Rained Out in Anaheim for the First Time Since 1995

Well, this is interesting.

You could see how hard it was raining on ESPN. Some brave fans were just hanging out sopping wet. Heh, ridiculous

At the O.C. Register, "Angels rained out at home for the first time in 20 years":

ANAHEIM – Mike Scioscia, the longest tenured manager in the majors, has seen plenty, but he hadn’t seen this.

The Angels had a home game postponed by rain on Sunday night, the first time since June 16, 1995, five years before Scioscia took over.

The teams will play a split-admission doubleheader on Monday, with the first game at 2 p.m. and the second at 7 p.m. It will be the first doubleheader at Angel Stadium since 2003, when they made up a game that had been rained out in Kansas City.

The last time the Angels made up a home rainout with a doubleheader was Aug. 5, 1988, against the Chicago White Sox.

The rare July storm delayed the 5 p.m. start of the game for about 2 ½ hours before it finally called. The grounds crew had spent about 45 minutes in the outfield, but they couldn’t clear enough of the standing water.

“Unfortunately you never really know how your drainage system works until you get enough water,” Scioscia said. “There is so much standing water in that outfield it has nowhere to go… The field was unplayable with no way to remedy it.”

Both teams will simply move Sunday’s scheduled starters to Monday’s first game, with Hector Santiago starting for the Angels against Boston’s Eduardo Rodriguez...

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