\u201cTake Me Home, Country Roads\u201d<\/a> as the delay began. The early 1970s hit song has re-emerged during the World Cup soccer tournament, with U.S. players joining tens of thousands of fans in singing it at the end of matches.<\/p>\nThe rare Saturday night game at Wrigley started an hour late due to rain, then fog billowed in from the north starting in the second inning and got denser. <\/p>\n
The visibility became so poor that players said they would lose sight of the ball. They struggled and called out tracking fly balls, but there were no misplays.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, that was brutal,\u201d Cubs All-Star center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong said. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like that so, I\u2019ll just leave it at that. It was reminiscent of when like I was kid playing rec ball, soccer and stuff like that. Yes, you could see the ball hitting the bat, then not so much.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crow-Armstrong, a Gold Glove winner last season, somehow caught Masyn Winn\u2019s deep fly for the second out of the sixth. He drifted to the edge of the warning track, then dropped to one knee to do it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how he saw my ball, to be honest with you,\u201d Winn said. \u201cWhen the ball was getting above the lights, I just thought it disappeared. I was crazy to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Winn, the Cardinals shortstop, said he had a tough time seeing on the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight when they hit it, you could see kind of the direction of where the ball was going\u201d Winn said. \u201cAnd you know, as soon as it touched, like light level, it was gone. It was weird.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first I was like, \u2018Oh this is pretty damn cool.\u2019 It felt like this was a sick game to play on July 4. But by the end of it, I was, like, \u2018This is crazy.\u2019 Nobody could see anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Winn said Cardinals left fielder Lars Nootbar told him he couldn\u2019t see the hitters. Nootbar went on to catch Dansby Swanson\u2019s drive against the wall for the final out of the seventh after the fog subsided. <\/p>\n
Nootbar said he thought Swanson\u2019s ball was headed to the stands for a two-run homer, but the wind that had pushed the fog into the ballpark kept Swanson\u2019s fly inside as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m glad they didn\u2019t put more balls in the air, because we probably would have been in some trouble,\u201d Winn said.<\/p>\n
The umpires conferred with St. Louis manager Oliver Marmol and Chicago\u2019s Craig Counsell after the sixth. Then the delay was announced on video boards as the result of \u201cweather in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marmol said it was the right call.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a point there where no one on the field could see where the ball in play was,\u201d Marmol said. \u201cThankfully we got a groundball to short with some punch-outs involved, because it would have been very circus-like otherwise.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo good job pausing the game, letting (the fog) go through and then continuing, because that was different.\u201d<\/p>\n
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