Mizzou vs Vanderbilt: The delay and the homer that wasn’t.

I’ve covered a lot of sports games over the past 5-6 years. Heck, I’ve covered a lot of strange Mizzou sports events over the past four years. What occurred Friday night was one of the wackiest, most chaotic sports games that I’ve seen, bar none, without a doubt.

Fittingly enough, the biggest moment of the game, I couldn’t see. The ending and delayed start time are what have me typing this up long past midnight in the dark hallows of my apartment, and what kept me and my amazing Rock M photographer, Dan Murphy, at Taylor Stadium past the midnight hours. For Missouri baseball, coming into this game alone, it’s been a year that’s brought three game cancellations due to rain and a 95-minute light delay.

Mother Nature decided it wanted to add a couple more pages to this repetitive cycle. In a game that was originally scheduled for a 6 p. m.

first pitch, it became 7 p. m. due to incoming rain.