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MLB WALLOPED BY WET WEATHER

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April showers — and snow, sleet and wind — are wreaking havoc on Major League Baseball. Six more games were wiped out Sunday, running baseball’s total number of postponeme­nts to 21 just two-and-ahalf weeks into the season. It’s baseball’s highest number through the end of April since it had 26 in 2007, and there are still a couple weeks to go. The last time six games were postponed in a single day was Sept. 12, 2008, and that situation was partly caused by hurricane Ike. There was more dicey weather in the forecast for Monday, and Boston postponed its annual Patriots Day game for the first time since 1984. “If it was up to me, no one would play north of Atlanta or east of Colorado in the first few weeks, but that’s not going to happen,” Braves reliever Peter Moylan said. This season began on March 29 for MLB’s earliest start ever, excluding special openers at internatio­nal sites.

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