🗞️ Story file #579
ALCS Game 4 postponed due to rain, series resumes Saturday
Oct 16, 9 PM ET to Oct 18, 11 AM ET
- 9outlets carried it
- 🫏4 · 3 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 1.6 dayson the front pages
- 9front pages at once, at its peak
- 20 sof TV captions
- 1 of 2parts of a saga
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 16, 9 PM ETfirst on a front page: Tampa Bay Times
- Oct 17, 7 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
- Oct 17, 4 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News
💬 quoted: “It never cleared out”
✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Chicago Tribune (2 wordings): “Petey Halpin’s go-ahead HR flips ALCS Game 3, lifting Cleveland Guardians to 3-2 win and 2-1 series lead” → “ALCS Game 4 postponed by rain, with the Tampa Bay Rays-Cleveland Guardians series set to resume Saturday”
- NBC News (2 wordings): “Halpin’s go-ahead homer flips Game 3 as Guardians beat Rays 3-2 for 2-1 AL Championship Series lead” → “Guardians beat Rays for AL Championship Series lead”
- Reuters (2 wordings): “ALCS Game 4 between Guardians, Rays postponed to Saturday” → “Rainout forces Guardians, Rays to play ALCS straight through to finish”
- Tampa Bay Times (2 wordings): “Rays-Guardians ALCS Game 4 won’t start on time, but MLB still hopeful • Sports comment” → “Rays-Guardians ALCS Game 4 postponed until Saturday • Sports comment”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating
The Guardian
Halpin’s two-run homer lifts Guardians past Rays for 2-1 ALCS lead Oct 15, 5 PM ET
AP
ALCS Game 4 postponed by rain; Rays and Guardians to resume series Saturday Oct 17, 10 AM ET
NBC News
Halpin’s go-ahead homer flips Game 3 as Guardians beat Rays 3-2 for 2-1 AL Championship Series lead Oct 15, 6 PM ET
USA Today
Rain delays Rays vs. Guardians ALCS Game 4 Oct 16, 10 PM ET
Chicago Tribune
Petey Halpin’s go-ahead HR flips ALCS Game 3, lifting Cleveland Guardians to 3-2 win and 2-1 series lead Oct 15, 5 PM ET
Reuters
ALCS Game 4 between Guardians, Rays postponed to Saturday Oct 17, 1 AM ET
Tampa Bay Times
Rays-Guardians ALCS Game 4 won’t start on time, but MLB still hopeful • Sports comment Oct 16, 9 PM ET
Fox News
ALDS postponement leaves Guardians fans upset over changed game assignments Oct 17, 4 PM ET
New York Post
ALCS Game 4 gets postponed after heavy rain hits Cleveland: ‘It never cleared out’ Oct 17, 12 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- RAIN POSTPONES GAME 4 OF ALCS TO LATER TODAY CNN, 20 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
🗣️ names in it: Cleveland Guardians Tampa Bay Rays Shawn Armstrong Nick Martinez Petey Halpin MLB
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Rays-Guardians ALCS
ALCS Game 4 postponed due to rain, series resumes Saturday (this story)
Oct 16, 9 PM ET
Rays beat Guardians in Game 5 to take 3-2 ALCS lead
Oct 18, 2 AM ET