Overview
- The game started late after a roughly 59-minute rain delay and then was stopped for about 15 minutes after the sixth inning when thick fog made the baseball impossible to see.
- Players and managers told umpires they could not track fly balls, and the crew suspended play until visibility improved so the teams could safely resume.
- Umpires announced the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system was not operational and MLB’s Gameday pitch-tracking could not report pitch velocities briefly during the fog, affecting replay and data functions.
- Once play resumed the St. Louis Cardinals completed a 3-0 win, highlighted by JJ Wetherholt’s leadoff home run and RBI hits from Iván Herrera and Alex Burleson.
- Fans in the sellout crowd turned the delay into a celebration with singing and a long beer snake, and the incident — echoing past Wrigley fog problems — may prompt scrutiny of how camera-dependent systems perform in extreme weather.