It's a little weird, Paul Molitor said after the game, to sit around for two hours and then find out you've won a ballgame. But that's what happened on Monday, even if the weather came as a bit of a surprise.
"When [umpire crew chief Mike Everitt] stopped it, they thought it was going to be a quick one," Molitor said. "That was the hope anyway. And it just kept raining."
After two hours of steady, though not pouring, rain, the umpires called both managers together and discussed their options. "You try to play [complete] games, and that's the right thing," Molitor said. "I don't have any problem with that."
Brewers manager Craig Counsell, his team trailing 7-4, understandably didn't want to give up on the game, and there was some discussion, Molitor said, of whether the game could be resumed in light rain. Molitor resisted, especially since radar indicated that the rain would grow heavier within the hour.
"I wanted to make them aware, not because of the score, that you ask players to sit for 2 1/2 hours, then go out there in those conditions, starting up in the rain — it didn't seem very logical to me," Molitor said, and everyone finally agreed. "They were trying got make the best decision for the integrity of the game and for the players' safety."
The six-inning game was the first in Target Field's six-season history, and the first for the Twins since a 4-1 loss in Baltimore on May 6, 2009.
Roster move
Taylor Rogers was optioned to Class AAA Rochester after the game, with Fernando Abad due back tomorrow from the Dominican Republic, where he attended his grandmother's funeral.
