Cubs' series-opening game with Cardinals starts in weather delay

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LOUIS — The first of four games between the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs" >Cubs</a> and the division-rival Cardinals started in a delay Monday night, with "potential impending storms" in the area of Busch Stadium.</p><p>Word of the delay came more than a half hour prior to the originally scheduled first-pitch time of 6:45 p.m.</p><p>The Cubs, in the middle of a two-city road trip against NL Central opponents, started the day seven games back of the division-leading Brewers.</p><p></p><bsp-listcarousel class="PageListE" data-module data-column-count=3 data-hide-authors="true" data-hide-categories="true" data-hide-dates="true" data-hide-descriptions="true" data-show-loadmore="true" ><a class="AnchorLink" id="list-c90005" name="list-c90005"></a><div class="PageList-header" > <div class="PageList-header-title-wrap" > <div class="PageList-header-title"> <a class="" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs" target="{borderColor=#dfdfdf, count=14121, pageCount=4707, pageNumber=1, titleUrl=https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs, inverseColors=false, footerBgColor=#000000, title=Latest on the Cubs, bodyFont=font-3, showListNumbers=false, imagePositionHorizontal=null, rteBodyFont=font-3, headerBottomBorderColor=#111010, subTitle=null, stickyHeader=true, listTitleColor=#000000, tableCellBorderColor=#ccd1d5, relatedListFont=font-1, hideAuthors=true, tertiaryTextColor=#6c6c6c, buttonHoverTextColor=#ffffff, tableFont=font-1, pagination=[{body=[Next Page], href=?p=2, _template=/link/Link.hbs, contentId=null, pianoSectionSlug=null, target=null}], carouselAutoPlay=false, promoTitleFont=font-2, ctaButtonText=[], primaryTextColor=#2a2a2a, buttonTextColor=#ffffff, linkTextColor=#1a1a1a, hideTitles=false, footerLinkColor=#ffffff, carouselSpeed=null, buttonHoverBgColor=#a91d23, rteHeadingFont=font-1, secondaryColor=#656565, hideCategories=true, _template=/page/list/includes/PageList-header.hbs, font3=Arial, font4=Source-serif-4, ctaUrl=null, hideImage=false, footerLinkHoverColor=#d3242c, _styledTemplate=/page/list/PageListE.hbs, hideAudioPlayback=false, pullQuoteIcon=[{image=null, narrowImage=null, _template=/image/Image.hbs, alt=null}], secondaryTextColorInverse=#ffffff, description=[], listColumns234=null, showSecondItemMedia=false, tertiaryTextColorInverse=#ffffff, footerTextColor=#ffffff, hideDescriptions=true, headerSecondaryBgColor=#000000, items=[{type=Image, media=[{alt=DUSTY BAKER, ampLink=null, _styledTemplate=null, _template=/image/Image.hbs, image={src=https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/95/42/8eeff5d34794ae2e541e0bf0c2e5/rockies-cubs-baseball.jpg, width=2464, height=1648}, narrowImage={src=https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/95/42/8eeff5d34794ae2e541e0bf0c2e5/rockies-cubs-baseball.jpg, width=2464, height=1648}}], categoryUrl=https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs, timestamp=1785192540000, _styledTemplate=null, imageAlignment=null, isFeatured=false, authors=[{authorPageUrl=https://chicago.suntimes.com/barry-m-bloom, ampLink=null, _styledTemplate=null, jobTitle=[], _template=/author/byline/AuthorByline.hbs, bio=[], media=[], name=[{items=[Barry M. 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