They tried to wait out the rain in Atlanta more than 2 hours last night, but it didn’t let up, so the planned Reds-Braves baseball game was officially called off a little before 9:00. The Bravos quickly moved to get the contest in today, creating a split double-header for this afternoon and evening. The 2 games will now begin with a first pitch in the opener at 12:20, the second game starting at 6:05. We’ll have Game 1’s broadcast right after our noontime news block, and pregame coverage of Game 2 beginning at 5:35 this evening. It’s the Reds and the Braves, 2 games today, here on the Sports Voice, 103.9 WRBI.
A shocker’s reported by our colleague Rob Lafary in Tuesday’s Osgood Journal. He writes that past Batesville Bulldog Zach Britton’s professional baseball career has come to an end. Rob says Zach had played the last 2 years for the Toronto Blue Jays’ Class Double-A New Hampshire team, and had been with the Jays organization the last 4 years. But over the weekend, Britton, who’d only been out of high school 7 years, suddenly announced his “retirement” from baseball. Zach had reportedly played 55 games for New Hampshire this year, his batting average .205. He’d hit 4 homers, batted 28 runners in, stolen 5 bases, and scored 24 runs. He’d had some difficult injuries the last couple years, but there’s no official word on the record as to just why a 25-year-old is “retiring.”
The Big 10 says Indianapolis is going to keep hosting the conference’s football championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium, at least through 2028. That Tuesday announcement follows last fall’s title game, that was watched in person by a sold-out crowd of nearly 68,000. Indy’s had the game at Lucas Oil every year, since it began being played back in 2011.
The high school football season’s getting closer, with the Indiana Football Digest forecasting a bit. In Class 5A Decatur Central’s the early Number 1, but East Central’s Trojans rank 8th, moving up a class after those back-to-back 4A state championships. In 3A, the Digest sees sectional champion Batesville as tough, ranking the Bulldogs 8th, and Heritage Hills Number 1. And in Single-A, the sectional champs from North Decatur look strong, rated Number 2, just behind Number 1 South Putnam.