(Reuters) - Baseball fans in Alaska were fuming after a traditional midnight game, held every year without lights during the twilight hours of the summer solstice, was postponed for the first time because a visiting California team complained it was too dark.
Umpires suspended the Alaska Baseball League amateur game with the score tied 1-1 in the 10th inning at about 1:30 a.m. local time (0930 GMT) Wednesday, about three hours into the contest.
The game between the home team, Goldpanners of Fairbanks, Alaska, and the Waves of Oceanside, California, resumed on Wednesday evening, and the Goldpanners ultimately won 2-1.
The "Midnight Sun Baseball Game" has been played in Fairbanks each year since 1906 on the night of the summer solstice June 21, when the glow from the year's longest day allows the game to continue into the wee hours without artificial light.
Fairbanks is slightly south of the Arctic Circle, so the sun does set briefly on the summer solstice. But even then, it dips just below the horizon, providing some light to see.
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