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Rox-Bucs makeup game requires MLB input
- Updated: May 23, 2016
PITTSBURGH — With the Pirates and Rockies unable to agree on a makeup date for Sunday’s rainout at PNC Park, Major League Baseball intervened and set up Monday afternoon’s game, manager Clint Hurdle said.
So the two clubs returned to PNC Park on Monday morning, even though doing so resulted in the Pirates playing on 31 straight days and the Rockies 27. The Bucs’ next off-day is June 13, as their next originally scheduled off-day — June 9 — is being used for a makeup game at Coors Field.
Article V, Section C, Paragraph 12 states that no club can play more than 20 consecutive days without an off-day, unless: “(a) the open date is a road off-day for the visiting Club, and (b) the rescheduling does not result in the home team playing more than 24 consecutive dates without an open day.”
The CBA allows players to waive those restrictions, as they did Monday, so long as a majority of players from both teams vote to do so.
Typically, the clubs’ representatives …
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