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Steady rain halts game after 5-run 5th inning for Rochester Jim Mandelaro • Staff writer • July 25, 2008 The talk was all about the weather during Thursday morning's home-plate meeting between managers and umpires at Frontier Field. "The umpires told us it's going to start raining around 11:30 or 12, so let's try to get five innings in and take our chances,'' Red Wings manager Stan Cliburn said. Mission accomplished, but at a cost. "We won the game but lost the field,'' Cliburn said. The Wings scored five runs in the bottom of the fifth, capped by Garrett Jones' three-run homer, and beat the Toledo Mud Hens 6-1 in a five-inning game played before 11,314 fans on "Camp Day" at rain-drenched Frontier. By the time the fifth inning ended, the dirt infield was filled with puddles. Umpires then called for the tarp, and ruled the... [read full story]
