First came the rains, then came the booms and the bangs.
The Cincinnati Reds decided to fill the time during Friday night’s rain delay with a fireworks show that had been originally scheduled to take place postgame.
The Tigers were leading the Reds, 5-3, in the top of the seventh inning when a rain storm halted play. About a half-hour into the delay, as Detroit SportsNet’s Jason Benetti, Johnny Kane and Bobby Scales were taking live rain-delay questions, the lights in Great American Ball Park went out — and the fireworks started going off.
“This is smoke ’em if you got ’em,” Benetti quipped.
Scales, on the Tigers’ broadcast, suggested the Reds might’ve hastily moved the fireworks show into the rain delay because of a city ordinance on how late fireworks can go off in Cincinnati.
The Tigers-Reds rain delay was expected to extend to just before 11 p.m.
The fireworks show lasted about 10 minutes, ending shortly before 10 p.m. One of the rain-delay questions from a viewer asked the Tigers broadcasters to rate the fireworks show.
“Best one,” said Kane, “I saw today.”
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This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: During Tigers-Reds rain delay, fans treated to a fireworks show
Reporting by Tony Paul, The Detroit News / The Detroit News
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