The players went off midway through the eighth over with thunder bubbling up around the stadium, came back for two balls and went off again as the rain fell heavily.

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Rain came down heavily a half hour at a time, then pulled back into a silvery sky of fast-moving, fuzzy-bottomed clouds.

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With rain starting to fall heavily, Gattis put Atlanta up 5-3 with a bases-loaded single off Greg Burke.

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Hereford resident councillor Polly Andrews said the rain had been coming down heavily.

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The first session was also heavily interrupted by lashing rain.

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