Patrick Wisdom’s would-be home run blown back into the ballpark in a Chicago Cubs’ loss was the latest episode of the changing winds at Wrigley Field.
Wind blows out toward the lake before Game 3 of the National League Championship Series at Wrigley Field on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017. Manager Don Zimmer was sitting in his cramped Wrigley Field office talking about lineup options before a game against the St. Louis Cardinals on Sept. 17, 1988.
“You think about it, absolutely,” he said Saturday. “Probably just putting your best team on the field trumps , but the longer you’re here you know just how much weather affects these games. Wind and Wrigley go hand-in-hand, a beautiful relationship forged by the ballpark’s proximity to the greatest of the Great Lakes and weather patterns that can shift quickly in Chicago. Trying to find the right combination of players to fit the quirky ballpark has been a task of Cubs executives forever.
As we know, the wind typically blows in at Wrigley during March, April and most of May, and blows out from June through early September when the weather heats up. But there are always exceptions to the rule, like Friday’s game, which also featured a fog rolling in for a few innings and ended in sunshine. It’s why we love Chicago.
The traveling secretary had pulled a prank on Piniella, who hadn’t actually read the story, by giving him some misinformation. Piniella laughed when he finally read it and apologized.The official wind stats — in/out/crosswind — began to be included in the daily media notes on a regular basis in 1999.
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