third inning as rain poured into the dirt, leaving fans and the teams in limbo during the rain delay.
“The big issue really is the no communication. You’ve got these poor fans that are just sitting here wanting some kind of information that they’re getting now on the screen,” Ron Darling said as the notice of the postponement appeared on the screen.
The grounds crew apply a tarp to the field after a rain delay is called due to inclement weather during the third inning of the game between the Washington Nationals and the New York Mets Getty Images
Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez (4) and New York Mets manager Buck Showalter (11) discuss the field conditions following a long rain delay The Washington Post via Getty Im
“We just got this information that this game will be suspended and a part of a split-doubleheader tomorrow. That is unprecedented to have the completion of a suspended game as part of a split-doubleheader,” Cohen said.
“What I’m assuming is that for the last half hour, that was the communication between the Nationals, Mets and Major League Baseball to get permission to do this, which as far as I’m concerned has never been done before, that you’re giving a piece of a game to the fans as part of a split doubleheader as opposed to playing straight through and making it a single-admission.”
Hernandez said the decision to make the fans wait so long without an update was “unconscionable.”
The Post’s Mark Sanchez reported that fans eagerly chanted “Let’s play baseball” at 8:10 p.m. ET., but to no avail.
The postponement of Saturday’s game is announced on the big screen SNY
Keith Hernandez (l.), Ron Darling (c.) and Gary Cohen (r.) during Saturday’s SNY broadcast. SNY
The Mets restarted the suspended game with the Nationals Sunday at 12:35 p.m.
The split doubleheader means fans will have to leave after the resumption of the suspended game, and fans who had tickets for Sunday’s originally scheduled game will be permitted into the ballpark.
Source: New York Post
