{"id":2608,"date":"2010-05-27T01:04:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T06:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2010-06-09T02:05:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T07:05:47","slug":"blackout-at-wrigley-field-dodgers-at-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/blackout-at-wrigley-field-dodgers-at-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackout at Wrigley Field: Dodgers at Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight Wrigley Field experienced a blackout for only the third time since lights were installed during the 1988 season. The first two blackouts were during the 2003 season.\u00a0 The first was May 6 and the second was June 24 that year. I was out of town for both of those games so this was the first time the lights have gone out while I was in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2609\" title=\"P5260267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/andrew\/uploaded_images\/2010\/06\/P5260267-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P5260267-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P5260267-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P5260267.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Beg, Borrow and Deal<\/span><br \/>\nFor the second night in a row, the Cubs drew less than 36,000. Thus, tickets were easily available outside of Wrigley Field. I bought a ticket from a broker for $10 that was technically a \u201ccomp\u201d ticket (meaning the price on the ticket is $0.00). The cost of the seat from the Cubs would have been $47.04.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Los Angeles Dodgers at Chicago Cubs<\/span><br \/>\nThe game was proceeding excruciating slow when the lights went out in the top of the 4th inning at 8:25 pm. After the 18 minute delay the game resumed at 8:43 pm. After a lengthy 3 hours and 42 minutes the Dodgers finally defeated the Cubs 8-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight Wrigley Field experienced a blackout for only the third time since lights were installed during the 1988 season. The first two blackouts were during the 2003 season.\u00a0 The first was May 6 and the second was June 24 that year. I was out of town for both of those games so this was the first time the lights have gone out while I was in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Beg, Borrow and Deal<br \/>\nFor the second night in a row, the Cubs drew less than 36,000. Thus, tickets were easily available outside of Wrigley &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[170,45,44,258],"tags":[336,364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}