The Cincinnati Reds and Arizona Diamondbacks were forced into a rain delay around 4 p.m. ET on June 14 during the series finale at Great American Ball Park, with Arizona leading 4-3 in the top of the ninth inning.
Stadium scoreboards warned of approaching weather around 3:40 p.m., and rain arrived about 20 minutes later while the Reds had two men aboard in the bottom of the eighth inning. Noelvi Marte struck out to end that frame, and after the inning the grounds crew spread the tarp over the infield and the game was put on hold.
By 4:45 p.m. the tarp remained over the infield and team and stadium officials had not provided a timeline for a restart. A 4:50 p.m. update listed a planned resumption at 5:10 p.m., but no confirmation that the game ultimately restarted was included in the available information.
The interruption left a one-run game unresolved in its final inning — the most immediate consequence for both clubs and the crowd. The delay came after the Reds had pushed two runners aboard in the eighth, a chance to tie the contest that ended with Marte's strikeout and the tarp going on while the outcome was still very much in doubt.
Context for the matchup was available from a separate betting preview: listed Andrew Abbott as the Reds' starter and Zac Gallen as the Diamondbacks' starter; also listed Arizona at 35-35 and Cincinnati at 33-36 for the season. Those notes and the pitching lines — including Gallen's 3-5 record with a 5.43 ERA and 1.55 WHIP and Abbott's 4-4 mark with a 4.10 ERA and 1.41 WHIP — served as background to what had been a competitive afternoon before the weather interruption.
The practical immediate question for fans and the teams was whether the game would resume later the same day. At 4:50 p.m. officials expected a 5:10 p.m. restart, but with the tarp still in place at 4:45 p.m. and no other timeline issued, the day’s schedule and the game's final result remained in limbo.
For attendees, the delay turned a late, one-run inning into a waiting game; for bettors and standings watchers, the unresolved ninth meant a pending decision in two clubs hovering around.500. Names like Eugenio Suárez were part of the conversation among fans as the stadium cleared rain from seats and umbrellas came up, but the score and the eighth-inning sequence were the operative facts when play stopped.
The most consequential unanswered question now is straightforward: did the game resume at the expected 5:10 p.m. restart, and if not, when will the remainder be played? At the last update the expected restart time stood at 5:10 p.m., leaving the completion and official result contingent on whether the weather permitted play to continue later that evening.
