The 2020 MLB season has already been far from typical. There have been mass postponements due to team-wide coronavirus outbreaks in what was supposed to be a 60-game season. There’s a universal DH now, runners on second base to start extra inning and doubleheaders are seven-inning games. Again, it’s different.
Oh, and, apparently, drone delays are a thing.
During Tuesday’s matinee game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Minnesota Twins at Target Field, players were called to their dugouts when the umpires noticed a random drone flying over the stadium.
It’s unclear who was controlling this drone, but the game was stopped and went into a drone delay out of an abundance of caution for the players. After all, ask Trevor Bauer about the dangers of drones.
We have a drone delay at Target Field pic.twitter.com/qLHAKWGSds
— CJ Fogler #BlackLivesMatter (@cjzero) August 4, 2020
We are in a…drone delay.
We don't know. AL baseball is weird.
— Pirates (@Pirates) August 4, 2020
While we're apparently in a, uh, drone delay, please enjoy another photo of the Boomstick at work. #MNTwins pic.twitter.com/36Dl7AHKh4
— Minnesota Twins (@Twins) August 4, 2020
That delay lasted about four minutes, so it wasn’t exactly a prolonged stoppage.
But this 2020 MLB continues to be weird.
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