Brewers-Rays restart time: Live rain delay updates from Tampa Bay

The Tampa Bay Rays were scheduled to host the Milwaukee Brewers at 4:10 p.m. ET on Saturday, May 10, but the game will "start" in a rain delay.

Tampa won the first game of the series, 4-3, on Friday, with the final game currently scheduled for Sunday afternoon at 1:40 PM at Steinbrenner Field. As for Saturday's game, there is currently no official updated start time as inclement weather passes through the area.

Expect new information from the Rays soon.

Update at 6:00 p.m. ET: The game is back in a rain delay in the bottom of the fifth inning. No information has been provided about a restart time.

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Brewers-Rays rain delay pushes back start time for May 10 showdown

Milwaukee plans to start Tobias Myers on the mound for this road affair, while the home team Rays will start Taj Bradley. Both teams need a win in the worst of ways. Tampa is fourth in the AL East at 17-21, quickly losing ground in a competitive division. The Brewers, at 19-20, are third in the NL Central, a full three games behind the first-place Cubs.

This is the first rain delay in Rays franchise history. The Rays historically plays under a dome at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, but the roof took damage in Hurricane Milton, which led to this season being spent at a minor-league ballpark in Tampa. To commemorate this historic moment (in just), the Rays gave fans in attendance a free poncho. This is a great way to make the most of unfortunate circumstances.

Here is the tarp coming on the field for the first time ever at a Rays home game.

Update: The official start time for Saturday's ballgame is now 4:35 PM E.T., so the two sides avoided an extended setback. No changes are expected to the starting lineups.

Prior to Friday's win over Milwaukee, the Rays were coming off a series sweep against the visiting Philadelphia Phillies. As for the Brewers, well, Pat Murphy's team has lost five of its last eight. Neither team has performed up to expectations this season, although neither was truthfully billed as a contender in the preseason.

Still, the Rays feel like the more notable disappointment. Milwaukee has bled a lot of talent over the past couple offseasons, so regression was inevitable. Tampa actually has a solid rotation and a lot of promising talent on paper, but the pieces haven't come together in the AL's toughest division. Maybe this is the series that puts the Rays on the right track.