The Chattanooga Lookouts and the Biloxi Shuckers are set to play two – sort of – on Saturday.
The start of Friday night’s Southern League matchup in Biloxi, Mississippi, was delayed two hours by rain, and the Shuckers led 1-0 on Jake Gatewood’s first-inning sacrifice fly that scored Bruce Caldwell when inclement weather suspended play entering the fourth inning.
After a wait that included the tarp coming off the field and a scheduled resumption time of 9:30 p.m. CDT, according to the Shuckers’ Twitter account, rain returned and the game was suspended for the night.
As a result, the teams are scheduled to resume at 6:35 p.m. EDT Saturday. Set to follow is a previously scheduled game that will now be a seven-inning contest.
However, with Tropical Storm Barry spinning toward the Gulf Coast late Friday night and its effects expected to have an impact on southwestern Mississippi, Friday might have been only the start of a weather-altered weekend for the Lookouts and the Shuckers.