baseball day games make it easy on everyone

Out of the 10 Major League Baseball games on Thursday, only two were played at night.  That may strike you as odd since teams are more likely to draw larger crowds at night games.  It is after all, the reason night games were invented.

However, teams help each other out by scheduling day games at the end of a series to help the other team as they travel around the country.

For instance, the Atlanta Braves played a game at 12:40PM in Milwaukee on Thursday.  Their next game is in Philadelphia on Friday evening.  Getting out of Milwaukee by 4PM today helps give the team a break on Thursday night.  It is much better for Atlanta to get to Philadelphia at 7PM on Thursday night after the day game, rather than play the night game and arrive in Philadelphia at 1AM on Friday morning.

It also makes life easier for the stadium personnel as well.  One of the very interesting intricacies of baseball is the washing of the uniform.  The dirty uniforms that the Braves wore today in Milwaukee get shipped with the team to Philadelphia.  The players go to the team hotel, while the dirty uniforms head to the stadium and are washed by the Philadelphia Phillies guest clubhouse attendants.  This job can take a long time as they wash and dry about 40 uniforms of players and coaches.  They are then placed in the individual lockers in the opposing team clubhouse.

Braves catcher Brian McCann gets dusted up by Nyjer Morgan

These Philadelphia Phillies employees are quite happy that Atlanta's game in Milwaukee was an afternoon game too.