Plans in baseball rarely go according to, well, the plan .

Just ask the folks who planned on getting to the Detroit Tigers game Sunday, Sept. 21 by 1:40 p.m. – only for the Tigers to see rain in the forecast ( actual rain and not a metaphor, despite the gloomy outlook this past week) and move up the start of their 2025 home finale against the Atlanta Braves by 30 minutes.

Or you could ask the Tigers, who played through rain anyway over the first couple innings, even before the original start time. And then another downfall just before the seventh-inning stretch. And then a 27-minute weather delay . All for a 6-2 loss to the Braves – as losses go, it was the Tigers’ sixth straight, ninth in 10 games and their 18 th in 25 tries since Aug. 23.

Y’know, back when the Tigers had a

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