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On Monday night, we saw Puerto Rico advance to the finals in the World Baseball Classic in a thrilling semifinal win over the Netherlands. Tuesday brings us USA vs. Japan in the other semifinal (here’s how to watch the game), but there could be a snag: Mother Nature.
The visuals:
Good afternoon from Dodger Stadium. Light rain falling, but not expected to delay tonight's Japan-USA semifinal. BP in jeopardy though pic.twitter.com/4QcsfsDAsr
— Kyle Glaser (@KyleAGlaser) March 21, 2017
Japan playing catch in the rain. #wbc2017 pic.twitter.com/eNN6ynFHK6
— Dylan Hernandez (@dylanohernandez) March 21, 2017
As of this writing, the Weather.com hourly forecast shows it’s supposed to rain on and off pretty much all night. The game is set for 9 p.m. ET, which is 6 p.m. local time. At 6 p.m., there’s a 50 percent chance of rain. That 50 percent chance remains the same through the 8 p.m. before going down to 40 percent for the 9 p.m. hour and then back up to 50 percent.
Obviously, from these forecasts we can’t know how heavy the rain will be or how frequently it will be raining, but there’s an expectation that we’ll see plenty of rain throughout the night. Whether that results in a postponement, one delay, several delays or just playing the game straight through rain remains to be seen.
What we do know is that there’s almost certain to be some level of weather-related impact.
