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Today’s story is about a baseball game that was played in a snowstorm.

It was opening day of ’03, and Rodrigo Lopez was on the bump for the Orioles as they took on a 22-year-old CC Sabathia and the Indians at Camden Yards.

It was a beautiful afternoon at the start of the game, but by the bottom of the second, light snowflakes started to fall onto the field.

While seeing snow during a baseball game is pretty rare, it has definitely happened before, and initially the conditions were totally playable.

But when Rodrigo returned to the mound for the top of the third, things started getting out of hand.

As the snow intensified, Ellis Burks came up to bat, and by that time nobody could see shit.

It’s honestly bizarre that the game was stopped right then and there - somebody could’ve definitely gotten hurt.

Burks somehow put together a six-pitch at-bat and hit a ball into right field.

It was called fair, but even if you watch the replay it’s extremely hard to see where the ball actually went.

The “single” scored a run and gave the Indians a 2-1 lead over the birds.

But afterwards, it became clear that the ball had actually gone into the stands and bounced back onto the field before it was called “fair.”

Of course, these were the days before you could challenge a call - so even though the call was unequivocally wrong, the run was valid.

Ultimately, after a brief “snow delay”, the O’s won the game in extras on a knock by Gary Matthews Jr. in the 13th inning.

BASEBALL TRIVIA

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Today's winner is:

Pompeyo Davalillo aka “Yo-yo” had a short-lived big league career - just one season.

Standing at just 5'3", he is the second-shortest MLB player of all time, tied with a few others behind Eddie Gaedel.

He played 11 seasons in the minors and 14 more in the Venezuelan League.

In ‘06, Yo-yo was inducted into the Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame.

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BASEBALL TRIVIA ANSWER: Vida Blue