Phillies Still In Rain Delay

So who had this in their pool? You know, the pool where you came up with the most Philadelphia way for the Phillies to lose. The Phillies might only be tied with the Rays in the middle of the 6th inning, but it sure doesn’t feel right.

The collective mood of Philadelphia changed when the Rays tied the game while playing a half-inning that certainly never should have been played (due to, you know, the driving rain and huge puddled on the ground). It changed when Joe Buck and Tim McCarver complained about how unfair it was to the Rays to play in this driving rain, since they steal bases; then the rain, of course, helped the Rays score the tying run. It changed when everyone realized they weren’t clinching the World Series Monday night.

Instead of Cole Hamels pitching another inning or two and handing it off to the bullpen, we now wait. Chances are they won’t play tonight and will play the final 3 1/2 innings on Wednesday, simply because of how disgusting it is outside right now. (39 degrees? Seriously?) Right now everyone in Philadelphia is kind of too shocked to figure out how to deal with it.

Conlin is good today, go have a perusal. For now there’s only one way I can describe this:

Ugh.