ARLINGTON, Texas — The Globe Life Field roof will likely be closed for Game 1 of the World Series between the Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks.
Major League Baseball introduced the choice about 5 1/2 hours earlier than the opener Friday night time. The forecast known as for temperatures within the low 70s with an opportunity of thunderstorms.
For the neutral-site 2020 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays, the Globe Life roof was open for Games 1, 2 and 4, and closed for Games 3, 5 and 6.
Arizona’s Chase Field in Phoenix additionally has a retractable roof, resulting in the potential of the primary all-indoor World Series.
While the house crew controls the roof determination through the common season, MLB makes the decision through the postseason.
Texas performed 11 video games with the roof open through the 2023 common season, the final on May 21. The season opener in opposition to Philadelphia on March 30 started with the roof open. But rain started through the third inning and the roof was closed through the high of the fourth.
The roof was closed for 3 of the Rangers’ 4 earlier postseason video games this 12 months, the exception for a 10-3 loss to Houston in Game 4 of the AL Championship Series.
Globe Life Field opened in 2020. There had been six regular-season video games with the roof open that season and 13 neutral-site postseason video games with the roof open.
There had been 11 video games with the roof open in 2021 and 16 in 2022.
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