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Ann #solar eclipse Time lapse from progressive field! @NASA pic.twitter.com/2DzQSRp4WI
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Baseball sky like you've never seen before 😍 @NASA #solar eclipse pic.twitter.com/BxQPURO9GY
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You never know what you'll see at the stadium, right?#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/I9fqdx5BmV
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CLEVELAND — It's something that hasn't happened here in 218 years.
No, it's not a warm-weather home opener for the Guardians (which happens at least a few times every 218 years), it's a total solar eclipse. And on Monday, for the first time in the history of his three great spheres: the sun, the moon, and baseball, a major league game coincided with the total orbit of this amazing celestial event.
Indeed, the MLB game in question started after the eclipse had passed, as was the case with the Rangers-Astros game in Arlington, Texas, when a totality event was also underway. However, given the close proximity of the 3:15 p.m. ET solar eclipse in Northeast Ohio to the 5:10 p.m. start time for the Guardians vs. White Sox, Progressive Field was and provided a wonderful and unusual arrangement of basses.
“It feels really surreal,” Guards left fielder Stephen Kwan said. “I feel like it was all planned out. It's a really great experience.”
Both teams had to adjust their pregame plans because of the solar eclipse, holding on-field batting practice earlier than usual (noon for the Sox and 1 p.m. for the Guardians). This gave players from both clubs plenty of time to gather on the field and, as planned, view the stands behind home plate and the sky, where the moon eclipses the sun (after all, astronomers have I found that it made much better predictions than List).
“2 hour hold [during the pregame routine] “It's obviously weird, almost like a rain delay,” White Sox starter Eric Fedde said. “However, there are many monotonous things in our lives, just playing and exercising every day. It's fun to talk about things like this.”
Chicago manager Pedro Grifoll calls himself a solar eclipse enthusiast (that is, someone who chases solar eclipses, in case you haven't just learned the term this week. ) was an example showing that it does not have to be. .
Before the match, Grifoll took a strangely resolute attitude, saying he was not a witness to history.
“I'll watch the video and see what it's like,” Grifol said. “But there's baseball. Maybe I shouldn't say that, but… [but] Family and baseball. People don't believe it, but I live it. That's all that matters. “
Ah, but given that the next total solar eclipse seen in the continental United States will be in 2044 (and even then only in Montana and the Dakotas), Grifoll's opinion is understandably 180. The degree has changed. After the White Sox lost 4-0 to the Guards, dropping to 1-9, Grifol told reporters he was watching an eclipse after all.
Steven Vogt, the Guards' first home opener manager, was among those inside the building to enjoy the eclipse with his family.
“I remember having classrooms like that in elementary schools in California,” he says. “I remember the store teacher brought out welding goggles and we all had to look at them.”
At Progressive Field, fans were not given welding goggles, but they were given certified shades to safely view the eclipse. NASA tracked the eclipse's path from Texas to Maine and provided telescopic footage of the eclipse on a giant video board above the left field bleachers.
And the eclipse turned out to be the perfect way to break into the new pennant area on the upper deck of the right field seats at Progressive Field. There, the infamous “shipping containers” have been replaced with a new standing room section and bar with perfect views. the sun and the moon.
As the moon hid the sun, there was a loud roar from the crowd gathered at the stadium (gates opened at 2 p.m.) and adjacent Gateway Plaza. Since the eclipse cannot be seen from most of the stadium, ticketed fans were able to temporarily leave the facility and take a peek at the peak.
“This is something very unique. It's something none of us have ever experienced,” Kwan said of the eclipse.
After almost four minutes of totality, the moon took a cheerful turn and the sun came out again on an unseasonably beautiful Cleveland day. It was the universe reminding us that it was time to play ball, but the impression made on those who witnessed the eclipse is sure to be a lasting one.
“Space is cool,” Fede said.
And of course, as Grifol would be the first to say, baseball is no different.