With Hurricane Hilary expected to make landfall in southern California on Sunday night, Major League Baseball moved up games for all three teams in the region to Saturday to create split doubleheaders.
The NL West’s San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers and the AL West’s Los Angeles Angels are all in the middle of their respective home series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Miami Marlins and Tampa Bay Rays.
MLB preserved the originally scheduled afternoon games for Saturday, and moved up the Sunday series finale games to Saturday night. Tickets for the later games were honored.
The Padres started games at 3:10 p.m. and 8:40 p.m. The Dodgers started games at 3 p.m. and 9:10 p.m. while the Angels started games at 4:07 p.m. and 9:07 p.m. All games were Eastern standard time.
The National Weather Service projected Friday that, by the time Hilary reaches southern California it will have lost wind velocity and dropped below 74 miles per hour. Falling below that threshold would recategorize Hilary from a hurricane to a tropical storm, as long as wind speeds remain above 39 miles per hour.
Hilary is expected to bring a deluge of rainfall to southern California, with three to six inches expected across the region as well as southern Nevada. Some isolated pockets are expected to get up to 10 inches of rain.
No tropical storm has hit California since 1939.
• Brad Matthews can be reached at bmatthews@washingtontimes.com.
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