There won’t be any cold-weather concerns this year, either in Toronto’s climate-controlled Rogers Centre or in Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium.
But on Oct. 22, 1997, 28 years ago tonight, the “boys of summer” shivered through a World Series game colder than any other.
Game 4 of the 1997 World Series between the host Cleveland Indians (now the Guardians) and the Florida (now Miami) Marlins began with a first pitch temperature of 38 degrees along the lakeshore.
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That was the coldest World Series game in history, particularly so for the Marlins, who had hosted the first two games of the series with first-pitch temperatures of 84 and 78 degrees, respectively.
Snow flurries even fell during parts of the game, the first time that happened at a World Series game since 1979.
Cleveland bashed its way through the cold to a 10-3 victory, but ended up losing the series in a nail-biting Game 7 in Miami four days later.
Second base umpire Ken Kaiser bundles up against the near freezing temperatures during the first inning of Game 4 of the World Series featuring the Cleveland Indians and the Florida Marlins at Jacobs Field in Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 22, 1997.
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Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been covering national and international weather since 1996. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Reach out to him on Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook.