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ALDS postponement leaves Guardians ticket holders upset with altered game assignments

Fans who bought Game 5 tickets hoping to see a pennant-clinching win will now attend Game 4 instead

Some Cleveland Guardians fans got screwed by the rain in more ways than one on Friday night.

For starters, Game 4 of the American League Division Series was postponed due to weather, but not until roughly an hour after the originally scheduled first pitch, meaning fans had traveled to the game and potentially paid for parking, food and merchandise.

The postponement, ironically, came despite the Guardians' X account posting "Rain or shine" an hour before first pitch. But the mess took a turn when the Guardians announced a slight change in the tickets for the game.

Fans sit in the stands after game postponement at Progressive Field.
Fans sit in the stands after the postponement of Game 4 of the ALCS between the Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Guardians in the 2026 MLB Playoffs at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, on Oct. 16, 2026. (Ken Blaze/Imagn)

The Guardians said that fans with tickets for Game 4 will be able to use them for Game 5, which is now on Sunday instead of the originally planned Saturday. Fans with Game 5 tickets "do not need to take action" and can go to the ballpark on Saturday night.

That seems fine at the outset until one realizes that fans who bought tickets to Game 5 in hopes of seeing a pennant victory will not be able to do so, since they are now going to Game 4 — Cleveland is up 2-1 on the Tampa Bay Rays.

"This is an insane way to handle tickets. Tomorrow should be Game 4 and Sunday should be Game 5. Tickets should be used in that order. This is gonna cause hella problems," one user on X wrote on Friday night.

Tarp covers the field at Progressive Field before Game 4 of the ALCS.
A tarp covers the field before Game 4 of the American League Championship Series between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, on Oct. 16, 2026. (Jason Miller/Getty Images)

"Imagine you thought you had tickets to a possible pennant-clinching win at home tomorrow night and they just casually change your tickets to Game 4. Totally ridiculous. Game is not of equal value," wrote another. "Tickets should remain assigned to their originally designated Game # in the series."

"I'd be a little annoyed if I bought what could be series ending tickets and got moved up a game," said one more.

On the flip side, if the Guardians win on Saturday, those who had tickets for what was supposed to be Friday's game could get quite lucky.

ALCS Game with tarp covering the infield
A general view of a tarp covering the field prior to game four of the American League Championship Series between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field on Oct. 16, 2026 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

If the weather holds this time around, first pitch is at 8:00 p.m. ET.

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