Power outage briefly delays Yankees-Rays game
St. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The New York Yankees-Tampa Bay Rays game was delayed for 18 minutes with two outs in the top of the fifth inning because a bank of lights lost power at Tropicana Field.
The Rays said lightning appeared to strike the domed stadium, causing a brief outage to a cluster of lights along the first base line.
The umpires huddled with managers Joe Girardi and Joe Madden before players from both teams were pulled off the field. Play resumed with the Rays leading 4-2.
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