http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/07/19/more-dollars-than-sense-in-atlanta-makeup-game/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:04:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/07/19/more-dollars-than-sense-in-atlanta-makeup-game/#comment-12335 Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:40:18 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=12614#comment-12335 On the Wednesday before the makeup game, the reason given for the night start on Thursday was that the Braves had a night game on Wednesday and they were not to enthused about flying in and playing a day game against the Cubs who were waiting here for them.
The bigger problem came in when the rains came, after the logical finishing time of a day game, and delayed the start of the make-up game.
There were more variables at play than just Cubs marketing.

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