Tampa Bay Rays-New York Yankees game briefly held up by a 'drone delay'
NEW YORK — 2020 keeps getting stranger.
Wednesday night's game between the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays was delayed for five minutes in the bottom of the first inning because a drone was flying over Yankee Stadium.
The Rays began leaving the field while looking up at the sky and both teams returned to their dugouts.
Players from both teams stared up trying to find the drone.
The umpires gathered near the third-base line and eventually met with both team's acting managers -- New York's Aaron Boone and Tampa Bay's Kevin Cash were suspended one game over a bench-clearing incident the night before -- before calling the Rays back out on the field and continuing the game.
It's actually the third time this season that an MLB game has been delayed because of a drone — and the second time the Rays were involved after their game against the Red Sox at Fenway Park on Aug. 13 was briefly stopped.
It seemed this season couldn't get weirder.
But it apparently can.
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