CLEVELAND (AP) — Pregame festivities for the Guardians’ home opener were ceremonial and celestial.
The first pitch for Monday’s gave between Cleveland and the Chicago White Sox was upstaged by the solar eclipse, which briefly turned day into night at Progressive Field and made an annual rite of spring seem almost surreal.
An out of this World … Series.
Two hours before making his home debut as Guardians manager, Stephen Vogt stood on the grass near the third-base line and gazed at the spectacle in the sky while wearing special solar-viewing glasses.
Hardly your usual opener.
Cleveland’s players joined Vogt on the field to take photos and gawk at the alignment of earth, moon and sun — an event that more than lived up to its hype.
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