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CLEVELAND -- Major League Baseball is hoping it can play Game 2 of the World Series on Wednesday night despite the rain.MLB senior vice president Peter Woodfork said officials were prepared to have the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians play through light rain.If its light and ... we dont think its going to get any heavier, I think wed be apt to play in that, he said about 2 1/2 hours before the scheduled 7:08 p.m. start. The fields in good condition. The tarps been on. The outfield can take a lot of water.Woodfork said Commissioner Rob Manfred will examine the situation at about 6:15 p.m., in time to notify teams whether to have their starting pitchers start to warm up.MLB on Tuesday moved up Wednesdays start by an hour to 7:08 p.m., and light rain started to fall at about noon.Accuweather said that if rain tracks to the north, there will be a spot shower or two during the game, but that if rain remains over the area, it could be steady and cause delays.Right now we have a light rain, light drizzle, spitting out probably until about 10, Woodfork explained. That being said, its probably come a little heavier than we expected already. So, were confident, but things can change, and well have to read and adjust.While regular-season games can be shortened because of bad weather as long as the losing team has completed at least five innings, a rules change approved in 2009 mandates that all postseason games and regular-season tiebreakers must be played to conclusion at the ballpark where they began.The change came a few months after Game 5 of the 2008 World Series, which became the first World Series game to be suspended with the score tied at 2 in the sixth after a steady rain turned the field into a soggy mess. The game resumed two days later, with the Phillies edging Tampa Bay 4-3 to clinch the title.Cubs manager Joe Maddon, who managed the Rays in 2008, remembers the game being very awkward to play.The rain was horizontal, Maddon said a few hours before Game 2. It was freezing. There was actually standing water on the field. They wouldnt even call an infield fly rule because the wind was blowing so much. It was really an abnormally difficult night to play baseball.Thursday is a scheduled off day before the Series is set to resume at Chicagos Wrigley Field, which last hosted the Series in 1945.We want to do all we can to avoid breaking the game up. That being said, you cant control the weather, Woodfork said. I think they understand here in Cleveland that the weather can be a little dicey, so if something happens and they need to come back tomorrow, again, thats unfortunate, we dont want that to happen, but realistically we cant control the weather.Nike Air Max 270 Heren Sale . Listen to the game live on TSN Radio 1050 at 7pm et. The Raptors traded Rudy Gay, Quincy Acy and Aaron Gray to the Sacramento Kings on Monday, in exchange for Greivis Vasquez, John Salmons, Patrick Patterson and Chuck Hayes. Nike Air Max Kopen . -- Nate Robinson has played for seven teams, so beating one of them is no longer a rare occurrence. http://www.airmaxkopennederland.com/uitverkoop-air-max-90.html . 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In the end, tournament favorites such as Team EnVyUs, OpTic Gaming and FaZe Clan all found themselves in the losers side of the bracket, giving way to multiple surprises rising through the ranks in the fight over the $100,00 purse. Heres how the day unfolded.Cloud nine livesFive times Cloud9 have played to the last round in a best-of-five match during MLG Las Vegas. Four times the team led by Patrick Aches Price has walked away with a victory, including three such matches during Day 2. As a result, Cloud9 is guaranteed at least a top-three finish at the first major LAN event of the year. Many things have to come into effect in order for a team to win four consecutive Round 5s in a given tournament, but first and foremost on the list would be stellar Search and Destroy play, something Cloud9 have excelled at thus far.Cloud9 have put together a 6-3 mark in the pivotal game mode, most notably rallying to win a critical Round 5 Search and Destroy against Allegiance in the upper bracket semifinal. With an upper bracket final against Rise Nation looming on Sunday, Cloud9 may need to go the length of the series in order to advance yet again. And you can bet theyll need to rely on their Search and Destroy in order to advance to the grand finals.Open bracket teams makes instant impactAt this point, it wouldnt be a stretch to suggest MLG Las Vegas sported the most dangerous open bracket to date in Call of Duty, as the four teams who survived the 160-team bracket managed to win nine games in pool play, with three of those teams advancing into the upper bracket portion of the championship bracket. European stalwarts Splyce and eLevate as well as North American favorites Evil Geniuses made their mark on pool play, but it was the performmance by relative newcomers Enigma 6 (known for their Halo team) that had everyone talking on Saturday.ddddddddddddFinding themselves slotted into the dreaded Group B which sported icons in the scene such as OpTic Gaming and Rise Nation, Enigma 6 immediately announced their presence in the group, sweeping every team they faced en route to a perfect 3-0 record in the pool, and 9-0 map count. Jordan General Holloway and Nicholas Proto Maldonado were brilliant throughout the three games, routinely leading the lobby in slaying. While Enigma 6 would lose their opening match in the winners bracket to Allegiance, they appear to have a favorable spot in the losers bracket and would need just two wins to make it to the losers bracket finals. Not bad for a team few expected to make it out of the open bracket.Favorites fallPerhaps it was the lack of practice time or maybe just overconfidence, but the two best teams throughout Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Team EnVyUs and OpTic Gaming, struggled mightily in the first major LAN tournament of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Projected to at least make it into the upper bracket portion of the championship bracket, neither team would win more than one game in their respective pool, setting themselves up to have to traverse the rest of the tournament through the lower bracket.Uncharacteristically poor performances by their respective leaders, OpTics Seth Scump Abner and EnVyUs Jordan Jkap Kaplan have seemingly handicapped the teams as neither has strung together a series of strong performances. Given the skill level of each player, its only a matter of time until they right the ship, but the Green Wall nor the Boys in Blue can afford to have a repeat performance of Day 2 if they have any hope of making it to the grand finals.The final day of the tournament starts on Sunday at 1pm ET. ' ' '